Refugees and asylum seekers

UK toughens asylum rules to discourage migration

Migrants including children picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel, are escorted off a UK Border Force boat upon arrival in Ramsgate, South-east England, on Feb 25.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Feb 27, 2026

A crowd gathering along the park connector off 8B Upper Boon Keng Road on Feb 26.

Near-blind Myanmar refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol

Mr Nurul Amin Shah Alam was almost blind and did not speak English.

Spain’s looming migrant amnesty strains services, sends applicants scrambling

People queue outside Pakistan’s consulate in Barcelona to apply for criminal record certificates, a document required for the migrant regularisation programme recently announced by the Spanish government, in Barcelona, Spain. January 30, 2026. Spain plans to grant legal status to about half a million undocumented migrants. REUTERS/Albert Gea

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Feb 17, 2026

A Spanish Coast Guard vessel tows a fibreglass boat with migrants onboard to the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on March 5, 2025.

‘ICE-style enforcement’: Nearly 70 groups slam proposed EU migration policy

A Spanish Coast Guard vessel tows a fibreglass boat with migrants onboard to the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on March 5, 2025.

US pays Afghans stranded in Qatar to repatriate, plan labelled ‘betrayal’

Special Immigrants from Afghanistan walk through the in-processing building after their evacuation at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, August 20, 2021. Picture taken August 20, 2021. U.S. Army/Sgt. Jimmie Baker/Handout via REUTERS

Bugs in food and sickness haunt immigrants held in Texas

A person holds a sign calling to protect, not detain, children as people gather during a demonstration and vigil outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Jan 28, 2026.

Sweden to make asylum seekers live in migrant centres in further tightening of rules

A general view of the migration agency detention center in Marsta, Sweden, June 20, 2017. Picture taken June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Johan Ahlander

Deaths in worst migrant boat disaster in Channel were avoidable, UK inquiry finds

People place candles around a list of names of migrants that have died since 1999 while trying to cross the English Channel, during a tribute to the 27 migrants who died when their dinghy deflated as they attempted to cross the English Channel, at the Richelieu Park in Calais, France, November 25, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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