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          Refugees

          The latest news and stories on refugees and asylum seekers

          Afghans who fled their homeland arriving at the UK's RAF Brize Norton in 2021. Reuters

          London must show it still has a moral dimension to its asylum policies

          CommentAugust 26, 2025
          A protester speaks to police at an anti-immigration demonstration in Epping, east of London. Reuters

          UK PM facing mounting discontent over asylum hotels and small boat crossings

          UKAugust 25, 2025
          A child asylum seeker after arriving at the port of Dover in the UK. PA

          UK plans to use AI to determine ages of child asylum seekers

          UKAugust 14, 2025
          Migrants coming ashore at Dover after being picked up from a small boat in the English Channel. Some can now be returned to France under the new arrangement. PA Wire

          UK ready to return migrants to France as 'one-in, one-out' deal comes into force

          UKAugust 05, 2025
          UK National Crime Agency officers with security forces in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region to target UK-linked people smugglers. Photo: NCA

          UK to recruit hundreds of officers to smash Kurdish smuggling gangs

          UKAugust 04, 2025
          Lee Boys who is protesting against housing migrants at the Britannia Hotel in London. The National

          UK on edge as protests build outside all-male migrant hotels

          UKJuly 31, 2025
          A youth walks on cracked and dried up soil at the Hawizeh marshes, which straddle Iraq's border with Iran, in the southeastern Maysan province on October 8, 2022. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

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          ClimateJuly 25, 2025
          Mariwan Jamal and Goran Assad Jalal have all been sanctioned by Britain for people smuggling. Photo: FCDO

          UK sanctions Iraqis in crackdown on people smuggling

          UKJuly 23, 2025
          Syrian internally displaced people in Homs, Syria. AFP

          UN refugee agency forced to make cuts as Syrians try to return home, top official says

          USJuly 16, 2025
          UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer,left, and French President Emmanuel Macron announcing the new deal on small boat migrants. Getty Images

          UK makes deal with France to deport migrants from small boats

          UKJuly 10, 2025
          Police and Immigration Enforcement officers detain migrants suspected of working illegally for delivery companies. Photo: UK Home Office

          Food delivery apps vow to tighten checks in crackdown on illegal migrant workers

          UKJuly 01, 2025
          Displaced Sudanese flee on animal-drawn carts following attacks in mid-April, blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur. Reuters

          More than four million refugees have fled Sudan war, UNHCR says

          MENAJune 03, 2025
          Shah Salim Sajjadi and Safiollah Mohammadi piloted a migrant boat in which a woman and child died. Photo: NCA

          Two Afghans jailed over migrant boat crossing that killed woman and child

          UKJune 03, 2025
          Mohammad Saaid Abdalnabi with his wife Reham and daughter Mirna in their apartment in Maryland. Nilanjana Gupta / The National

          From Syria's war to US uncertainty: A refugee caught in Trump's aid freeze

          USMay 30, 2025
          Zahir, an Afghan migrant who arrived in the UK by small boat, now wants to smuggle himself out of the UK for a restart. Photo: Supplied

          Quitting an 'island of strangers': How one Afghan is plotting to escape the UK

          UKMay 14, 2025
          Migrants on a small boat attempt to cross the English Channel. Getty Images

          UK urged to cut migrant hotel stays to free up overseas aid budget

          UKApril 17, 2025
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