Shortly after the sun rose Wednesday over the Channel, a small black dinghy weighed down by eight migrants crossed into UK waters, the latest illegal arrivals via this contentious route.
At the conclusion of a fact-finding mission in Libya, the UN Human Rights Council declared that there are "reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed against Libyans and migrants throughout Libya1
Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited Sweden and Denmark last week in a bid to form an alliance with Copenhagen and Stockholm to push for tighter migration controls within the EU.
According to leaked reports across much of the British press, the UK government could be about to announce a deal to house at least 500 migrants on board a barge previously used by the Dutch government for similar purposes.
A typhoid outbreak among migrants housed on a decommissioned cruise liner last year has been found to have been caused by a sewage leak. The contaminated water made its way into freshwater supplies on board the stationary vessel, ac1