The Epping Forest District Council just outside London has won a court case to have asylum seekers temporarily removed from a hotel, which has drawn protests for weeks after a resident asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault.1
Britain has reached a new deal with the government of Iraq to allow for the return of irregular immigrants. The move is seen as part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's overall strategy to discourage small boat crossings to the UK -- b1
Ten of the 27 bodies retrieved on August 13 following a double migrant shipwreck off Lampedusa reached Porto Empedocle on Tuesday, August 19. Meanwhile, new migrant landings were reported on Lampedusa.
The 71 migrants who reached Salerno on August 14 and were quarantined over a suspected smallpox infection have all tested negative for the disease, local authorities said.
A collision between a bus and two other vehicles killed at least 76 people in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday. The bus was carrying Afghan migrants who had been living in Iran and were returning home to Kabul.