Four migrants die trying to cross English Channel – POLITICO

Four migrants die trying to cross English Channel – POLITICO

PARIS — Four migrants died in French waters overnight on Saturday as they tried to reach a small boat setting off from the beach in the northern French town of Wimereux. Dozens were also rescued in the freezing waters by French rescue teams, according to local French media reports. One migrant was in critical condition … Read more

Free Surgeries Help Rwandan Women Overcome Pain, Stigma of Obstetric Fistula

Free Surgeries Help Rwandan Women Overcome Pain, Stigma of Obstetric Fistula

Free Surgeries Help Rwandan Women Overcome Pain, Stigma of Obstetric Fistula Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are … Read more

7 tripwires for Rishi Sunak as 2024 fires up – POLITICO

7 tripwires for Rishi Sunak as 2024 fires up – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Rishi Sunak will need to watch his step this year. The U.K. prime minister faces a succession of tripwires that will make his second (and potentially last) full year in the job the toughest yet. With MPs returning to parliament Monday and … Read more

The Week… The election campaign goes up a gear – POLITICO

The Week… The election campaign goes up a gear – POLITICO

Two of Westminster’s best-connected journalists, Sky News’s Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard, guide us through their predictions of how British politics will play out over the next seven days. This week: As well as election fever ramping up as MPs return to Westminster, they look at what else is in store for Rishi Sunak. … Read more

Rishi Sunak previously questioned controversial Rwanda asylum plan: BBC – POLITICO

Rishi Sunak previously questioned controversial Rwanda asylum plan: BBC – POLITICO

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak previously expressed doubts on a controversial program to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, the BBC reported on Saturday. Sunak when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer attempted to convince then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson to scale back a migration scheme before a deal was signed with Rwanda in April 2022, the … Read more

Westminster’s words of 2023 – POLITICO

Westminster’s words of 2023 – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — What’s in a word? Turns out, quite a bit. Westminster’s finest politicos found themselves frantically Googling this year as they tried to get their heads around a whole bunch of words they had never heard before. No, not “integrity,” “honesty” and “compassion” — … Read more

Labour Rush To Find Alternative Asylum Plan Before Rwanda Flights Take Off

Labour Rush To Find Alternative Asylum Plan Before Rwanda Flights Take Off

A spokesperson for the government told BBC reporters that Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has been working on strategies for Labour’s asylum policy. The new strategies set out to tackle the current asylum seeker crisis and application backlog in the UK. This news comes amid Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s relentless push for his emergency Rwanda … Read more

No ‘Firm Date’ For Stopping The Boats, Admits British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

No ‘Firm Date’ For Stopping The Boats, Admits British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has admitted there is “not a firm date” for delivering on his pledge to stop illegal migration via small boat crossings. Sunak promised to “stop the boats” when he became Prime Minister last year – one of his five key pledges. However, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the … Read more

UK Immigration Detention Report Highlights Release Surge and Concerns Over Treatment

UK Immigration Detention Report Highlights Release Surge and Concerns Over Treatment

A recent report from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) shed light on the trends and concerns within UK immigration detention centres during 2022. The report revealed that nearly 80 per cent of individuals held in these detention centres were released into the community instead of being deported, marking a significant deviation from the intended purpose … Read more

UK’s Sunak likens Italy’s Meloni to Margaret Thatcher – POLITICO

UK’s Sunak likens Italy’s Meloni to Margaret Thatcher – POLITICO

ROME — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likened Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Margaret Thatcher as he called on European leaders to channel the old Conservative British leader’s “radicalism” and challenge decades-old rules around refugees. “Thatcher understood that ideas are only important if they can be implemented,” Sunak said in a speech at the … Read more