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Dozens of lone Albanian child migrants have gone missing, a local authority has admitted.According to figures obtained via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, Kent County Council took in 197 unaccompanied child migrants from Albania between 1 January and 31 October of this year.Of those, 39 are missing.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Monday that the rising number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean is part of "hybrid warfare" waged by Russia using mercenaries as proxies on countries supporting Ukraine."I think it is now safe to say that the exponential increase in the migratory phenomenon departing from African shores is also, to a not insignificant extent, part of a clear strategy of hybrid warfare that the Wagner division is implementing, using its considerable weight in some African countries," Crosetto said in a statement.

Street demonstrations and transport strikes disrupted France again on Tuesday as another day of protests against a widely unpopular pension overhaul took place, in what appeared to be a last-ditch effort to pressure the authorities into scrapping the changes.Tuesday's protest, the 14th day of nationwide demonstrations since January, reflected the lingering anger at the government's decision to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62 a move that put France on edge and led to the biggest political threat in President Emmanuel Macron's second term.

Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said the Home Secretary's description of migrants as an invasion was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.Ms Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening.

The French parliament has voted to sanction a far-right MP with a 15-day suspension and pay cut after yelling "back to Africa" at a black colleague, an incident that drew outrage across the political spectrum.Published: 4 November 2022 08:30 CET Updated: 4 November 2022 16:54 CET Gregoire de Fournas, a newly elected member of the National Rally, has denied any personal racist attack in the outburst, saying he was referring to a ship carrying rescued migrants in the Mediterranean.

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"Getting your retaliation in first" is a familiar and often effective political tactic.Government ministers are anticipating record high net migration figures later this week.The figure is expected to be between 700,000 and 800,000.So, stopping students on short postgraduate courses from bringing their dependents to the UK will signal a willingness to get number down.

Rishi Sunak was unable to commit to bringing migration levels down by the next election as the Border Force rescued and brought ashore a group of people thought to be migrants.A Border Force vessel brought about 70 people, including some children, in to Dover, Kent, on Friday after a small boat incident in the Channel.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Home Secretary Suella Braverman is expected to reveal within weeks whether progress has been made in finding alternatives to hotels to house asylum seekers.

The home secretary has said she will not apologise for her language, after a Holocaust survivor criticised her for describing migrants as an "invasion".

Joan Salter, 83, confronted Suella Braverman during a meeting in her Fareham constituency on Friday.She said the home secretary's rhetoric reminded her of the language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.

A charity which supports torture victims has defied Home Office demands to delete a video of Suella Braverman being confronted by a Holocaust survivor over her language on immigration.Freedom From Torture has said the Home Secretary should be ashamed of her dehumanising rhetoric and it will not be pressured into helping her hide it by taking down the clip.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said it is incredibly important to listen to the Holocaust survivor who confronted Home Secretary Suella Braverman over her language.Mr Jenrick, who serves under Ms Braverman in the Home Office, said he backed his boss's point but appeared not to support her choice of words on immigration.

28 minutes ago28 minutes ago Addressing parliament for the first time as prime minister, the leader of a neofascist party said she "never felt sympathy or closeness to undemocratic regimes" and affirmed Italy's position as an EU and NATO member.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed parliament on Tuesday for the first time since she got the job.

ROME - Italian police on Wednesday arrested 29 suspected smugglers as they smashed a transnational operation that for years brought migrants illegally into Italy by sea and then moved them overland to northern Europe, authorities said.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says will introduce legislation to halt people from remaining in the UK illegally'.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to clear a backlog of asylum-seeker applications as he announced new measures aimed at curbing the number of people reaching the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel on small boats.

The latest proposals for reforming German citizenship law have triggered a controversial debate in Germany.But business experts are in support of the changes.Published: 29 November 2022 16:48 CET Updated: 30 November 2022 09:00 CET Last Friday, new details emerged of the German coalition government's plans to make German citizenship easier to come by.

Government plans to tackle small boat crossings will not solve the issue of illegal migration, former Prime Minister Theresa May has warned.Under the proposals, modern slavery victims would be "collateral damage" and denied support, she told MPs.Several other Tories also called for changes to the Illegal Migration Bill.

Suella Braverman has said she never ignored legal advice on keeping asylum seekers at an overcrowded immigration centre.The home secretary, who is facing calls to quit for the second time, said she knows the importance of taking legal advice and has worked hard to find accommodation to relieve pressure at Manston accommodation centre in Kent.

An alleged leader in a lucrative people-smuggling operation has appeared at the Old Bailey accused over the deaths 39 men, women and children in a lorry trailer in Essex.The Vietnamese nationals were found dead in the container which had been transported by ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet early on October 23 2019.