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Top TikTok user was born in Senegal but has been in Italy since age one and says he ‘always felt Italian’ Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-born comedian who is the most followed TikTok user in the world, has been granted Italian citizenship.Lame, 22, has lived in Italy since he was one and has said he “always felt Italian”. He received his citizenship during a ceremony...

Petition accuses Frontex of violating European standards by using contractor that offers low wagesThe EU border agency Frontex has been accused of exploiting staff by using a contractor who it is claimed offers interpreters an effective wage of less than €2.50 (£2.11) an hour.The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the EU’s best-funded agency with a budget of €754m, is being petitioned by interpreters...

Annual intake could potentially rise from 160,000 to up to 200,000 places as businesses cry out for skilled workers Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, has vowed Labor “will always prioritise jobs for Australians” as the government eyes increasing the migration cap potentially to 200,000 places per year.A boost from the current annual...

Labor’s plan to tackle skills shortages would lift the annual migration cap from 160,000 to between 180,000 and 200,000. This blog is now closedGunman arrested after shooting incident at Canberra airport, with no injuries reportedGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastBowen says climate reforms will help Australian industry avoid carbon tariffsBowen says how this will work has yet to...

Twenty five people rescued in dangerous route frequently used by migrants seeking to reach the USSeventeen people died after a boat carrying dozens of Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of the Bahamas, authorities said on Sunday, as more Haitians attempt to reach the US to flee gang violence and poverty at home.Rescue teams recovered the bodies of 17 people including an infant and...

‘I went to help people,’ says Togolese boy, who was among 71 survivors rescued nine days after boat sank, killing at least 30The actions of a teenager from Togo have been lauded after video footage was published of him supporting a baby he saved from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea last week in which at least 30 people died.The 17-year-old, whose identity has...

Police in five European countries uncover criminal network believed to have smuggled 10,000 people in last 18 monthsA smuggling operation that police believe illegally sent 10,000 people across the Channel over the last 18 months has been uncovered after a coordinated operation across five European countries.In what is believed to be the biggest investigation ever launched to stop small boat crossings, hundreds of officers...

Incident marks one of the deadliest tragedies involving people attempting to cross US border from Mexico in recent decadesFull report: At least 46 people found dead in Texas trailer truckForty-six people were found dead in a sweltering tractor-trailer that was abandoned on a remote back road in San Antonio, Texas shortly before 6pm local time (12am GMT) on Monday.Sixteen people were taken to hospital,...

The truck was found next to railroad tracks in San Antonio’s Southwest Side, local media reportedSan Antonio: what we know about the trailer truck deathsForty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospital after being found inside a tractor-trailer rig on Monday on a remote back road in south-west San Antonio, Texas officials have said.The discovery may prove to be the...

Crowd of more than 500 enter border control area after cutting fence in attempt to cross from MoroccoEighteen people have died after a mass attempt to cross from Morocco into Spain’s enclave of Melilla.About 2,000 people approached Melilla at dawn on Friday and more than 500 managed to enter a border control area after cutting a fence with shears, the Spanish government’s local delegation...

Latest updates: foreign secretary says flights would deter people from crossing Channel while bishops in the House of Lords say policy ‘shames Britain’Liz Truss says Rwanda flights policy is ‘completely moral’From my colleague Aubrey AllegrettiAnd here are some more lines from Liz Truss’s interviews this morning.Our solution doesn’t make the EU any worse off. We continue to protect the single market, we’re supplying the...

Fresh attempts to stop Tuesday’s flight come as it emerges only handful of people could be onboardPlans to fly people seeking asylum to Rwanda on Tuesday will face two legal challenges on Monday amid growing concerns within government that only a handful of refugees could be on the flight if it is given permission to take off.A coalition of two refugee charities, Detention Action...

Covid, climate, stability and violence contributing to young people feeling pessimistic about future, survey of 15 countries suggestsAfrican youth have lost confidence in their own countries and the continent as a whole to meet their aspirations and a rising number are considering moving abroad, according to a survey of young people from 15 countries.The pandemic, climate change, political stability and violence have all contributed...

Prime minister says ‘Australia can’t be proud of’ detention of Nadesalingam family for four yearsComment: Nadesalingams are back in Biloela, but Australia’s unjust immigration system enduresGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingNothing is stopping the Nadesalingam family seeking permanent residency in Australia, Anthony Albanese says, following the Tamil asylum seekers’ return to Biloela.A full weekend of celebrations is under way in...

Wait time for 476 visa, for overseas graduates who want to work or study in Australia for up to 18 months, has blown out to 41 monthsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralia’s vast visa backlog is trapping engineering graduates out of the country for up to four years, compounding the skills...

High number of first 100 people to be sent to Rwanda are from Sudan, despite being small number of those crossing the ChannelThe Home Office is offering to fly asylum seekers back to the conflict zones they escaped from if they do not wish to be sent to Rwanda, the Guardian has learned.Documents issued to the first group of asylum seekers facing removal to...

Federico Soda said there needed to be ‘more condemnation’ of the conditions in state-run detention centres in LibyaEurope has been accused by a senior international official of acquiescence over the plight of thousands of migrants in Libya held in arbitrary detention in “deplorable conditions”.Federico Soda, chief of mission at the International Organisation for Migration’s mission in Libya, said not enough was being done by...

Group includes children and pregnant women as exodus from crisis-hit Haiti growsA ship carrying more than 800 Haitians who were apparently trying to reach the US has landed instead in central Cuba, in what is thought to be the largest group yet in a swelling exodus of people from the crisis-stricken Caribbean country.The Communist party newspaper Granma quoted Red Cross officials in the province...

Cards branded with Australian government’s Zero Chance logo and QR code to border force website distributed in IndonesiaFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingPlaying cards adorned with the Australian government’s Zero Chance campaign against “illegal migration” were distributed to refugee children in Indonesia by people trespassing on school grounds, the charity running...

Thousands of lives were saved by activists who have now beenput on trial in Sicily on trafficking chargesThe crew of the Iuventa rescue ship has been credited with saving 14,000 lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Yet far from being feted for their life-saving work, four of the rescuers appeared in court in Italy this weekend on charges carrying a possible 20-year jail sentence.“It feels...

Those fleeing combat were internally displaced 14.4m times, with biggest toll in sub-Saharan Africa, report revealsConflict and violence forced people from their homes a record number of times last year, a report has found, with sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of mass internal displacement caused by “huge spikes” in fighting.People fleeing violence were internally displaced 14.4m times in 2021, an increase of 4.6m on...

PM says he will ‘dig in for the fight’ with ‘leftie lawyers’ challenging government’s plan for refugeesBoris Johnson said 50 people have been told they will be sent to Rwanda within the next fortnight, and that he was ready to fight with “leftie lawyers” seeking to challenge the government’s plans for refugees.Under the £120m scheme announced last month, people deemed to have entered the...

Rights organisations say refugees going into hiding as Home Office admits LGBTQ+ people could face persecution in African countryMinisters’ threats to send unauthorised migrants to Rwanda are having a detrimental impact on the physical and psychological health of people seeking asylum, according to two major refugee charities.The British Red Cross and the Refugee Council, which worked with nearly 44,000 people in the asylum process,...

Home secretary attacks ‘specialist lawyers’ as Labour calls delayed plan little more than a press releasePriti Patel has admitted that it will take time to establish the government’s high-profile plan to send people who arrive in the UK without authorisation to Rwanda, amid growing suspicion that it will not solve the migration crisis in the Channel.In a further attack on the legal profession, the...