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          Migrants

          Police officers from several nations took part in the operation against the gang. Photo: Europol

          Police arrest Egyptian gang suspected of making €30m from people smuggling

          MENAApril 09, 2025
          Migrants, who were rescued at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard after their boat sank in the Mediterranean, arrive on a boat in the port of Garaboli, east of Tripoli, Libya, in April 2023. EPA

          Libya's suspension of 10 aid groups raises alarm in humanitarian community

          MENAApril 07, 2025
          US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at the Mariposa Nogales port in Arizona on March 15. AFP

          Travel advice for visitors to the US during the Trump era

          USApril 04, 2025
          Migrants crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy fibreglass boats of the type used by the people smugglers arrested in Libya. Photo: NCA

          Syrians who 'smuggled hundreds of people across Mediterranean' arrested in Libya

          UKApril 04, 2025
          Amanj Hasan Zada ran an operation in the city of Preston, north-west England, disguised as a barber shop, while co-ordinating small boat crossings. Photo: NCA

          UK police raid dozens of 'Turkish' barbers in money laundering crackdown

          UKApril 03, 2025
          An elderly woman among Rohingya Muslim refugees crossing from Myanmar to Balukhali Bazar, southern Bangladesh, in 2017. Getty Images

          Dementia on the rise among refugees and migrants

          HealthMarch 31, 2025
          Yvette Cooper, UK home secretary, right, greets Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, Iraq's interior minister, at the Border Security Summit in London. EPA

          UK summit targets Kurdish people-smuggler bosses

          UKMarch 31, 2025
          Migrants climb into the back of a lorry bound for Britain while traffic is stopped at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France. AFP

          UK border operations in France under strain as stowaway detections fall

          EuropeMarch 26, 2025
          Germany's potential new government is divided over plans to turn asylum seekers away at borders to curb illegal migration. EPA

          Border row delays formation of new German government

          EuropeMarch 25, 2025
          German police raid a storage facility where the gang's boats were stored. Photo: Europol

          Iraqi man arrested as police swoop on English Channel people smuggling gang

          EuropeMarch 21, 2025
          The moment Ahmed Ebid was arrested by National Crime Agency officers. Photo: NCA

          Egyptian ‘made $15.5m’ from people-smuggling operation, court hears

          UKMarch 18, 2025
          Migrants rescued from a boat crossing the English Channel land on Dungeness Beach in Kent, Britain on August 21, 2023. Migrants who use people smugglers are not customers but victims of an illegal enterprise that puts their lives at risk for money. EPA

          Legal migration is the best way to put people smugglers out of business

          EditorialMarch 14, 2025
          The operation is centred on a web of money exchanges in the lakeside town of Ranya. The National / NCA

          Kurdish people trafficker forced underground by crackdown

          MENAMarch 13, 2025
          Pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil in New York on Wednesday. AFP

          US government 'depriving Mahmoud Khalil of access to legal team'

          USMarch 12, 2025
          A group of migrants are brought ashore in the port of Dover from a Border Force vessel after being rescued in the English Channel. PA

          Rising backlash over surge in illegal Channel crossings under Starmer

          UKMarch 10, 2025
          Lorries carry Afghan refugees towards the Torkham border crossing after Pakistan ordered illegal immigrants to leave, in November 2023. AFP

          Pakistan and Afghanistan could be added to new US travel ban

          USMarch 07, 2025