A man was stabbed while making the journey across the English Channel in a small boat on Wednesday, as a record 450 migrants made the perilous journey to the UK.
The Home Office said the stabbing was an isolated incident, while police confirmed they were investigating.
A police representative told The Sun: "At 12.52pm on Wednesday, March 20, Kent Police received a report of a man with injuries consistent with stab wounds, following the arrival of a small boat at Dover Western Docks.
"The man has been taken to hospital with injuries which are not described as life-threatening and officers are carrying out inquiries to establish the full circumstances, including where, when and how the injuries were sustained."
It came on what is thought to be the busiest day of the year for illegal Channel crossings, with pictures showing large numbers of people being brought to shore by Border Force officials in Dover.
With the weather calm, the 450 migrants arrived on eight small boats on Wednesday, according to reports.
The total beats the previous high of 401 set on March 4.
A total of 3,529 migrants have arrived in the UK so far this year after making the cross-Channel journey from France, according to the latest provisional Home Office figures. A seven-year-old girl died this month after a boat in which she was travelling capsized.
Ministers are under renewed pressure to chart a course forward for the government's troubled Rwanda Bill, as a parliamentary stand-off over the legislation persists.
The plan to send some undocumented asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, was dealt another blow on Wednesday when peers inflicted a further series of defeats to the draft law.
MPs rejected a string of changes made to the draft legislation by the House of Lords earlier this week and ministers urged the unelected chamber to help get it on to the statute books.
But peers have again pressed their demands for revisions to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, including overturning the bid to oust the courts from the process.
James Cleverly, the Home Secretary, sought to blame Labour for the latest setback, claiming the opposition was seeking to thwart its passage.
He said: "While Labour and their allies try anything to delay, disrupt or destroy that plan, people are risking their lives in the hands of people who don't care if they die as long as they pay.
"The talking needs to end so we can get on with the job of saving lives and stopping the boats."
But his opposite number, Yvette Cooper, said the government would be bringing the bill back next week to "get on with it" if they were serious about implementing their plan.
"The half-a-billion-pound Rwanda scheme is a failing farce, which will only cover less than 1 per cent of asylum arrivals," she said.
"It is clearer than ever that Rishi Sunak knows this plan won't work and only sees it as a political gimmick to get what the former immigration minister described as 'symbolic flights off just before an election'."
100,000 migrants cross the Channel in five years - in pictures
The latest move means a continuation of the Westminster impasse known as parliamentary "ping pong", where the chambers bat one another's proposed changes to draft legislation back and forth.
There is little chance of the bill being cleared before MPs leave Westminster for the Easter break next Tuesday.
The bill and a treaty with Rwanda are intended to prevent further legal challenges to the stalled asylum scheme after the Supreme Court ruled the plan was unlawful.
As well as compelling judges to regard the east African country as safe, it would also give ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions.
But the Lords has again insisted on an amendment to restore the jurisdiction of domestic courts in relation to the safety of Rwanda and enable them to intervene.
Peers also renewed their demand for the bill to have "due regard" for domestic and international law and for Rwanda to be declared safe only when the protections in the treaty are fully implemented and while they remain in place.
Other changes included moves to reduce the risk of unaccompanied children being sent to Rwanda and a block on the removal of victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as those who have worked with the UK military or government overseas, such as Afghan interpreters.
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
Where to buy art books in the UAE
There are a number of speciality art bookshops in the UAE.
In Dubai, The Lighthouse at Dubai Design District has a wonderfully curated selection of art and design books. Alserkal Avenue runs a pop-up shop at their A4 space, and host the art-book fair Fully Booked during Art Week in March. The Third Line, also in Alserkal Avenue, has a strong book-publishing arm and sells copies at its gallery. Kinokuniya, at Dubai Mall, has some good offerings within its broad selection, and you never know what you will find at the House of Prose in Jumeirah. Finally, all of Gulf Photo Plus’s photo books are available for sale at their show.
In Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi has a beautiful selection of catalogues and art books, and Magrudy’s – across the Emirates, but particularly at their NYU Abu Dhabi site – has a great selection in art, fiction and cultural theory.
In Sharjah, the Sharjah Art Museum sells catalogues and art books at its museum shop, and the Sharjah Art Foundation has a bookshop that offers reads on art, theory and cultural history.
Dhadak 2
Director: Shazia Iqbal
Starring: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Triptii Dimri
Rating: 1/5
Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week
Volvo ES90 Specs
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Power: 333hp, 449hp, 680hp
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Why are asylum seekers being housed in hotels?
The number of asylum applications in the UK has reached a new record high, driven by those illegally entering the country in small boats crossing the English Channel.
A total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.
Asylum seekers and their families can be housed in temporary accommodation while their claim is assessed.
The Home Office provides the accommodation, meaning asylum seekers cannot choose where they live.
When there is not enough housing, the Home Office can move people to hotels or large sites like former military bases.
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
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