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At last! Hero Afghan pilot who fought Taliban is granted asylum in Britain

Exclusive: After five months of resisting this paper’s call to honour our debt to a war veteran who fought with UK forces, the government capitulates – and does the right thing

The Independent UK

‘Asylum seeker housing to cost £5 billion a year under Government’s Rwanda plan’

Housing costs will balloon as a ‘perma-backlog’ of asylum seeker cases grows, says Institute for Public Policy Research

Evening Standard

Labour’s plans to tackle small boat migrant crossings examined

Labour has said people smugglers are “running rings” around the government’s efforts to stem the tide of small boats crossing the Channel after six migrants died and more than 500 others arrived on UK shores on Saturday alone.

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Afghan intelligence analyst praised for ‘key role’ by RAF advisers facing Rwanda deportation

Analyst is a ‘talented and hardworking individual’ who is ‘a likely target for the Taliban’

The Independent UK

What are the Government’s plans to curb small boats crossing the Channel?

Rishi Sunak is in the process of bringing in controversial legislation to remove the incentive to make the crossings.

The Independent UK

Channel crossings: 100,000 since 2018 and new daily record set for 2023

It comes weeks after sweeping asylum reforms became law and while the Government fends off legal challenges over its Rwanda deal and migrant housing.

The Independent UK

Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis

The Government started recording the number of people detected crossing the Channel to the UK in 2018.

The Independent UK

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Sending UK asylum seekers to Ascension Island is a legal non-starter – if the government really is planning to do it

As part of attempts to prevent people crossing the English Channel in small boats, the UK government has been briefing the press that it is considering sending arrivals to Ascension Island – a remote piece of land in the Atlantic Ocean inhabited by fewer than 900 people. This idea was…

The Conversation

Britain is trapped in political purgatory – waiting for its undead government to fall

Policy that can’t work and laws written purely for campaign slogans are clear symptoms of a moribund regime, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Nigeria says 'all options are on the table' to resolve crisis in Niger

Nigeria slaps fresh sanctions on the military junta in Niger as it says 'all options are on the table' to restore President Bazoum to power, nearly two weeks after the coup d'etat. Also in this edition: Despite an opposition boycott, voters in CAR overwhemlingly endorse a new constitution, paving the…

France 24

Rwanda genocide survivors criticise UN court’s call to halt suspect’s trial

Felicien Kabuga, who is nearly 90 and has dementia, is accused of encouraging and bankrolling the Rwanda genocide.

Al Jazeera

I’m an immigration lawyer, and now the target of a Braverman smear campaign. It will backfire

The government has set the rightwing press on me because I have represented someone being deported to Rwanda, says immigration lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda genocide survivors criticize UN court's call to permanently halt elderly suspect's trial

Survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have criticized a call by appeals judges at a United Nations court to indefinitely halt the trial of an alleged financer and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health

The Independent UK

Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga should not face trial, UN judges say

Judges say Felicien Kabuga, accused of fuelling the 1994 genocide, is unfit for trial or alternative procedures.

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The Independent UK

UN appeal judges toss out plan to set up procedure to hear evidence against Rwandan genocide suspect

Appeals judges have thrown out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect after he was declared unfit to face trial

The Week

Ascension island: UK could send small boats arrivals to remote Atlantic territory

Ministers are considering sending asylum seekers to Ascension Island while their claims are processed in a “radical Plan B” should the Rwanda scheme be blocked again or scrapped altogether.

The National (Scotland)

UK's Ascension Island plan 'lifted from far-right extremist playbook'

THE Tories have been accused of lifting policies out of “far right playbooks” amid reports that they are planning to send asylum seekers to…

The Independent UK

Minister Robert Jenrick left red-faced as he’s challenged over claims about Labour aide

He refused to name lawyer he claimed was an adviser Sir Keir Starmer while spearheading opposition to the controversial Rwanda policy

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The Independent UK

Ascension Island part of ‘additional measures’ to tackle small boats – minister

Home Office minister Sarah Dines said times had changed since the original proposal to send asylum seekers to the remote island were rejected.

The Independent UK

Ascension Island: 800 residents, turtles but no hospital – where migrants could be sent if Rwanda plan fails

Ascension Island is situated about 4,000 miles from the UK and has only a few shops and basic amenities

The Guardian - UK

First asylum seekers arrive on Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset – as it happened

No 10 backtracks on ministers claim 500 asylum seekers could be on barge by end of week

The Guardian - UK

UK may try to send small boat arrivals to Ascension Island, minister confirms

Home Office minister says people could be sent to south Atlantic island if Rwanda policy fails

The National (Scotland)

Government 'considering sending migrants to remote island' as plan B to Rwanda policy

ASYLUM seekers could face deportation to a remote volcanic island in a “plan B” move by the UK Government should their Rwanda policy fail.

The Independent UK

Tories consider sending migrants 4,000 miles to Ascension Island if Rwanda plan fails

Advice sought on using remote British overseas territory – with a population of only 900 – in ‘offshoring’ plan

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak, beware: the Bibby Stockholm is becoming a monument to your incompetence

A vacant barge, no flights to Rwanda … beyond a certain point, even Tory supporters will grow tired of empty politics, says civil liberties writer Diane Taylor

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