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29 Apr 2024
Eleven weeks earlier than stated, the British Home Office seeks to launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK today in preparation for deportation to Rwanda.
28 Apr 2024
The United Kingdom's Home Office will launch an operation to detain asylum seekers in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, The Guardian UK reported on Sunday. The surprise operation would start a week earlier than expected across the UK. The Guardian reported that officials would begin to detain asylum seekers who show up for routine…
24 Apr 2024
KPMG has announced the cancellation of job offers to some foreign graduates in the United Kingdom (UK). KPMG took this step following the decision of the UK government to tighten visa rules for overseas workers in a bid to cut record immigration. The Financial Times reports that one of the UK’s biggest graduate employers, the…
22 Apr 2024
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday promised that deportation flights of asylum seekers to Rwanda will begin in "10 to 12 weeks", as the plan entered its final stage in parliament.
19 Apr 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled planned welfare reforms Friday to end Britain's "sick note culture", in an apparent pitch to keep his beleaguered Conservatives in power at an election due this year.
25 Mar 2024
The UK on Monday launched a new global social media campaign, aimed at Vietnam in particular, to deter migrants from trying to cross the Channel from northern France on small boats.
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday waded into a row over a new England football shirt sold by Nike that changes the colours of the St George's Cross, saying "we shouldn't mess" with national flags.
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