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Passport e-gates at UK airports down

Passengers flying into the UK are facing long delays at passport controls as e-gates across the country have gone down. The issue is affecting people arriving at UK airports – including Heathrow, Manchester and Gatwick – after the system went down on Friday night. The Home Office said it was working with airlines and port operators to “minimise disruption for ...

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Net migration to UK hits record 606,000 in 2022

Net migration to Britain reached a record high of 606,000 last year, data showed on Thursday, drawing fresh promises from prime minister Rishi Sunak to reduce arrivals, but underscoring the difficulty of doing so at a time of acute labour shortages. The increase was driven by people from outside the European Union coming to Britain to work or study and ...

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Many foreign students to lose right to bring family to UK

Foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK, under new immigration curbs. The announcement has been made two days before official statistics are expected to show legal migration has hit a record 700,000 this year. Last year, 135,788 visas were granted to dependants of foreign students, nearly nine times the ...

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UK govt announces overseas student curbs to slash immigration

The UK government on Tuesday announced a package of measures aimed at international students, including a ban on some family members, as ministers come under growing pressure to cut immigration, AFP reports. After a drop during the pandemic, net migration has been steadily on the rise and is reportedly expected to hit a record high this year. Official figures published ...

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London Fields author Martin Amis dies aged 73

Martin Amis, whose novels Money and London Fields made him one of the most renowned literary figures of his generation, had died aged 73. The British author died at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, the New York Times reports. His wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, told the newspaper the cause of his death was esophageal cancer. It is the same ...

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G7 Summit: PM Modi holds bilateral meeting with UK PM Sunak in Hiroshima

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a bilateral meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Hiroshima on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Japan. Earlier today, PM Modi began his day by visiting the Peace Memorial Museum, where he observed the documented exhibits and signed the visitor’s book. PM Modi along with Australian Prime Minister Anthony ...

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Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie expecting third child

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie has announced she is pregnant with her third child. Sharing the news on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said she had felt “pretty exhausted” for the past eight months but “we can’t wait to meet this little one” in a few weeks’ time. The couple, who married in May 2021, already have two children – ...

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Roundtable on freedom of religion in Bangladesh held at UK Parliament

British MPs and Peers participated in a high-level roundtable on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Bangladesh in the UK Parliament on Wednesday. The event in the Thatcher Room at Portcullis House took place under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Bangladesh Study Circle London. Speakers include Dr Gowher Rizvi, ...

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Sunak to warn international system for policing human trafficking is ‘not working’

The Prime Minister will warn European leaders during a gathering in Iceland that the international system for policing human trafficking is “not working”. Rishi Sunak will tell the Council of Europe meeting in Reykjavik that both European communities and the world’s most vulnerable are “paying the price” for the failure to prevent unlawful migration. It comes as Mr Sunak’s Conservative ...

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UK promises more missiles, attack drones for Ukraine as Zelenskyy meets Sunak on European tour

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Britain Monday on his whirlwind European tour, as the staunch ally of Kyiv promised to give Ukraine hundreds more missiles and attack drones in an effort to change the course of the war. Zelenskyy landed by helicopter at Chequers, the British leader’s official country retreat, where he was greeted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ...

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