Dozens of inflatable small boats, engines and life vests were found during raids at 28 locations. Europol said the smuggling gang was capable of sending eight vessels to the UK every day.

At least 45 people have lost their lives trying to cross the Channel so far this year, making it one of the deadliest on record since the small boat crisis began in 2018. One of the new ...

More than 24,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel to the UK since the start of the year after 707 people made the crossing on Saturday. Home Office figures show that 11 boats were ...

Your support makes all the difference. A man rescued after 67 days adrift in a small inflatable boat has revealed how he stayed alive at sea. Mikhail Pichugin, 46, had set off to watch whales with ...

Home Office figures show that 11 boats were intercepted in the busiest day for a week. It brings the total for the year so far to 24,335, which is up 1% on the number of people who made the ...

Authorities say more than 230 migrants have reached Greece in small boats over the past two days, including a rare case of a crossing from north Africa to Greece’s southern mainland ATHENS ...

Taiwan is intensifying efforts to prevent maritime borders being breached after mainland Chinese men used small boats to land on its coast twice in recent months. Lawmakers have pointed to the two ...

The Home Office has earmarked more than £500 million to manage Channel migrants arriving on small boats for up to a decade, according to official documents. Officials are seeking commercial ...

Under clear skies, shortly after sunrise in the beachside fishing village of Siumu, Samoa, on Tuesday a dozen men and ...

A Russian man was rescued in the stormy Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for more than two months in a tiny inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew have died, officials said ...

Small boat arrivals were at their lowest September level for four years, new data shows. Home Office figures show 4,190 people crossed the Channel over the month. This was down from 4,729 during ...