French police to use nets to stop small boat migrants crossing Channel - New tactics to stop boats set to be introduced ...

Several dozen people gather in Calais to pay tribute to the 518 migrants who have died in the English Channel since 1999, laying flowers at the foot of hundreds of pairs of shoes laid out on the beach ...

Over 2,300 migrants had to be rescued attempting to cross the English Channel in 2019, four times the number for 2018, local authorities in northern France said on Tuesday. Over the past year, growing ...

A French court Tuesday sentenced eight men to between three and 15 years in prison over the deaths of seven people when a boat carrying migrants capsized in the Channel in 2023.

Small boat crossings have resumed after two weeks of bad weather and rough seas, bringing the total number of illegal arrivals this year to over 38,000.

PARIS (AP) — Two women died Saturday morning while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K. on board a makeshift boat carrying other migrants, French authorities said. Rescuers ...