More than 39,000 people, many fleeing conflict, took the perilous route this year, surpassing the entire 2024 total.
LONDON: Migrants resumed attempts to cross the English Channel on Saturday, four weeks after the last small boat arrived.
The pause – believed to be due to poor weather conditions – is the longest in seven years.
Before the weekend, no vessels had reached the southern English coast for 28 days, according to interior ministry figures.
Ex-DAP man warns Putrajaya and Dong Zong against allowing the matter to be further politicised or ethnicised.
Gone are the wild sweeping shots fired across the world as it becomes clear what this strategy really is: ‘the protection of core national interests’.