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A man holds an English flag during the Epping protest.

Protests spread across UK as police admit drawing rival groups together

Anti-migrant demonstrators and refugee-advocate rivals are coming together outside asylum hotels as an explosive dispute about where to house thousands of people crossing the English Channel gathers pace.

  • David Crowe

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How Australia became home to a million refugees

Sidiqa Faqihi waited a decade in limbo in Indonesia before she arrived in Australia three years ago and felt reborn.

  • Brittany Busch
People demonstrate near the Bell Hotel on Sunday in Epping, England.

It’s a perfect English town. Now a battle over asylum seekers is ripping it apart

The quiet community – similar to leafy suburbs on the edges of Sydney and Melbourne – has become a flashpoint over asylum seekers as right-wing outsiders escalate the situation with violence.

  • David Crowe
Survivors of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime share their stories of survival and building new lives in Australia.

Rebuilding lives in the shadow of Khmer Rouge terror

Fifty years after fleeing Cambodia, survivors of the brutal regime share their stories - and reflect on how they found a future in Australia.

  • Neary Ty
Frayzel Uale is one of more than 5000 Tuvaluans who have entered a ballot for one of 280 permanent residency visas.

Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them

More than 8000 Tuvaluans have applied for 280 permanent residency visas for Australia, while last year 56,000 people from other Pacific countries applied for 3000 places.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Migrants board a small boat bound for the United Kingdom off the shoreline of Gravelines beach in Calais, France, on July 17.

‘The migrants are everywhere’: People smugglers are winning the battle of the beach

Smugglers post sentries in the dunes along France’s coast and launch Channel crossings from up to 10 beaches at a time. Authorities’ tear gas, drones and patrols are no match.

  • Max Stephens
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British troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2020.

Thousands of Afghans secretly resettled in Britain after data leak

Britain set up a secret scheme to bring 4500 Afghans and their families to the UK after their personal details were disclosed, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.

  • Sam Tobin and Andrew MacAskill
Federal agents marched through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles last week.

‘The experiment is on us’: Los Angeles keeps trying to defy Trump, with mixed results

Six weeks after protests captured worldwide attention, California remains at the centre of Donald Trump’s efforts to deport millions of illegal migrants.

  • Michael Koziol
Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop the bonfire at Moygashel, Northern Ireland.

‘Fifty people a week’: Fury on both sides of English Channel over migration deal

A deal to stem the flow of asylum seekers from Europe to Britain has been dismissed as too weak, amid forecasts that up to 40,000 people could arrive in the UK this year.

  • David Crowe
Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop a bonfire at Moygashel, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, ahead of events to mark the Twelfth of July, Thursday July 10, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

‘Migrant boat bonfire’ investigated as a hate crime in Northern Ireland

Local politicians have condemned the bonfire, built as part of traditional “loyalist” July 12 celebrations, that featured effigies of channel migrants in a dinghy.

  • Amanda Ferguson and Clodagh Kiloyne

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