US investigating leak of classified documents on Israelโ€™s attack plans: Reports

The documents, marked top secret, describe satellite images of Israeli preparations for a potential strike on Iran, according to media reports.ย 

Heavy-hit Florida may have avoided โ€˜worst case scenarioโ€™ from Hurricane Milton

The state is now conducting damage assessments after the hurricane made landfall late Wednesday, but early indications are that the damage could have been worse.

Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida after DeSantis warns of fatalities

It made landfall along the Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday evening; DeSantis warned earlier in the day of the likelihood of storm-related deaths in the state.

Italy prepares new crackdown on migrant rescue efforts

New legislation targets planes working with NGO vessels.

Even Britainโ€™s left-wing government seeks lessons from Giorgia Meloni

Keir Starmer wants to ape Italy on tackling irregular migration. He should brace for controversy.

Heavy rains batter Central Europe, at least four found dead in Romania

Storms battered eastern Romania on Saturday, flooding several neighbourhoods, where emergency workers found four people dead in a search and rescue mission.ย The stormy weather comes as several central European nations anticipate severe flooding to hit…

Mike Lynch confirmed dead after yacht sank off Sicily coast during storm

Tech tycoon, 59, was among six people missing since early hours of Monday morning when Bayesian yacht capsizedThe British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed dead by search and rescue authorities after his yacht sank off the coast of Sicily…

Visitors to Greece appear ill informed about heatwave risk, warn rescuers

Call for better trail signage and backing for walking clubs as concerns grow over tourists encountering searing heatWith Greece gripped by unusually high temperatures, fears are growing that foreign visitors are not aware or being properly informed of …

UK election: Tory campaign policy positions, tracked

POLITICO keeps the receipts on what the Conservatives have said about policy in the general election campaign, from national service to the ‘triple lock plus.’

Commissionerโ€™s offering of EU โ€˜solidarityโ€™ with Iran creates storm

“European solidarity? With whom. And with whose money?” one MEP asked.

โ€˜A true friendโ€™: Russia, China offer condolences after death of Iranโ€™s President

Raisi made an “invaluable personal contribution” to boosting neighborly relations between Tehran and Moscow, Putin said.

Iranโ€™s President Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash

Raisi had been tipped as a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The new EU asylum laws, part 8: the โ€˜crisisโ€™ Regulation โ€“ and conclusions

 Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway, University of LondonPhoto credit: Sam Zidovetski, via Wikimedia Commons(Last amended June 18 2024: amendments marked by asterisks)

Just before Christmas, the
European Parliament and the Council (the EU body…

The new EU asylum laws, part 6: the new Dublin rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers

 Professor Steve Peers,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons(last updated 10 June 2024: changed text marked by an asterisk)Just before Christmas, the
European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consi…

The new Screening Regulation โ€“ part 5 of the analysis of new EU asylum laws

 Professor Steve
Peers, Royal Holloway University of London

Photo credit: Rock Cohen, via Wikimedia
Commons(Amended on 14 May and 10 and 18 June 2024 – changed sentences marked with an asterisk)

Just before Christmas, the European
Parliament and…

Migration Pact โ€˜comes at expense of human rightsโ€™, Amnesty International warns

The Asylum and Migration Pact adopted by the European Parliament on Wednesday (10 April) will โ€œweaken the right to asylumโ€ and enshrine in law an ailing approach to migration policy, Eve Geddie, head of Amnesty Internationalโ€™s Brussels office, told Eur…

Nine people including baby die after boat capsizes off Lampedusa

Italian coastguard rescues 22 survivors trying to cross Mediterranean and searches for missingNine people, including a baby, have died after their boat capsized while trying to cross the Mediterranean in stormy weather, and another 15 people are feared…

Report: French police put migrantsโ€™ lives at risk with aggressive tactics against small boats

UK PM Sunak has pledged to โ€œstop the boatsโ€ from crossing the Channel and said he would pay millions of pounds to France for help.

Revealed: UK-funded French forces putting migrantsโ€™ lives at risk with small-boat tactics

Exclusive: newly obtained footage and leaked documents show how a โ€˜mass casualty eventโ€™ could arise from aggressive tactics employed by border forcesFrench police funded by the UK government have endangered the lives of vulnerable migrants by intercept…

Resistance is futile: the new Eurodac Regulation โ€“ part 4 of the analysis of new EU asylum laws

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of LondonPhoto credit: Rachmaninoff, via Wikimedia CommonsAmendments to this blog post since its original publication are marked by asterisks.* Most recent amendment: June 18 2024. Just before…

Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people

Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres says โ€˜dangerous manoeuvresโ€™ by coastguard put refugees at even greater riskAn NGO performing search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean has accused the Libyan coastguard of hampering an attempt to save more than 170 people…

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 739

Zelenskiy urges west to deliver more air defences as at least 11 killed in Russian attacks; Germany investigates Moscowโ€™s apparent interception of military call discussing UkraineSee all our Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskiy has called on the wes…

Ukraine sinks Russian ship off Crimean coast

Russiaโ€™s Black Sea fleet suffers further losses.

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 717

Russian strike kills three in Sumy village as petrol station attack sparks blaze in Kharkiv; western officials deride Tucker Carlson interview with Vladimir PutinSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageA Russian attack in the north-eastern Ukrainian reg…

โ€˜I was willing to risk it all, or dieโ€™: a week onboard a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea

Thousands of people die each year crossing the worldโ€™s most dangerous migration route to Europe. Yet many of those rescued from the waves say they would do it all againPhotographs by Stefanie GlinskiAfter hours searching the grey waters of the Mediterr…

The EU General Courtโ€™s judgment in the case of WS and Others v Frontex: human rights violations at EU external borders going unpunished

  

Francesca
Romana Partipilo, PhD candidate in
International Law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) 

 

Photo credit: Rock Cohen,
via Wikimedia
commons

(see also critique of the judgment, by Melanie Fink and Jorrit …

EUโ€™s migration obsession is killing its commitment to human rights

The next victim of the blocโ€™s migration obsession may well be itself.

The Guardian view on investigating a migrant tragedy: bereaved families deserve the truth | Editorial

Why was an effective search and rescue operation not mounted to save up to 750 people on board the Adriana, as it struggled off the Greek coast?For the relatives of the hundreds of migrants who drowned in June when a fishing trawler packed with human c…

Watchdog investigates EU border agencyโ€™s role after Greece boat disaster

Ombudsman to examine search and rescue role of Frontex after at least 500 people drowned in tragedyThe EU watchdog has launched an investigation into the role of the European border and coastguard agency in Mediterranean search and rescue operations af…

Press release – Search and rescue: MEPs demand more EU action to save lives at sea

MEPs wish to see the EU and member states carry out more active and coordinated search and rescue (SAR) operations, with border agency Frontex playing a key role.Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Source : ยฉ European Union, 2023 – EP

Should the EU run migrant rescues? The EUโ€™s executive says no, Parliament says yes

In a tense European Parliament hearing, the EU’s home affairs commissioner said countries must ‘step up’ following the Greek shipwreck.

Create new Europe-wide migrant rescue mission, EU parties implore

European parliamentarians proposed a cross-party motion in the wake of a deadly migrant shipwreck in Greece.

EU cooperation on migration with third countries: Time to address the genealogy of informal agreements in EU migration law

 

Dr Cรฉline Hocquet,
Teaching Fellow, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham

Photo credit: Issam Barhoumi, via Wikimedia Commons 

As the EU makes yet another proposal
to cooperate with a third country on containing migrants outsid…