Migration

  • NewsAOL

    The great migration to Europe: why and what does it mean?

    Ever more people are arriving on Europe's shores, seeking new homes. What has made them come? And can they expect a welcome? Simon Wilson reports. What's behind this wave of migration? Two broad factors – push and pull. An

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  • HealthAOL

    Migrants must pay more to use NHS, say ministers

    Patients from outside the EU who seek help from the NHS are to be charged 150% of the cost, Ministers have announced. The move is to be rolled out in a bid to deter so-called "health

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    Three die as Italian rescue boat capsizes

    An overloaded rescue boat capsized in Italy leaving three migrants dead. According to the Italian Navy, the rubber dinghy capsized off the coast of Siciliy on Sunday as it approached the Norient Star, a merchant tanker, to start the rescue

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  • NewsAOL

    Migrants face child benefit curbs

    Restrictions on welfare available to immigrants from the EU to the UK will be extended to child benefits. Workers from the EU coming to Britain must already wait three months before they can claim jobseeker's allowance under new measures

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    UK visa 'auction' for well-off foreigners planned

    A controversial immigration plan could see wealthy foreigners buy British visas if they give cash to British universities, schools and hospitals. A full report is expected to arrive on Home Secretary Theresa May's desk next month outlining

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    Warning on migration shake-up cost

    Tough family migration rules could cost the public purse up to £850 million rather than make savings, a study has warned. An £18,600 minimum income requirement for British nationals and permanent residents seeking to sponsor a partner from outside

  • LifestyleAOL

    Jaws of death: Amazing moment wildebeest escapes crocodile smile

    Caters The wildebeest migration in Kenya is one of nature's most awe-inspiring spectacles, and one photographer captured the amazing moment a wildebeest quite literally escaped becoming a crocodile's dinner by the skin of its teeth.

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