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TWO DEAD ON MIGRANT BOAT OFF EL HIERRO Televisión Canaria reported that 113 people were rescued from a cayuco near El Hierro in the Canary Islands overnight and two people on board died. RTVE reported the boat had left Gambia eight days earlier, and that a one-year-old girl is in a critical condition with five others under observation in hospital.

CANARY ISLANDS MIGRANTS FLOWN TO MADRID Footage shared by Canario Today on X shows a long line of young men with backpacks at Tenerife North Airport, which the account says were boarding a government-arranged flight to Madrid today. La Gaceta reported that Spain chartered a plane on 30 October to move almost 200 migrants who arrived by boat from the Canary Islands to the mainland, the latest of several such transfers this month.

FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL BACKS LEAVING THE ECHR Sir Jeremy Wright, who long opposed quitting the European Convention on Human Rights, told GB News that any country that is a destination of choice for illegal migrants must be able to have a sensible, robust immigration policy. Writing in The Telegraph, he said the Strasbourg court has become a "serious obstacle" to tackling large-scale illegal immigration and that the next government should seek a mandate to leave.

SOMALIA'S PRESIDENT WARNS OF AL-SHABAAB THREAT Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told Sky News that "if Mogadishu is not safe, London is not safe", warning that the war on the Islamist group al-Shabaab affects security far beyond Somalia. Mustaqbal Media reported he acknowledged al-Shabaab has retaken some territory lost in the 2022 offensive, and he told Sky the African Union force in the country has shrunk from 21,000 to 11,000 troops.

NET MIGRATION FORECAST TO NEARLY DOUBLE GB News reported that the Office for Budget Responsibility's Budget forecasts show net migration rising from 120,000 this year to 230,000 a year by mid-2031. Asked by GB News whether the Government was losing control of migration, Chancellor John Healey said Labour was "doing a good job on migration" and pointed to higher removals and a lower asylum bill.

CHARITIES INVITED TO SPONSOR NEW REFUGEE ARRIVALS The Home Office said applications opened today for charities to become lead sponsors on its new Named Community Sponsorship and Refugee Study routes, with first arrivals expected next autumn from countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt. House of Lords footage shared on X shows the Bishop of Chelmsford urging the government to "welcome the welcomers" and noting that Canada's comparable scheme has resettled over 440,000 refugees since 1979.

PEOPLE-SMUGGLING NETWORK JAILED FOR OVER 84 YEARS The National Crime Agency said the final three members of an East London gang that hid migrants in lorries bound for France were sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday, taking the 21-strong network's combined jail terms past 84 years. BBC News reported that ringleader Shuhal Ahmed, 44, who charged around £1,400 a person, was jailed for eight and a half years.

NICE BASILICA ATTACKER APPEALS LIFE SENTENCE Nice-Matin reported that Brahim Aouissaoui, the Tunisian illegal migrant who murdered three people with a knife at Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice six years ago today, faces an appeal trial in Paris from 7 to 18 December. BFM Côte d'Azur reported that he is appealing the whole-life sentence handed down in February 2025, as Nice paid tribute to the victims.

SMALL BOAT CROSSINGS RESUME AFTER THREE WEEKS GB News reported that migrants are crossing the Channel in small boats for the first time in more than three weeks after storms cleared, with its producer counting 72 people, mostly men, being brought ashore at Dover by Border Security Command. GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White said a second dinghy launched from Belgium with around 50 people on board and picked up dozens more near Dunkirk before heading for UK waters.

US BORDER CHIEF ON UK REMOVALS White House border czar Tom Homan told GB News that Britain struggles to remove people who arrive illegally because of human rights claims such as the right to a family life. In the GB News interview with Tom Harwood, Homan said the US removes people making the same claims and that this is "why you'll never have a secure border" in Britain.

EU PLANS 30,000-STRONG FRONTEX BORDER FORCE The European Commission has proposed gradually expanding the EU border agency Frontex to 30,000 officers, including a new 17,000-strong border and return reserve and a Quick Reaction Force for border crises. Agence Europe reported that Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner said returns of irregular migrants must increase, and the plan now needs approval from the European Parliament and member states.

BOURNEMOUTH ASYLUM HOTEL CRIME FIGURES GB News reported that police data from September 2023 to August 2026 records 673 crime and antisocial behaviour reports at map points next to three Bournemouth hotels used to house asylum seekers, with violence and sexual offences the largest category at 259. The Home Office told GB News, in response to its earlier findings on the Crowborough site, that police data does not suggest a significant rise in crime associated with residents there.

£150M FOR NEW LARGE ASYLUM SITES GB News reported that today's Budget documents provide £150 million in 2027-28 to fund additional large sites to accommodate asylum seekers, as the government moves to end the use of asylum hotels. The Daily Mail reported that no locations or number of new centres have been announced yet; pictured is the existing Wethersfield site in Essex.

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SOMALIA SAYS 75 AL-SHABAAB FIGHTERS KILLED Kenyan broadcaster K24 reported that Somalia's military says nearly 75 al-Shabaab militants were killed and 56 wounded in a major offensive in the southwestern Bay region. Somalia's Ministry of Defence announced the operation against the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, though the casualty figures have not been independently verified.