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The latest stowaway news and reports from around the world

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November

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• Ferry crew find 25 stowaways in UK-bound refrigerated container
• Union calls for coordinated approach to people smuggling following lorry deaths
• Nine missing Kurdish stowaways believed en route to UK
• Five Ghanaian stowaways disembarked at Tema Port
• Kenya Airways stowaway: Mystery of the man who fell from the sky
• Belarusian caught stowing away on departing airplane
• Miracle: Three stowaways who survived treacherous journeys
• Sky News pulls story wrongly identifying Kenyan plane fall victim after reporter was 'misled
• Four African Stowaways Guilty of Affray After ‘Sh*t-Throwing’ Incident on Italian Ship Off UK Coast
• What happened to 3 stowaways in Argentia? Border Services won't say
• KQ flight in Johannesburg stowaway incident
• China Airlines Flight Cancelled As Man Attempts To Stow Away
• Flight From Barcelona to Dublin Evacuated After Stowaway Locks Himself in Toilet
• 16 people discovered in sealed lorry trailer on Cherbourg-Rosslare ferry
• Kenya Airways plane forced to turn back over alleged stowaway

October

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• Europe via the Indian Ocean? New wave of illegal immigration hits France's Mayotte
• Bigger refugee crisis looming, EU warned
• UK police still hoping to ID stowaway who died on Kenya flight
• National Crime Agency warned of Zeebrugge illegal migrant threat
• Airline stowaway found frozen to death in jet’s landing gear
• Refugees and migrants know the risks of stowing away on a lorry – but feel they must take them
• Essex lorry deaths: How are lorries checked for concealed migrants?
• Police release first image of mystery stowaway who fell from plane
• French police to double beach patrols after discovering two dead Iraqi migrants suspected of attempting to get to Britain
• Illegal Chinese migration to Europe 'commonplace' despite risks
• Four EU nations seek endorsement for 'fast-track' migrant plan
• Over 4,000 illegal migrants intercepted in one week
• Police helicopter removes 'cruise ship stowaway' off the Isles of Scilly to Cornwall
• Greece to deport thousands of migrants after deadly camp fire
• Police remove man from jet after he forced his way onboard at Miami airport
• Thames Estuary ship master thought men 'could be terrorists'

September

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• Ship docks at Great Yarmouth port after stowaways found
• Four deny container ship ‘hijack attempt’ in bid to reach UK, court told
• ICE arrests 82 illegal immigrants in sweeps across New York
• Channel migrants: Two boats found after 86 attempted crossing
• Special forces stormed ship to end ‘hijacking by stowaways’
• Thames Estuary cargo ship stowaways 'threw urine and faeces'
• Plane stowaways: putting an end to a deadly gamble
• Mexico cracks down on illegal migration
• Moroccan flight stowaway's body found in Casablanca airport
• Indonesian stowaway hides in plane's wheel well to hitch free flight to 'dream city' Jakarta
• US slashes refugee limit to all-time low of 18,000
• Migrant Stowaways Ride Greek Freight Trains Seeking Escape to North
• Wrexham couple arrested at Calais after teenage stowaway found hidden in the boot of their car
• 5 illegal immigration attempts stopped in Tunisia
• South Africa toughens its stowaway policy

August

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• No stowaways to be allowed to disembark in South Africa
• 'You run away to die sometimes': The underworld of Cape Town's stowaways [Video]
• Three Nigerian stowaways found at Tema Port
• Channel migrants: Sixty-six people found in small boats
• Two teenagers arrested for attempting to stow away
• Man found hiding in cargo section on flight from Havana to Miami
• Two young Malaysia women arrested after stowaway found inside car trying to leave Singapore
• Jail time for 4 stowaways who attempted to sneak out of Kenya to the USA
• Fatal journeys: The realities behind travel as a stowaway passenger
• RNLI pick up migrants off Thanet coast – multi-agency search for one person in water ongoing
• Combating menace of stowaway
• Tema Regional Immigration Command receives two Ghanaian stowaways
• Two teenagers in police grip for stowaway attempt
• ‘India acted irresponsibly’: Ex-Maldives V-P’s lawyer on denied entry

July

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• Malta to relocate 65 migrants after rescue ships defy Italy ban
• Incredible moment gardai find stowaways in engine compartment of bus in Dublin Port
• Wrong port for stowaways
• More illegal immigrant bodies found off Tunisian coasts
• Coach stowaways disrupt Budmouth College trip
• Ship with 54 Migrants Barred from Docking in Italy
• X-ray by Mexican border police shows migrant stowaways in truck
• Migrant stowaways hitch a ride with Ferrari to British Grand Prix
• Long journey to Europe begins in Istanbul for illegal migrants
• Two boats carrying suspected illegal migrants intercepted off Kent coast
• The Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Where do stowaways hide on planes?
• Confirmation stowaway truck arrived at Big Top from France
• About 800,000 illegal immigrants detained in Turkey
• Body of plane stowaway found in London garden
• 13 stowaways killed in Congo train crash

June

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• Israel to deport Turkish stowaway who set fire to cargo ship near Haifa
• French imam jailed over Channel migrant crossings
• Illegal migration to Europe via Turkey lingers
• Israeli Forces Detain Stowaway Trying to Set Cargo Ship on Fire
• US follows Europe's lead in prosecuting those who help migrants
• The EU’s war on African migrants
• IMO guidelines for the unwanted person onboard-Stowaway
• How to prevent stowaways from entering onboard
• Next EU Agenda Must Address Migration, Sovereignty, Christianity
• Port Security disembarks an alleged stowaway
• Trump says U.S. agency will begin removing millions of illegal immigrants
• Physically Challenged Stowaway Sentenced To 4 Years Imprisonment
• Sierra Leonean stowaway disembarked in Tema Port
• Italy takes further steps to clamp down on immigration

May

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• Illegal execution of 9 Nigerian stowaways in Gambia
• 73 illegal immigrants rescued, 2 drown off Libyan western coast
• Man found hiding in car's glove box in desperate attempt to enter Europe
• How Europe Can Win on Migration
• Channel migrants: 'Record number' of boats and 74 people intercepted
• Finland Intends to Put Electronic 'Fetters' on Illegal Migrants
• Border Patrol Apprehends Large Group of Illegal Immigrants... From Africa
• Is an anti-migration alliance in Europe growing?
• Stowaway clings to top of lorry on M20
• Frontex deploys border guards to Albania to halt illegal migration
• “France Does Not Belong to the French”: Illegal Immigrants Storm French Airport
• Italy vs Switzerland: Who sends home more irregular migrants?
• Security Alert at UK Army Base Over Migrant Stowaways on Bus

April

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• Salvini in fresh warning to migrant rescue ships
• Rescued migrants denied entry by Italy arrive in Malta
• A stowaway survived a 2-hour flight inside the landing gear compartment of an Air France flight last week
• Albanian stowaways arrested at Sheppey's Kingsferry Bridge
• President Wants 'Asylum Only' Hearings for Credible Fear Claimants
• The complicated history of asylum in America — explained
• More than 30 migrants picked up by UK Border Force after crossing English Channel in boats
• Boat with nine suspected migrants, eight men and a teenager, brought by Border Force to Dover
• Four EU nations agree to take stranded migrants
• Trump doubles down on plan to ship migrants to sanctuary cities, says ‘Radical Left’ should be happy
• Thirty foreign nationals found in van on M5 in Devon
• Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge
• Migrants intercepted in the Channel near Dover
• Italian coastguard declares migrant rescue ship Mare Jonio unfit for sea
• Nigeria Records First Low Piracy Attacks In 25 Years- IMB
• Kidnapping Migrants at the Mediterranean: How Rescue Becomes Capture

March

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• Hijacked captain recalls 'horror' in Mediterranean Sea as migrants took over ship
• Home Office rejected cut-price fleet to halt migrants
• Spain: Illegal immigration by sea drop in February
• EU poised to order migrant rescue ships back to port
• Tema Port security interrupts stowaway
• Three teens charged in Malta over refugee ship hijacking
• Rescued migrants hijack merchant ship off Libya
• EU Faces Security Challenges in Migration Control
• Eleven migrants found in small boat near Ramsgate
• Hard Brexit fears provoke increase in stowaway damage to Murcia trucks in Calais
• Rescue ship blocked off Italy in fresh migrant row
• Brexit settled status scheme 'risks new Windrush scandal'
• The 10 best articles on refugees and migration
• Montenegro arrests suspected migrant smugglers

February

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• Stowaways From Albania Found in Ringaskiddy Face Deportation
• EU illegal migrant arrivals fall but stronger borders needed - Frontex head
• Two arrested for attempting to stow away to China
• Illegal immigration, refugees top Arab-EU Summit agenda
• UK authorities pluck migrants from dinghy in English Channel
• Immigration control a sweeping concern in Central Europe
• Kenyan ship off Mundra coast reports stowaway
• Migrant boats intercepted trying to cross Channel from France to UK
• Second arrest over migrant boat arrival in Folkestone
• Motor enthusiast shocked to find immigrant stowaway in his vintage car
• Europe Has Its Fingers Crossed on Algeria
• Tema Port security arrest two stowaways
• Immigration from EU drops to nine-year low
• Ghana Immigration Service Receives Two Stowaways

January

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• Stowaway found in school trip coach luggage compartment
• UK citizenship tests: Gangs help cheating candidates pass
• Two Ghanaian Stowaways Arrested
• Another 23 migrants intercepted in Channel by UK Border Force
• Three stowaways caught on merchant ship off Miami
• Immigrants charged with hijacking ship heading to Tilbury
• 'Degradation of border security' under 'no-deal' Brexit, warns UK Border Force
• Four stowaways found hidden on ship bound for Cork
• The Home Secretary Sajid Javid's statement to Parliament about migrant crossings
• Would-be stowaway found in car engine
• 'Illegal immigrants' jump onto M25 near Dartford Crossing
• Migrant stowaways found on pop star’s tour bus
• Stowaway deported after trying to illegally enter Australia by hiding out on a cargo ship

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