Beatrice Tridimas

Hundreds of non-British citizens have reported problems with accessing a new online system for verifying their immigration status. 

From entire system outages, to people experiencing problems with their online UK Visas and Immigration account set-up, issues have bedevilled the scheme at every stage. 

Britain has failed to resolve years-old issues with its eVisa system ahead of the phase-out of physical immigration documents, jeopardising the rights of around 4 million people living legally in Britain, rights groups say.

Hundreds of people have struggled to access new electronic records of their immigration status, making it hard to apply for welfare payments and prove their right to work or rent property.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he is still willing to sign a deal on developing critical minerals with the United States, despite last week's explosive Oval Office meeting.

Zelenskiy rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's initial demand for $500 billion of mineral wealth from Ukraine in repayment for military support, but was expected to sign an agreement on Friday before Trump accused him of being ungrateful for U.S. aid, of showing disrespect to the United States and of risking World War Three.

New British legislation designed to crack down on smuggling gangs blamed by the government for a surge in the number of people crossing the Channel in flimsy inflatable boats will fail to deter people from trying, experts say.

The Border Security and Asylum Immigration bill, due to be debated in parliament this month, includes measures to rein in organised crime gangs the interior minister, Yvette Cooper, has said are behind the often-deadly Channel crossings.

Women farmers, land defenders and critical mineral miners are disproportionately exposed to effects of a warming world, but a growing body of evidence has also linked climate change to an increase in gender-based violence at work and at home.

This new threat comes on top of women's greater exposure to displacement, water scarcity and ill health, all as a result of climate change.

Global humanitarian aid continued to decline in 2024 with a funding shortfall stuck at a record high as new and existing conflicts and multiplying climate disasters left more than 320 million people in need of aid.

In 2024, $21.2 billion was raised to help dedicated country programmes, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) figures.

Hundreds of people, and possibly even thousands, may have been killed after Cyclone Chido devastated France’s poorest overseas territory, the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, over the weekend.

The cyclone was the strongest storm to strike Mayotte in more than 90 years with winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) tearing up makeshift houses and leaving streets covered in mud and rubble and residents without water or power.

More children are taking perilous routes to reach safety in Europe but rights groups warn the bloc is ill-equipped to help them

Signatories to the Energy Charter Treaty, an agreement that allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments over climate policies, have adopted changes meant to address concerns that the pact undermines efforts to fight climate change.

The 1998 Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has allowed firms and investors to sue governments on the grounds that their profits could be hurt by policies aimed at cutting planet-heating emissions from burning fossil fuels.

The world has pledged to wean itself off 'dirty' coal to slow the pace of climate change, so why is China - already the world's top producer and consumer of coal - upping its output?

China is home to dozens of polluting coal-fired power plants and emits more greenhouse gasses than any other nation.