Category: World

26 years on from the Security Council Resolution 1325, this Council’s message remains clear: sustainable peace requires women’s full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation.   And yet, we’ve heard from our briefers, women continue to be excluded from peace negotiations and political transitions.  According to the Secretary-General’s annual report, in 2024, nearly 90% of negotiation tracks […]

18 June 2026 Press Release International and organised crime CPS A man who supplied dangerous weapons to the drug-dealing head of a Birmingham-based crime group has today been jailed for more than 10 years. Rizwan Malik, 43 of Small Heath, supplied crime boss Danyal Aziz with three Walther Creed 9mm self-loading, semi-automatic pistols, via one […]

“We believe the fact that the indispensable role of the IAEA is recognized is a sound point of departure,” said Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in reference to the reported text of the memorandum. “Now it’s for us to sit down with our American colleagues, our Iranian colleagues […]

Updates to this page Published 10 August 2015 Last updated 18 June 2026 — Show all updates 18 June 2026 We have updated the application forms for marital status certificates and certificates of no impediment. 13 February 2025 Guidance for applications updated. If your partner has been married before, you no longer need to provide […]

The findings come in the annual UN report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) which documents six main violations: killing and maiming, recruitment and use, abduction, rape and other forms of sexual violence, attacks on schools and hospitals, and denial of humanitarian access.  The report verified 38,558 grave violations committed in 2025 affecting 24,174 children, many of whom suffered multiple violations. A third of the victims were girls.  This marks the highest number […]

Hybrid cars are a regular sight on European roads today. Sitting between internal combustion engines and fully electric vehicles, they run on fuel for some of the journey and electricity for the rest. That concept might be about to shake up the aviation industry. Aviation accounts for around 2.5% of global carbon emissions, a share […]

Thank you, Mr Vice President, We thank the Special Rapporteur for her important work and today’s report. We commend her dedication throughout her mandate during which she has been a principled and authoritative voice for the protection of freedom of expression worldwide. We express our deep appreciation for her leadership, independence, and consistent defence of […]

  The European Commission’s yearly State of the Digital Decade report assesses how the EU is progressing on its 2030 digital transformation targets.  The 2026 report shows that the EU has made progress in key areas. However, structural gaps continue to hold back Europe’s digital transformation, and faster action will be needed to reach the […]

The new cohort, selected through the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) Fellowships scheme, will undertake pioneering discovery research across a wide range of biological sciences. This includes a host of novel projects, from exploring how mitochondria orchestrate immune responses to decoding the molecular mechanisms of silk secretion for next-generation biomaterials. BBSRC’s Fellowships scheme […]

A Louisiana nurse practitioner was sentenced today to 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release for causing over $12 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests. She was also ordered to pay $1,508,868.25 in restitution. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Scharmaine […]