Authorities in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta are scrambling to cope with an influx of internal refugees, as thousands of civilians flee an outbreak of fighting between rival rebel factions. Buses, trailers and dump trucks packed with disoriented mothers and children have been streaming into the border city since Friday when the bloody conflict…
Elliot Malunga Delihlazo’s grandmother would say that her brother Bhesengile went to war and never came back. The family knew he had died in the first world war, but they never had a body to bury, only a memorial stone in the rural family homestead in Nkondlo in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Now the…
Justice department may investigate attempts to block immigration enforcement Federal prosecutors could investigate state and local officials who do not cooperate with Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, the Associated Press reports, citing a justice department memo authored by an appointee of the new president. The policy marks an attempt by the new Trump administration to…
The UK government will publish an immigration white paper later this year including a review of visas to entice more high-skilled workers as part of its push to kickstart growth, Rachel Reeves has announced. The chancellor told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “We are going to look again at routes…
Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by 36%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials have said. Income from permit fees and other spending by foreign climbers is a key source of revenue and employment for the poor country, which…
‘Keep your heads high’ Poland’s Tusk urges Europeans, but warns ‘the time of comfort is over’ Polish prime minister Donald Tusk delivers his speech at the European Parliament. Photograph: Pascal Bastien/AP Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has been speaking in the European Parliament, delivering a wide-ranging speech on the future of the EU, with some…