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👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Has Vladimir Putin traded Donald Trump for Xi Jinping? Yalda and Richard are back from their summer break and unpack the summit in Beijing. The leaders of Russia, India, and North Korea are all there – but what is going o...
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been summoned to face trial in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actress Charlotte Arnould. “I feel relieved,” Ms Arnould wrote on Instagram after receiving the judge’s indictment order. “The order restores a form of judic...
The alleged GPS jamming of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen by Russia raises concerns about air travel – but were there politics at play? Jamming can overwhelm an aircraft’s GPS navigation systems, preventing them from working properly, leaving pilots to rely on other ways of finding ou...
Police in Dublin are preparing to search an area of open ground as they investigate the disappearance of a seven-year-old boy not seen in three years – and who was never reported missing. The Gardai, the Irish police service, say that the missing child is “presumed dead”. The boy, who...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Beijing to meet with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, ahead of one of the largest military parades ever staged. It is the first time in his 14-year rule that Mr Kim has joined a multilateral event, and it is the first time all three leaders have ...
At least seven people have been killed, parliament buildings have been set alight and more than 1,000 people have been arrested as anti-government protests sweep across Indonesia. The unrest began in Jakarta, the country’s capital, more than a week ago – but has grown into wider demonstrati...
Nestle shares opened down more than 2.5% after the maker of Nescafe, Cheerios, KitKat, and Rolos dismissed its chief executive after an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship with an employee. On Monday night, Nestle announced that the immediate dismissal of Laurent Freixe, effective im...
The Belgian government has said it will officially recognise the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly this month. The country’s foreign minister, Maxime Prevot, announced it will join the UK, France, Canada, and Australia in recognising a Palestinian state. Belgium will also introduce...
Earthquakes represent a constant danger in Afghanistan – a country which sits across three geological fault lines. This most recent rupture near the city of Jalalabad – leaving more than 800 people dead – represents the third major quake in the past four years. But the people of this i...
More than 1,000 people are feared dead after a landslide in a village in western Sudan, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM) has said. The rebel group said only one survivor was found, and that the village in the Marrah Mountains area, in the Darfur region, was destroyed. SLM leader Abdelwahid Moham...
Olympic gold medallist Imane Khelif has appealed to sport’s highest court over World Boxing’s decision to bar her from its events without a preliminary genetic sex test. The appeal seeks to overturn the ruling and allow the Algerian female boxer to compete at the 2025 World Boxing Championsh...
The historic al Nuri mosque has been reopened in the heart of Mosul’s Old City in Iraq, eight years after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) militants. The mosque was where then-IS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi declared the so-called “caliphate” by delivering a Friday sermon and lead...
Bulgarian authorities have said they suspect Russia of jamming the GPS system of the jet carrying the EU Commission president on Sunday. If someone deliberately jams your jet’s GPS, it’s fair to assume they are trying to threaten or intimidate you. The Kremlin hasn’t responded to Sky N...
Chinese, Russian and Indian leaders hope their meeting in Beijing this week projects unity and helps usher in a new world order. They want to offer an alternative to American superpower hegemony. And with Donald Trump taking a wrecking ball to the old world order, they believe this is their moment. But...
Joe Bugner, the former British heavyweight boxing champion, who challenged Muhammad Ali for the world title, has died aged 75. Bugner, who also held the European and Commonwealth heavyweight crowns, died at a care home in Brisbane, Australia, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) said. Announcing h...
A businessman who snatched a cap being given to a young fan by tennis player Kamil Majchrzak at the US Open has offered a “sincere apology” for his actions and said he has returned it. Piotr Szczerek said he believed Majchrzak was handing the cap to him, and it had caused him to “insti...
Many of Europe’s largest economies have a debt problem, but the ramifications for the UK and France have a greater sense of urgency. It’s clear for both countries that failures to get a grip on their public finances are being punished by the bond markets at a time when economic growth is har...
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suffered GPS jamming as a result of suspected Russian interference, an EU spokesperson has confirmed to Sky News. The attack disabled GPS navigation services at a Bulgarian airport and forced the aircraft to land using paper maps, the F...
Media organisations from across the world have renewed calls for the killing of journalists in Gaza to stop – warning there will “soon be no one left to keep you informed”. The campaign is also demanding foreign media is allowed free access to Gaza and an “end to the impunity for...
Australia’s incoming ban of under-16s on social media can be “privately, effectively and efficiently” enforced, an official report has found. The Australian government is banning young teenagers from social media from December and commissioned the report to look into how the new rules...
A man has been found dead “in a pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, officials say. The man’s body, described as a white adult, was found “lying on the ground” after 9pm on Saturday at the art and music festival in the Black Rock Desert, roughly 110 miles n...
More than 600 people have been killed and at least 1,500 others injured after an earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, according to Taliban state officials. The quake hit the country’s rugged northeastern province of Kunar, near the Pakistan border, at roughly midnight on Sunday, destroying several...
A British woman has been stabbed to death in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, police have said. Local media have named the victim as 34-year-old Jessica Cariad Hopkins. Deputy commissioner general and commissioner of Phnom Penh Police Chuon Narin said the victim was found dead with stab wounds near a p...
The vast majority of policymakers in Westminster, let alone elsewhere around the UK, have never heard of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the geopolitical grouping currently holding its summit at Tianjin, but hear me out on why we should all be paying considerable attention to it. Because the more...
Nine people have been killed in a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan. The earthquake struck the east of the country near the Pakistan border at 11.47pm local time (8.17pm UK time) on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. At least nine people were killed and 25 were injured...
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have raided United Nations offices and detained several people, officials have said. The group has tightened security across the capital, Sanaa, after their prime minister was killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday. Sunday’s raids were the latest in a long-running Hout...
Vladimir Putin doesn’t do four-day getaways to a single country very often. His last was 20 years ago, to attend the 60th anniversary session of the UN General Assembly in New York in 2005. The fact that his current visit to China is that long says a lot. So does the timing – barely two ...
Norway has agreed to buy five new British warships in a deal worth £10bn, the Ministry of Defence has announced. The planned purchase of the Type 26 frigates built in Glasgow comes as the two nations seek to deepen their co-operation in countering Russian operations in the seas along NATO’s easter...
Greta Thunberg has set sail for Gaza as part of the largest flotilla of boats carrying aid for the Strip. The 22-year-old, who was wearing a “we are all Palestine Action” T-shirt, was cheered on by thousands of supporters waving Palestinian flags as she and other activists set off from Barce...
At a time when Donald Trump’s foreign policy continues to frustrate some and perplex others, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi have gathered to discuss trade and international security. The leaders of Russia, China and India joined others from central Asia at the latest summit of the Sh...
At least 43 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Saturday, according to local hospitals, as the Israeli offensive on Gaza City intensifies. Most of the casualties were reported in Gaza City. Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, said 29 bodies had been brought to its morgue, including 10 people ki...
The blossoming relationship between Donald Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has abruptly turned sour. After the heady days of the “Howdy Modi” event in Houston, and the mega “Namaste Trump” show in Ahmedabad, where a stadium was packed with over 100,000 people to wel...
South Australia will become the first place in the world to ban soy sauce fish-shaped containers as part of a wider cutdown on single-use plastic. From 1 September, the small dispensers often included in takeaway sushi meals will be phased out in the state. The move is part of an update to previous envi...
Tennis player Kamil Majchrzak tracked down a fan whose cap was snatched away from him at the US Open – so he could give him a new one. The Polish star, 29, signed balls and towels for people in the crowds at Flushing Meadows in New York after he won his match against Russia’s Karen ...
It’s the start of a very big week for China, and there is a clear sense they know the world is watching. Amidst a fractious time for the world order, as wars rage and previously trusted international norms are cast into doubt, China is playing a calculated diplomatic game, and this week is about s...
It’s the start of a very big week for China, and there is a clear sense they know the world is watching. Amidst a fractious time for the world order, as wars rage and previously trusted international norms are cast into doubt, China is playing a calculated diplomatic game, and this week is about s...
“We call drones our loyal friends, because they never leave us.” Tasneem hears Israeli drones overhead, a constant fact of life in Gaza. It gets into your head, into your chest, she says. “You can’t think, you can’t sleep. You can’t even be.” “It’s a...
“We call drones our loyal friends, because they never leave us.” Tasneem hears Israeli drones overhead, a constant fact of life in Gaza. It gets into your head, into your chest, she says. “You can’t think, you can’t sleep. You can’t even be.” “It’s a...
Israel has killed the Houthi rebel prime minister Ahmed al Rahawi, the Iranian-backed militant group has said. He was killed on Thursday in a strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, along with a number of other ministers, the group said in a statement. The Houthis have controlled much of northwestern Yemen...
At least three people have died after protesters set fire to a regional parliament building in Indonesia during a fifth day of unrest. Five people have been taken to hospital with burns or broken bones after jumping from the building in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi province, after it was...
Greta Thunberg has rejected accusations of antisemitism as she embarks on her second flotilla to Gaza. The 22-year-old and other activists are setting sail on the largest flotilla to Gaza on Sunday, despite having been detained by Israeli forces and deported when they approached on a British-flagged yac...
More than 63,000 Palestinians have now reportedly been killed during Israel’s war in Gaza, a figure likely to rise after the IDF declared Gaza City a combat zone on Friday. The number of people killed, reported by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, follows nearly 23 months of war. Israeli Prime M...
A former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has been shot dead in Lviv. Authorities said the gunman fired several shots at Andriy Parubiy, 54, killing him on the spot in the western city. A manhunt has been launched for the attacker, who fled the scene, but police have released no information on the ki...
Tennis star Kamil Majchrzak has responded to footage of a boy having his cap snatched from him in the crowd at the US Open this week. Majchrzak signed balls and towels for fans at Flushing Meadows after beating Russia’s Karen Khachanov on Thursday. After interacting with several supporters, Majchr...
Three brothers have set a new world for rowing across the Pacific Ocean unsupported in the fastest ever time. Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean, from Edinburgh, completed the more than 9,000-mile voyage from Peru to Australia after 139 days, five hours and 52 minutes at sea. They were greeted by more tha...
Far from home – at the St George’s Park home of the Lionesses – female footballers from Afghanistan have been reunited. Finally, they are playing together again. Here on a mission to win places on the Afghan refugee team, uniquely established by FIFA. “It was like a warm hug for...
Donald Trump’s tariffs are unconstitutional, but they can remain in place for now, the US Court of Appeals has said. The court ruled that the US president was not legally allowed to declare national emergencies and impose import taxes on almost every country, as it mostly upheld a decision by a sp...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials have been blocked from attending September’s annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. US secretary of state Marco Rubio has revoked the US visas of delegates from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liber...
A fraudster on the run from Britain will lose his £90m property empire and his Ferrari, a judge has ruled. Arif Patel, 57, from Preston, Lancashire, led a gang convicted in 2023 of one of the UK’s biggest carousel tax frauds. The sock manufacturer, who now lives in Dubai, funded his empire with hi...
The Brazilian hosts of the biggest climate meeting of the year have implored businesses to attend in November, amid concerns some are backing away from the climate agenda into the shadow of Donald Trump. In an interview with Sky News, Ana Toni, chief executive of the COP30 climate summit in November, ad...
