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US President Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for former vice president and 2024 Democratic rival Kamala Harris. A senior adviser to the former vice president confirmed the decision to NBC News, Sky News’ US partner. In a statement, the official said: “The vice president is...
The Italian prime minister has been left outraged after an adult website posted unauthorised and altered images of women including herself. Giorgia Meloni – Italy’s first female PM – said on Friday that she is “disgusted by what’s happened”. She was quoted by Italian...
Thailand’s prime minister has been sacked after a leaked phone call with a senior Cambodian politician caused outrage. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was Thailand’s youngest PM, has been dismissed from office by the country’s Constitutional Court after only a year in power. The court foun...
A Polish Air Force pilot has died after his F-16 fighter jet crashed during a rehearsal for an airshow in central Poland, the country’s defence ministry has said. The crash happened in the city of Radom, central Poland, on Thursday, the ministry said on Friday. The General Command of the Armed Fo...
Police have released CCTV footage which they believe shows a fugitive father-of-three and one of his children, almost four years after they disappeared into the New Zealand wilderness. Tom Phillips vanished with his daughters Jayda and Ember, now aged 12 and nine, and son Maverick, 10, in December 2021....
An eight-year-old boy killed in the US Catholic school shooting has been named – as his father branded the attacker a “coward”. Fletcher Merkel was one of two children killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Eighteen other people were injured, in...
The families of two children killed in the US Catholic school shooting have said their “hearts are broken” and branded the attacker a “coward”. Fletcher Merkel who was eight and 10-year-old Harper Moyski were killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on We...
Japanese officials have released an AI-generated video showing a simulation of Mount Fuji violently erupting to raise awareness about a potential disaster. The video was released to mark Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day and warns an eruption could strike “at any moment, without warning”. I...
A British couple detained in Iran have been “suddenly whisked” to a courtroom in the country’s capital, Tehran, their family have said. Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested in January during a round-the-world motorbike trip and were later charged with espionage – allegations t...
After all those raised hopes of peace, Ukraine has been hit by the second-worst night of Russian air attacks since the war began. So much for diplomacy, despite the Alaska summit, then the Washington DC meeting. The Kremlin says it was aiming at military targets, but yet again, the pictures tell a very...
The mayor of Minneapolis has called for a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons after a deadly school shooting. Two children, aged eight and 10, were killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in the Minnesota city on Wednesday. Police said Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman, op...
More than 500 staff at the United Nations have urged its human rights chief to describe the Gaza conflict as a genocide. In a letter to Volker Turk, head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), staff claim that thelegal criteria for genocide in the nearly two-year Israel-Hamas w...
The UK, France and Germany are planning to revive UN-backed sanctions on Iran over fears it is developing nuclear weapons. The three European nations, known as the E3, are making the move after efforts to restart diplomatic talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme stalled. Iran insists its nuclear pr...
Police have released new details about the killer in the US Catholic school shooting – including that they “idolised” mass murderers and they wanted to “watch children suffer”. Two children, aged eight and 10, were killed during mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minne...
For a man whose name we are told was on a Russian hit list, Armin Papperger seems very relaxed. The 62-year-old is the chief executive of Germany’s largest weapons manufacturer, Rheinmetall. In January, a Nato official confirmed that a plot to murder Armin Papperger was foiled by US and German int...
Tennis star Jelena Ostapenko has denied she was racist after reportedly telling Taylor Townsend she has “no class” and “no education” during a fiery exchange at the US Open. The pair clashed at the side of the court at Flushing Meadows in New York following Towsend’s 7-5 6-...
Kim Jong Un will join Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a major military parade in Beijing next week, North Korean and Chinese state media have announced. The dictator will make the rare trip abroad as China marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Mr Putin’s presence had alre...
Two children have been killed and 17 other people injured after a shooter opened fire at a school in Minneapolis. The shooter – Robin Westman – opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a church at Annunciation Catholic School and struck a group of children as they sat in pews on Wedne...
All members of the United Nations Security Council – except the United States – have said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis”. In a joint statement, the 14 council members warned the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law. They c...
The wrongly-deported man who has become a flashpoint for Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-immigration efforts wants to seek asylum in the US, his lawyers have said. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30, was detained in Baltimore on Monday by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement after he left a jail in Tenness...
South Korea has passed a bill to ban the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms nationwide, amid growing concerns about the effect of social media on young people. The ban, approved on Wednesday and set to take effect in March next year, makes South Korea the latest country...
Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top US diplomat in the country over a report alleging that people connected to Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. The move to summon the American charge d’affaires came after Denmark’s national broadcaste...
A “weird”, heavily armoured dinosaur just became stranger than palaeontologists even realised, following the discovery of new fossils. The Spicomellus, a 165-million-year-old type of armoured dinosaur famous for its tail weapon, was covered in shields and huge spikes, with some even fused to...
Israeli tanks have reportedly destroyed houses and caused people to flee after pushing into a new area of Gaza City overnight – as Donald Trump is expected to chair a meeting on the war later today. Several people were wounded and many others were forced to flee deeper into Gaza’s largest ci...
A portrait by an Italian master that was looted by the Nazis during the Second World War may have resurfaced for the first time in 80 years – after it was apparently spotted in a property listing. Argentinian police raided the villa in the coastal town of Mar del Plata, which is around 250 miles ....
A suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously injured a third in Australia’s rural south-east has been identified, police said. A manhunt is underway for Dezi Freeman, 56, who is heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria state’s chief commission...
The family of a British man held in India without trial for seven years for alleged corruption has demanded the government intervene to secure his release. Christian Michel, 63, has been held since 2018, accused of bribing Indian officials to win a multimillion-dollar helicopter contract. He denies the...
Two children, aged eight and 10, have been killed in a shooting during mass at a school in Minneapolis. An attacker opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a church at Annunciation Catholic School and struck a group of children as they sat in pews on Wednesday morning. The FBI has confirmed the...
Nadav is tired, frustrated and haunted, yet he smiles when we meet. For 690 days, he has been waiting for the world to change, and he’s still waiting, and hoping. Back on 7 October 2023, his father Tal was seized by Hamas and taken to Gaza. Tal is now dead – it’s not clear when ...
A hospital in Gaza that was hit in an Israeli strike, killing 20 people including five journalists, has rejected the Israeli military’s claim it struck the facility because it was targeting what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera as well as people identified as militants. The statement wa...
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has condemned Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital as “a premeditated strike on medics and journalists”. The envoy’s comments are the latest condemnation of the 25 August attack that killed 22 people, including five journalists. They...
A 16-year-old has been convicted in Germany for supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The teenager, named Mohammad A, who cannot be fully identified under Germany’s privacy laws, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terroris...
“Our world has fallen apart, and we want justice,” says Nehal, her eyes welling up. “We lost four members of our family. I can’t even tell you what we’ve been through. Just thinking of it makes me cry.” Nehal’s 32-year-old brother Girish, a British resident from...
Three people have been killed and at least 13 others injured in a typhoon in Vietnam, authorities said. Typhoon Kajiki hit Vietnam‘s north central coast on Monday, damaging nearly 7,000 homes, felling 18,000 trees and flooding thousands of hectares of rice plantings. Among the three victims are a...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Iran of organising two antisemitic attacks in Australia. Mr Albanese said the Australian security intelligence organisation (ASIO) found that the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on a kosher food company in Sydney and on a Melbourne syn...
Police are responding to an “active incident” in a rural town in Australia. Victoria Police have confirmed that an incident is under way at a property in Porepunkah, around 300km (186 miles) northeast of Melbourne. Local media, citing unnamed sources, are reporting that two officers have bee...
It was Donald Trump’s first meeting with the new president of South Korea. A highly unconventional platform for glowing words about the North Korean one. As he sat across from Lee Jae Myung, Mr Trump said he got along “great” with Kim Jong Un and would like to meet him again “thi...
It is an innocuous term for a horrible tactic. A “double tap” sounds so innocent and unthreatening. In fact, it is a term saved for a particularly brutal kind of attack. And so it seems was the fate of those who died in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. First one strike hit the ...
Donald Trump has said he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again. Speaking at the White House as he held talks with the new South Korean president Lee Jae Myung, Mr Trump told reporters: “I’d like to meet him this year… I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong Un in the ...
A man who was wrongly deported from the US to El Salvador has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) again. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 30-year-old originally from El Salvador, handed himself into the ICE field office in Baltimore, Maryland, for a check-in on Monday. The visit was a mand...
Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza have killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, according to the Gaza health ministry and the media organisations the journalists worked for. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was struck twice on Monday in what has been described as a “double...
Ukrainians say they are in danger of losing the drone arms race with Russia and need more help. And that is worrying not just for Ukraine, because the drone is becoming the likely weapon of choice in other future conflicts. Sky News has been given exclusive access to a Ukrainian drone factory to watch i...
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, and airports and schools closed as Vietnam prepares for its strongest typhoon this year. Typhoon Kajiki, which has winds of up to 103mph, was due to hit Vietnam‘s central Thanh Hoa and Ha Tinh on Monday. It has already caused devastation in sout...
The sole surviving guest of a lunch where three others died after being served food laced with toxic mushrooms has told an Australian court that the actions of murderer Erin Patterson have left him feeling “half alive”. Ian Wilkinson, who received a liver transplant and spent months in hospi...
Israel says it has carried out strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. The attacks happened after the Iranian-backed militants said they fired a ballistic missile towards Israel on Friday. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Sunday it struck the regime’s “...
Several bands have pulled out from the Victorious music festival just hours before their scheduled performances, following claims by Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers that they were “cut off” for displaying a Palestinian flag. The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords, and The Academic announced on...
Israel pounded the outskirts of Gaza City overnight, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government vowed to press on with a planned offensive on the city. Families streamed out of the city as the explosions hit. “I stopped counting the times I had to take my wife and three daughters and leave my home i...
Legendary boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. will stand trial over alleged cartel ties and arms trafficking, his lawyer has said. A Mexican court has granted a three-month extension for further investigation into the case, according to Chávez’s lawyer, Rubén Fernando Benítez Alvarez. He said the claims...
Thousands of Australians protested in support of Palestine on Sunday, two weeks after the country announced it would recognise a Palestinian state. More than 40 protests took place across the country, according to Palestine Action Group, an Australian organisation. Image: Pic: Reuters The group said ar...
The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent sex trafficking accusers, have said they are “outraged” over the US Department of Justice’s release of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell – a convicted sex trafficker and ex-girlfriend...
