The Canadian government has refused the latest request for an apology to British children abused in the country. Campaigners for youngsters shipped to Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries have petitioned the country’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to apologise for their mistreatment. His governme...
Vladimir Putin has been cheered by large crowds in central Moscow after securing his fifth term as Russian president – in what Western nations have condemned as an “undemocratic” election. Thousands of people had gathered for an open-air concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the...
US President Joe Biden and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu have held their first phone call in a month, amid warnings of an “imminent famine” in northern Gaza. It comes as a group of aid agencies warned that an estimated 70% of the population in northern Gaza faced catastrophic hu...
At least 12 people have been killed in the latest wave of violence in Haiti after armed gangs went on the rampage in two affluent areas of the capital, as chaos grips the poverty-stricken Caribbean country. Gunmen looted homes in Laboule and Thomassin early on Monday, with desperate residents fleeing an...
Britain’s car industry has insisted that an unprecedented 2,000% increase in vehicle exports to Azerbaijan has nothing to with Russia and is explained by the fact that the former Soviet state is a “flourishing market in its own right”. Sky analysis has found that the British car sector...
Now the three-day electoral spectacle is done – a shiny semblance of democracy, unfree, unfair and underpinned by Soviet-style repressions – what is next for Vladimir Putin and for the country he leads? Expect the state to clamp down still further on what remains of Russia‘s enfeebled...
Eyewitnesses have suggested that Israeli forces have launched a “reinvasion” of Gaza City after the al Shifa hospital was raided overnight. Residents said military activity had not stopped after the hospital raid, which the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israel Securities Authority (ISA) s...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called for immediate action after Trabzonspor fans attacked the players of Fenerbahce during “shocking” violence in Turkey. Fenerbahce were celebrating their 3-2 victory in Trabzon when supporters invaded the pitch – forcing the players to defend the...
A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon in Australia. The aircraft had only been in the air for around 30 minutes when the passenger went over the side of its basket above the city of Melbourne on Monday. Police said the man’s body was found in a residential street at around ...
Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in an election he said showed the people had “trust” and “hope” in him. Sunday was the last day of a presidential election that offered Russians no real alternatives to Mr Putin after he ruthlessly cracked down on dissent. Early returns after th...
A 31-year-old woman from Belarus has died after being chased by a bear in Slovakia’s Low Tatras mountain range. The woman was walking with a 29-year-old man when the couple came across the bear on Friday evening. The pair ran in opposite directions, and the man lost sight of the woman as she was c...
A Holocaust survivor who spent much of his life educating people about the Nazi atrocity has been remembered as a “force for good” following his death at the age of 100. Henry Wuga’s death was confirmed by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on Sunday, with chief executive Olivia Marks-Wo...
Indian YouTuber Elvish Yadav has been arrested for allegedly supplying snake venom to be used as a recreational drug at raves. The influencer, who has 15 million YouTube subscribers, was detained under the Wildlife Act, according to Indian broadcaster NDTV. A party he was at in November was raided on th...
A defiant Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with a long-expected assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite international criticism. The Israeli prime minister was speaking on Sunday following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he reiterated his promise to “eliminat...
People have thronged the streets of cities across Ireland and the UK to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. In Dublin, tens of thousands of people, many decked out in shamrock glasses, Irish flags and leprechaun hats, lined the streets for the capital’s parade. More than 4,200 people took part in th...
Sudan could be just weeks away from a catastrophic hunger crisis, aid workers have warned, as community volunteers struggle to feed the hungry amid security restrictions and armed violence. War between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its former security partners the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupte...
The alarm came loud and long – piercing and insistent. And when I opened our hotel bedroom door seconds later, there were already hotel workers running down the corridor. A window immediately opposite our room held the answer for the urgent reaction. It was filled with a huge orange glow of a mush...
Across three days of voting there have been scattered incidents of Russians defying authorities in acts of protest against Vladimir Putin. The president is all but assured to win another six-year term in office, facing a lack of any credible opposition and amid reports of voting irregularities. Despite...
Grant Shapps was forced to abandon a visit to a port city in Ukraine after British intelligence warned of a credible missile threat from Russia. Officials told the defence secretary Russia had become aware of his travel plans to Odesa, where a convoy carrying Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime...
A volcano in Iceland erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December after previous eruptions destroyed roads and forced a town to evacuate. Livestreams from the area showed fountains of molten rock soaring from fissures in the ground. Authorities had warned for weeks that an eruption was imminen...
Shakira has said she put her “career on hold” for a long time to be with her former partner Gerard Pique while he played football. The Colombian popstar and former professional Spanish footballer were together for 11 years before announcing their separation in June 2022 and have two childre...
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says the Middle East is at “a tipping point” and “words are not enough” from the United States. Speaking ahead of the annual White House reception marking St Patrick’s Day, she told Sky News that America had got it “dangerously wr...
Ireland are celebrating another Six Nations title win with a 17-13 victory over Scotland in Dublin. It is their fifth title in 11 years, having endured a drought of more than two decades between 1985 and 2009. Dan Sheehan and Andrew Porter scored tries for the hosts in Dublin, who have now won back-to-b...
India is to elect a new parliament in what is the largest democratic exercise with 970 million registered voters. The Indian Election Commission said on Saturday that the elections will take place in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June, stretched over 44 days. The gigantic exercise will be conducted by...
Boxing great Roberto Duran is receiving medical care for a heart problem, his family have said. The former undisputed world champion, 72, “has suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade”, they said in a statement. His family added they are waiting for results before t...
Kim Jong Un has taken a ride in a luxury black limousine gifted to him by Vladimir Putin. The high-end motorcar is likely a token of appreciation from the Russian president for the purported million or more shells that North Korea has sold to Moscow. Although both countries deny Pyongyang is supplying s...
A million out of control mice that are feasting on seabirds and causing havoc on a remote island are to be exterminated. The whiskered rodents were accidentally introduced to Marion Island 200 years ago and are breeding wildly as climate change raises temperatures. Now conservationists are taking drasti...
US air safety officials are investigating a Boeing 737-800 plane that was missing a panel when the United Airlines flight landed on Friday. The Federal Aviation Authority is probing United Airlines Flight 433, which left San Francisco and landed in Oregon on Friday. It was carrying 139 passengers and si...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has secured a 33% pay rise to run world football which meant his salary exceeded £3.6m last year, Sky News has found. The increase during the Women’s World Cup year featured deep in financial documents approved by the FIFA Council yesterday and sent to global footba...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and US President Joe Biden have agreed on the need for a ceasefire “as soon as possible” in Gaza and a two-state solution for Palestinians during talks in Washington on Friday. Mr Varadkar met the US President, as part of the Taoiseach’s traditional St...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly approved plans for a military operation in Rafah which includes the evacuation of the population. Now all eyes are on Washington where red lines (albeit blurry ones) have been set by President Joe Biden. Last month, the president said that Israel...
A Russian opposition politician who was barred from running in the presidential election has told Sky News he will not meet the same fate as Alexei Navalny because he does not cross political “red lines”. Boris Nadezhdin, who served in the State Duma between 1999 and 2003 and has been a long...
The inventor of karaoke, Shigeichi Negishi, has died at the age of 100. The Tokyo-based entrepreneur was the first person to automate and commercialise karaoke in 1967 when his ‘Sparko Box’ went on sale. Author Matt Alt, who interviewed the entrepreneur in 2018 for his book Pure Invention: H...
As Russians go to the polls, the outcome is certainly already written as Vladimir Putin runs pretty much uncontested in his bid for a fifth term in office. Opposition candidates were banned from standing, fled the country or are dead – like Mr Putin’s most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny. S...
Olympic chiefs hope a world divided by coronavirus and conflict can be united by cardboard and condoms. In the city of love – with pandemic-era Olympic restrictions over – Paris 2024 is encouraging amour among athletes again. After the keys were handed over, Sky News joined Games chiefs on i...
Finland is planning to adopt temporary legislation that will allow authorities to block asylum seekers arriving from Russia, the government has said. It comes after the country closed all crossings on its shared 830-mile-long border late last year, after a growing number of people with a lack of valid d...
For weeks, the ceasefire talks have been at a virtual standstill – not completely broken down but with little movement to report. Hamas’s new proposal though, is a potential – albeit small – breakthrough in the deadlock. Until now, Hamas had insisted on a permanent ceasefire and...
Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been convicted of sexual harassment and given an eight-month suspended prison sentence by a court in South Korea. The 79-year-old actor, who was charged with two counts of sexual harassment in 2017, had denied the allegations. The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Cou...
Applications are open to work in Antarctica’s famous ‘penguin post office’. Successful applicants will be ‘self-motivated’, ’empathetic’ and fine with showering once every two weeks. The shop in Port Lockroy is the southernmost post office in the world and frequ...
A federal judge has rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out a criminal case that charges him with illegally holding on to classified documents after leaving the White House. US District Judge Aileen Cannon issued the ruling after a day-long hearing in Florida during which the former president’...
Russia embarks this Friday on three days of voting to reconfirm the inevitable, which is another six-year presidential term for Vladimir Putin. Given the fact this is simply a matter of going through the motions for Putin and for the public, why does it matter and why does his administration go to such...
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid in two separate Israeli attacks, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The first incident on Thursday saw eight people killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution centre in Al-Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, they said. Lat...
Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel has had his murder conviction overturned, after a London court ruled a juror’s attempts to bribe the trial jury had made the conviction unsafe. The musician, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, has been in a Jamaican jail since 2011 over the disappearance of his a...
The most senior Jewish politician in the US has labelled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an obstacle to peace and urged him to call an election. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who has long been a supporter of Israel, said on the Senate floor that Mr Netanyahu‘s government “n...
Northern Ireland’s first minister has urged the United States to bring the same critical approach to pursuing a ceasefire in the Middle East that it once brought to Northern Ireland. Michelle O’Neill and her power-sharing partner, Emma Little-Pengelly, the deputy first minister, are on a tra...
In the early months of the Iraq war in 2003, around 88 British troops were deployed to the Qarmat Ali water treatment plant to provide round-the-clock security. What the soldiers didn’t know was that while on duty, they were being exposed to a carcinogenic chemical used to maintain the pipes in th...
A Holocaust survivor in Belgium says she knows Jewish people who have packed their bags ready to flee amid a spike in antisemitism. Regina Sluszny, 84, from Antwerp, says incidents have rocketed since the outbreak of the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas. Authorities in the city, which has the la...
An alleged cult leader claiming to be a prophet has been arrested after 251 children being used for cheap labour were rescued from a compound in Zimbabwe. Police said Ishmael Chokurongerwa, 56, was leading an apostolic sect with more than 1,000 members at a farm about 21 miles northwest of the capital,...
An American woman has died after getting caught in a conveyor while trying to recover an AirPod she dropped under it, authorities say. Alyssa Drinkard, 21, dropped the AirPod below the conveyor while on shift at a plant for Club Car in Georgia at around 9.45pm on Friday, according to an incident report...