The reopening of the Rafah crossing feels like it should be an important moment. Symbolically, it is. From Sunday, people will be able to cross from Gaza to Egypt, and back again. Sort of. As ever, the headline is one thing and the detail is quite another. The Rafah Crossing will be open, but in ...

​​​​​​​Pep Guardiola has given a passionate speech in support of Palestinian children and called for action. The Manchester City manager missed his usual pre-weekend news conference on Friday after speaking at a charity concert in Barcelona on Thursday evening. Guardiola wore a keffiyeh scarf as he spok...

China has lifted restrictions on some British MPs and peers and will now allow all parliamentarians to visit the country, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking to Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister said the sanctions have been a “real cause for concern across parliament...

Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez has signed a law opening the country’s oil sector to privatisation. The National Assembly approved the bill to lure in foreign investment on Thursday – as the US eased sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry. The move authorises US firm...

Donald Trump has endorsed a spending deal negotiated by US Senate Republicans and Democrats that would stave off a government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security. The move comes as the US reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis....

Donald Trump has endorsed a spending deal negotiated by US Senate Republicans and Democrats that would stave off a government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security. The move comes as the US reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis....

Northeast Syria is rapidly changing hands, and with it the country’s fragile balance of power. For more than a decade, Kurdish authorities governed this region with a high degree of autonomy. Now, Kurdish leaders warn that their way of life – and their political future – is under serio...

The broken banks of the Limpopo River are now faint snaking lines in a vast sea of brown, stagnant water that stretches out in every direction. Our view, from a Mercy Air helicopter delivering food aid to starving communities surrounded by submerged farms in southern Mozambique‘s Gaza province, is...

A man has been charged with impersonating an FBI agent after he turned up to a New York jail claiming to have a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities have said.  Mark Anderson, 36, from Minnesota, was arrested at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where Mangione, 27, is being hel...

A seven-year-old girl is missing after she was “swept away by a wave” in Morocco, an MP has said. The girl, who is from Blackburn in Lancashire and was named locally as Inaayah Makda, on holiday with her family in the coastal city of Casablanca when she vanished on Wednesday. In a post on so...

Let’s be frank, in China the UK is not seen as a particularly big or important player. It’s seen as a middling power at best, one that does have some advantages to offer, particularly in the service and knowledge economies, but one that has a greatly diminished global impact, particularly in...

At least 11 people have been killed in a crash between a truck and a minibus taxi in South Africa – the second such incident in recent days. It happened near Durban, in the country’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province. Local transport department official Siboniso Duma said 11 people had died and...

China has executed 11 members of a mafia family for killing 14 people and running a crime syndicate worth more than $1bn, authorities said.  In September, the Ming family members, including Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming and Luao Jianzhang, were sentenced to death for a host of...

A small passenger plane has crashed in northern Colombia, killing all 15 people on board, including a congressman. Rescuers located the crash site and “regrettably confirmed that there were no survivors”, Colombia‘s transportation ministry said. Two crew members and 13 passengers...

In Iran, the climate of fear has been restored after the clerics who run this country successfully crushed nationwide revolt. Yet their determination to stay in power is matched by their efforts to conceal what has happened. Trump threatens Tehran – latest updates Iran‘s communications black...

Tyson Fury has confirmed his return to boxing with a comeback fight against Arslanbek Makhmudov. The 37-year-old heavyweight boxer announced his retirement a year ago in the wake of successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk. Fury plans to fight three times this year and has been training in Thailand ahead of...

Airports across Asia have put urgent steps in place to stop the spread of a highly lethal virus. Temperature screening has been set up by authorities in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia after two cases of Nipah virus were detected in India in late December. The Indian health ministry said in a statement...

Heavy rain has tiggered a landslide in southern Sicily causing the edge of a town to collapse and forcing the evacuation of more than 1,500 people. On Wednesday, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited the town of Niscemi, where dozens of houses were left teetering on the edge of a cliff after the ground...

Amazon has told staff it plans to cut around 16,000 jobs globally as part of efforts to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy across the business. Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at the company, said in a message to employees: “I recognise this is dif...

The wife of South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol – who was ousted over a martial law bid – has been jailed for 20 months for corruption. Former first lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced on Wednesday for receiving luxury gifts including a Graff diamond necklace and a Chanel bag from...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute after a minister was killed in a plane crash which left no survivors. Ajit Pawar and four other people were travelling on the private plane from India’s financial capital, Mumbai, to the minister’s home city, Baramati, when it crashed. Ima...

Donald Trump has said his administration will look to “de-escalate” in Minneapolis after the “very unfortunate” killing of Alex Pretti – but said he should not have been carrying a gun. Mr Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot dead by ICE agents at the weekend, just wee...

👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 It’s been a month since a wave of protests spread across Iran, followed by a brutal government crackdown. With the country under an internet blackout, it’s still unclear how many have been killed – Richard and...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer poked fun at his French counterpart on Tuesday – by putting on a pair of sunglasses at an event before saying, “bonjour”.  The joke was a reference to President Emmanuel Macron’s now viral wearing of Top Gun-style aviator sunglasses at the Worl...

Coco Gauff has called for more privacy for tennis players after being caught on camera smashing her racket in an off-court players’ area following her Australian Open quarter-final loss to Elina Svitolina on Tuesday. After the loss, the 21-year-old two-time major winner, said she “tried to g...

A captain has been confronted in a trial over the “serious and obvious” risk of death posed when his container ship collided with an anchored US oil tanker. Both were laden with flammable goods. Russian national Vladimir Motin, 59, had been on sole watch duty last March when the Solong crash...

Europe’s most prominent rabbi has told Sky News he holds Iran responsible for the rise of antisemitism in recent years and believes European countries must do much more to support Iranian protesters in overthrowing the Tehran regime. Speaking on Holocaust Memorial Day, Pinchas Goldschmidt, preside...

Rwanda is suing the UK for failing to formally terminate the controversial agreement.  It emerged on Tuesday that the east African country is seeking £50m in compensation, The Telegraph reported. The Rwanda scheme would have involved some asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda to have their asylum claims p...

It doesn’t feel all that long ago that David Cameron took the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub. But a lot has changed in the 10 years since that photo op, the so-called “golden era” of UK-China relations. It’s fair to say things have been on something...

British police have helped in seizing a record nine-tonne haul of cocaine from a ‘narco sub’ in the Atlantic Ocean. The mammoth seizure weighed nearly as much as a school bus and was just 230 nautical miles from the its destination on the Azores archipelago when it was intercepted. The semi-...

A major heatwave gripping southeast Australia has brought record-breaking temperatures of close to 50C. The rural towns of Hopetoun and Walpeup in Victoria registered preliminary highs of 48.9C which, if confirmed overnight, would beat records set on the day in 2009 when 173 people were killed in the st...

The border commander who has emerged as the face of the Trump administration’s ICE operation in Minneapolis is poised to leave the city, reports Sky’s US partner network NBC News. Gregory Bovino and some of his immigration enforcement agents are set to depart on Tuesday, a White House offici...

Ran Gvili was one of the first Israelis killed on 7 October 2023 when Hamas fighters poured into Israel and launched their ferocious attack. His body was taken to Gaza, and there it remained. “First in, last out,” was the comment from the forum representing the hostages’ families. It w...

The remains of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza have been found. The Israel Defence Forces said in a statement it had retrieved the body of Ran Gvili and that his family had been informed. Identification of the remains was confirmed by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in cooperation with the...

The sound of deep, slow breaths echoes up a frozen staircase, followed by footsteps. Tatiana, 70, has learnt to control her breathing to reduce the strain on her heart as she slowly zigzags her way to the ninth floor of a large apartment block in Kyiv, where she lives. Power cuts mean the lifts are ...

Israel is carrying out a “focused operation” to find the body of the last remaining hostage in Gaza – and has agreed to a “limited” reopening of the Rafah crossing between the territory and Egypt once the operation has ended. An Israeli military official said there were...

An eight-year-old boy kidnapped for organ removal is among 4,414 people police say have been safeguarded from human trafficking in a global operation. The child, from Mozambique, was discovered as part of the Interpol co-ordinated initiative dubbed Operation Liberterra III, which involved more than 14,0...

In a bombshell announcement, China’s Ministry of Defence has said it is investigating General Zhang Youxia, China’s most senior general and a man who was second only to Xi Jinping himself on China’s top military decision-making body. His removal marks the most senior scalp taken in a s...

At least 15 people have died after a ferry sank in the southern Philippines overnight. Coast guard officials said that the M/V Trisha Kerstin 3 was sailing to southern Jolo island in Sulu province from the port city of Zamboanga when it apparently encountered technical problems. The inter-island vessel...

A new mural warning the US not to launch a military strike on Iran has been unveiled in a square in central Tehran. The painted image features damaged planes on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with the slogan: “If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind,” in Farsi and English. T...

American climber Alex Honnold ascended one of the world’s tallest buildings on Sunday without a rope or protective equipment.  The 40-year-old free solo climber – a term used to describe those who tackle ascents without ropes – took just over 90 minutes to scale the Taipei 101 skyscrap...

Novak Djokovic has apologised after almost hitting a ball girl with the ball during his history-making Australian Open third-round match on Saturday.  Djokovic, a 24-time Grand Slam champion, recorded a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp at Melbourne Park to become the first...

Fresh talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine could take place “as early as next week”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Trilateral negotiations took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on Friday and Saturday, which were “productive” and “constructive” accordin...

Uganda’s opposition leader claims “hundreds of soldiers” raided his home overnight and held his wife at gunpoint, leaving destruction everywhere. Bobi Wine says his wife was assaulted and documents and electronic items were taken from his home. He made the claims on X on Saturday morni...

At least eight people have been killed and more than 80 others are missing following a landslide on Indonesia’s Java island.  The landslide happened on Saturday in the West Bandung district of West Java province, after days of torrential rain caused river banks to burst. Eight bodies were pulled f...

Dozens of people are still missing following a landslide on Indonesia’s Java island on Saturday that killed at least 25 people. The search continues for 72 people who are believed to have been buried under tonnes of mud, rocks and uprooted trees after the landslide, triggered by days of torrential...

From the Northern Lights to the aftermath of protests in Iran, here are the images of the week chosen by the Sky News picture editors. Image: Pic: AP A Russian Orthodox believer bathes in the icy water of a pond in St Petersburg to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany. Image: Pic: AP Hindu devotees gather wh...

An Australian boy attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour has died in hospital, his family has announced. Nico Antic, 12, was bitten last Sunday after he and friends jumped off rocks in Vaucluse, around five miles from the city’s business district. Nico was pulled from the water by friends and taken...

Donald Trump has paid tribute to the “very brave” British soldiers who served in Afghanistan after fierce criticism of his claim non-US troops had stayed back from the frontline. He said Britons “were among the greatest of all warriors” as he acknowledged the 457 who died and man...

China is no longer the US Pentagon’s top priority, shifting its focus to the homeland and Western Hemisphere, an influential new strategy document says. Where it had been viewed under former president Joe Biden as a top adversary, Beijing is now seen as a settled force in the Indo-Pacific region t...