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Thousands have fled parts of Gaza City in recent days amid airstrikes and advancing Israeli troops, new satellite imagery shows. Israel’s advance comes as it prepares to mount a full-scale invasion of the city, where the UN says around one million Palestinians are sheltering. Satellite imagery sho...
The family of a British couple, detained in Iran on espionage charges, says they are “seriously worried” after the pair were moved to the country’s “harshest prisons”. Lindsay and Craig Foreman were seized in Kerman, in central Iran, in early January while on a round-the-wo...
A man suspected of ramming a car into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has been charged with murder. Five women and a boy died in the attack on 20 December, and many more people were wounded. Prosecutors have also charged the suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi doctor, with 338 counts of atte...
One of Sweden’s most famous wooden churches is being moved to a new site – to prevent it from being swallowed by the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine. The Kiruna Church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, and its belfry, are being moved this week along a three-mile route east to...
A latest Gaza ceasefire proposal approved by Hamas is “almost identical” to that put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, a spokesperson for Qatar’s foreign ministry has said. The proposal would see a 60-day truce and 28 hostages – including 10 who are still alive – r...
A woman who was sexually assaulted on a flight to London has challenged government rules that disqualify her from a compensation scheme. The woman, who has maintained her anonymity and is referred to as Kelly, was attacked while she slept on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Gatwick in September last...
Kim Jong Un has toured his country’s latest battleship – three months after he lambasted the botched launch of another vessel. The North Korean leader inspected the 5,000-tonne destroyer Choe Hyon, first unveiled in April, at the western port of Nampo. He was pictured on deck, in the captain...
It’s always wise to let the dust settle before reaching conclusions with this presidency. But on the face of it we are further away from peace now than we were two weeks ago. The consensus that was held back then was that Vladimir Putin would only relent under maximum pressure. He does not want sl...
Vladimir Putin wasn’t at the White House but his influence clearly was. At times, it dominated the room. There were three key moments that revealed the Russian president‘s current hold over Donald Trump. The first was in the Oval Office. Sitting alongside Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US presiden...
Talks between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders have taken place at the White House, aimed at finding an end to the war in Ukraine. On the agenda were US security guarantees, whether a ceasefire is required, and a potential summit between the Ukrainian president and Vladimir Putin....
There is a sizeable gap between the ceasefire deal that Hamas has agreed to, and the demands laid down by the Israeli government. The question is whether Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to negotiate. Egyptian and Qatari mediators have been holding talks with Hamas in their latest effort to broker a ceasefir...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump have started their talks at the White House. The Ukrainian president and his American counterpart shook hands upon Mr Zelenskyy’s arrival at the White House. The greeting was friendly, with Mr Trump putting his arm around Mr Zelenskyy’s shoulder for a bri...
The son of Norway’s crown princess has been charged with rape and domestic violence, among other crimes, a prosecutor said. Marius Borg Hoiby, the oldest son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charges, according to Oslo state attorne...
Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire-hostage deal with Israel, according to a senior official. Egyptian and Qatari mediators have been holding talks with Hamas in their latest effort to broker a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza. The Hamas official did not provide further details of the agreement or what had bee...
👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈 Donald Trump wants to set up a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. How would that work? And would it accelerate peace in Ukraine? Zelenskyy and other European leaders made their way to Washing...
Party leaders in the UK’s devolved nations have called on Sir Keir Starmer to impose immediate sanctions on Israel and said waiting until September to recognise a Palestinian state is “far too late”. The leaders and senior politicians from parties in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wale...
Watchmaker Swatch has apologised and pulled ads featuring an Asian male model pulling the corners of his eyes backwards following accusations of racism. Images for the Swatch Essentials collection were criticised for the “slanted eye” pose, especially in China, with many commentators saying...
Blindfolded and under armed guard, a captured ISIS fighter is brought before us. When the blindfold is removed, he doesn’t look surprised to see a camera crew and several counterterrorism officers, one of whom interrogated him when he was first caught. The 24-year-old militant is on death row in S...
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly demands that he be given control of the whole of the Donbas as part – and only part – of his price for any peace deal with Ukraine. The area referred to as “the Donbas” consists of two regions. Russian forces currently occupy almost all...
Truly, this is a moment as important as it is unusual. History does not provide us a guide here. Never before have we seen so many world leaders gather at such short notice for a meeting like this at the White House, and with a president as consequential as he is unpredictable. The speed with which ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy could “end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to”, Donald Trump has said – ahead of crucial White House talks on the future of Ukraine. Mr Trump made the comment in a series of social media posts throwing forward to his meeting with the Ukrainian pr...
When Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European allies meet Donald Trump in Washington, a huge amount is at stake. Ukrainian officials are reported to feel betrayed by the US president, who appears to have shifted position to side with Vladimir Putin on a number of key points in the wake of the meeting with h...
Spain has deployed a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have spread across parts of the country in scorching conditions – taking the total number of troops to 1,900. The fires have burned 158,000 hectares so far this year, according to the EU’s European Forest Fire Information Sys...
The coordinates came through last minute. The instruction was to get there fast. People organising demonstrations, blocking motorways and major intersections, did not want police getting wind of their plans. The one we found ourselves at, near the town of Lod, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, fel...
Tear gas was deployed in the latest violent clash between protesters and police in Serbia. Tensions soared in the Balkan nation on Saturday after a group of young men wearing scarves over their faces threw flares at President Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party offices in Valjevo, 100km (...
More than 30 people have been arrested in Israel for “disruption of order” as families of hostages held in Gaza step up their campaign with a nationwide strike. Protestors are demanding the Israel government make a deal to secure the release of hostages held by militants in Gaza. The campaig...
A posse of European leaders will join the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington. Ursula von der Leyen said she will join the talk “at the request of President Zelenskyy”, adding that she “and other European leaders” will be meeting at the White House...
There will be no red carpet or fly past, no round of applause when Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Washington DC on Monday. But the bitter memory of his last visit to the White House will feature prominently in the Ukrainian president’s thoughts. In February, he was mocked for not wearing a suit an...
Vladimir Putin made demands to take control of key regions of Ukraine during his talks with Donald Trump, it has been widely reported, as a condition for ending the war. During their summit in Alaska, the Russian leader is said to have told the US president he wants the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regio...
European leaders who make up the ‘coalition of the willing’ are set to hold a conference call on Sunday – ahead of crunch talks between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy next week. The coalition – co-chaired by Sir Keir Starmer, France’s President Emmanue...
A hurricane making its way past the Caribbean Sea has quickly turned into a major storm, after rapidly strengthening in just 24 hours. Hurricane Erin – the first of the 2025 Atlantic season – raced from maximum sustained winds of 100mph (160kph) to heights of 160mph (255kph), before weakenin...
In the Al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza City, nine-year-old Maryam Dawas is wasting away. WARNING: This shows people suffering from malnutrition which you may find distressing Her malnutrition is so severe, she can no longer eat. Her tiny ribcage juts out of her chest. Her upper arms are thinner than her w...
For Vladimir Putin, this really couldn’t have gone much better. From the red carpet to the flypast – the indicted war criminal was feted like a king. The only other places that have welcomed him like this in recent years are the likes of China and North Korea, Russia’s old friends. It...
More than 300 people have been killed by flash flooding across Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir, local authorities say. Rescuers began a third day of scouring the mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwestern Pakistan, while others looked for missing people in the Kishtwar district of Indian-cont...
Hand pats, manspreading and tell-tale signs of discontent – there was plenty on display in the body language of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to show who had the upper hand in their Ukraine negotiations, an expert has told Sky News. All eyes were on the two world leaders as they met on the red ....
The clear winner in Alaska is Vladimir Putin. A day in a global spotlight, equal billing with a true superpower leader, a red carpet welcome and most importantly for him no need to agree to a ceasefire. He can fly home knowing Donald Trump has handed him a propaganda bonanza. Russian media which he con...
Donald Trump landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with the aspiration of departing a few hours later hailed as a peacemaker and a deal broker. Instead, he returns to Washington having let an international pariah back in from the cold and seemingly received precious little in return. If President Vl...
The presidents of the United States and Russia wrapped up critical talks in Alaska without reaching a deal on ending the war in Ukraine. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were on the ground in Anchorage, Alaska, for only about six hours, but the historic yet inconclusive summit still produced some memora...
Thousands more Afghan nationals may have been affected by another data breach, the government has said. Up to 3,700 Afghans brought to the UK between January and March 2024 have potentially been impacted as names, passport details and information from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy has bee...
All eyes were on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as they met for the first time in more than six years, the Russian president visiting the US for high-stakes talks anticipated beforehand to potentially shape the war in Ukraine. The two leaders greeted each other with a handshake after stepping off their...
A warm handshake, big smiles, and a red carpet – this was the welcome for Vladimir Putin as he touched down on US soil for critical negotiations on the war in Ukraine. There had been much build-up to the summit in Anchorage, Alaska, not least from Donald Trump himself – with the US president...
No deal has been reached to end the war in Ukraine – but Donald Trump has said there are “many points” he and Vladimir Putin agreed on during their highly anticipated summit. Following the meeting in Alaska, which lasted more than two-and-a-half hours, the two leaders gave a short medi...
Two people have been injured after a shooting near a mosque in southern Sweden, police have said. Police in the city of Orebro, around 125 miles (200km) west of the capital, Stockholm, have opened an attempted murder investigation after what they said was probably a gang-related incident and are searchi...
Flash flooding has killed at least 224 people in India and Pakistan over the last 24 hours, according to local officials. Dozens more are missing after torrential rains struck two mountainous districts in the neighbouring countries. Some 1,600 people have been brought to safety. In India-controlled Kash...
The spectacle of Israel’s Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliating perhaps the most popular of all Palestinians in his prison cell was as unedifying as the national security minister’s extremist politics. “You won’t win. Whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children,...
Ukraine says there will be no let-up in its punishing long-range drone attacks on Russia until Moscow agrees to peace. The warning comes ahead of Vladimir Putin meeting Donald Trump in Alaska. Ukraine war latest: Trump prepares for summit with Putin It was made in a rare interview with one of the key co...
The African Union (AU) has backed a campaign to end the use of a 16th-century map in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. The Mercator projection of the world distorts the sizes of some continents, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinkin...
India’s Prime Minister has warned Pakistan it will not succumb to, or tolerate, nuclear blackmail. In Narendra Modi’s 12th consecutive speech from the ramparts of Delhi’s iconic Red Fort, he addressed the nation celebrating its 79th Independence Day from colonial Britain. He laid empha...
A teenager who stabbed a British mother to death in Australia after breaking into her home will be eligible for early release after successfully appealing against his sentence. Emma Lovell was killed in North Lakes, Queensland, on Boxing Day in 2022 while fending off two intruders with her husband. The...
On the Alaska governor’s desk, the horned skull of a musk ox, an ice age relic, is proudly displayed, resting on a collage of pictures of the state. It was hunted by Mike Dunleavy himself on a trip to an island in the Bering Sea, the narrow strait of water which separates the US from ...
