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A South Korean court has sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison after he imposed martial law in the country in 2024. Yoon was found guilty of abuse of authority and masterminding an insurrection, stemming from his mobilisation of military and police forces in an illegal attempt to se...
Donald Trump told protesters in Iran that “help was coming” little over a month ago. But there was almost no US military presence that would have made a difference in the region. On 22 January, he said there was a ‘great armada’ assembling, when what he was referring to was the a...
A billionaire mogul says paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein stole vast sums from his family. Les Wexner, 88, who was behind retailers including Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, was answering questions about his friendship with Epstein in a behind-closed-door session on Wednesday wi...
Mikael Silvestre has claimed that Jose Mourinho has “failed us” over his response to Vinicius Junior’s allegations of racist abuse. The 25-year-old left the field during Real Madrid’s Champions League play-off in Lisbon on Tuesday after reporting Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni to the referee. But Be...
Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo has won his fifth Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games – and the 10th of his career. The 29-year-old cross-country skier won gold again on Wednesday when he, along with Einar Hedegart, won the men’s team sprint with a time of 18 minutes and 28.9 seco...
Vinicius Junior had every right to want to leave the pitch – and for the game to be abandoned. Because while he is a superstar of the game, well used to the biggest Champions League occasions, being the target of racism cannot be excused as coming with football’s tribalism. This was reportin...
Eight skiers have been found dead, and one is still missing, after an avalanche in the northern California mountains, authorities have said. The avalanche hit the Castle Peak area of Truckee in California, about 10 miles (16km) north of Lake Tahoe, at around 11.30am local time on Tuesday. The cascade en...
Ukrainian officials will boycott next month’s Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics over the participation of a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes who have been cleared to compete under their flags. Russia and Belarus will have a combined 10 athletes at next month’s Winter Paralymp...
At least 12 people have been killed after an explosion and fire at a fireworks shop in eastern China, the country’s state media has said. Emergency services put out the blaze at the unnamed shop in the town of Xiangyang, in central Hubei province on Wednesday afternoon, the official Xinhua News Ag...
UEFA has appointed an ethics and disciplinary inspector after allegations a racist slur was directed at Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior during last night’s Champions League match against Benfica. The match, in Lisbon, Portugal, was halted five minutes into the second half, shortly after Vini...
Drones being flown into North Korea by civilians are harming inter-Korean relations, a South Korean minister has said. Chung Dong-young claimed three civilians had sent drones to the secretive state on four occasions since Lee Jae Myung became South Korea‘s president last June. The suspects flew...
Real Madrid’s Champions League game against Benfica was stopped for several minutes after a racist slur was allegedly directed at Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior by an opposition player. The match in Lisbon, Portugal, was halted five minutes into the second half, shortly after Vinicius gave th...
Russia is set to have athletes competing under their own flag at the Paralympic Games for the first time since 2014. In a statement, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said Russia’s National Paralympic Committee had been awarded six slots in the upcoming Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games....
Strikes have been launched by US forces on three alleged drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean, killing 11 people. US Southern Command posted a video on X of Monday’s operation, along with a statement that “intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along know...
Iran is not being subtle. In exercises in one of the world’s most strategic waterways, it left little doubt of its capabilities with missile strikes on dummy targets and simulated tanker seizures. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wasn’t mincing his words either. “A warship is a d...
A Syrian government official told Sky News al Hol camp in northeastern Syria is now largely emptied, acknowledging that escapes continued after the state took control of the site. Al Hol has for years housed tens of thousands of women and children linked to suspected ISIS fighters, as well as Syrians an...
A famous rock structure on the Italian coast known as the ‘Lovers’ Arch’ collapsed on Valentine’s Day after days of bad weather. The natural arch, part of the Sant’Andrea sea stacks in the southern region of Puglia on Italy’s Adriatic coast, is a popular spot for m...
Donald Trump has warned Iran of “consequences” if a new phase of talks on Tehran’s nuclear facilities does not produce an agreement. Washington has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East and is preparing for a possible military campaign if the negotiations in Geneva, Switzer...
Two British skiers who died in an avalanche at a French Alps ski resort last week have been named. Stuart Leslie and Shaun Overy were among three people killed in the snow slide at Val d’Isere, a village in southeastern France. The other victim was a French national. In a tribute posted on Faceboo...
Five people have died and at least five others have been injured in a fire at an apartment building in Spain. The blaze broke out at a five-storey building in Manlleu, near Barcelona, in the northeast of the country on Monday night. The fire started in the storage room of the property, emergency service...
Australia’s prime minister insists his country will not accept women and children from a camp housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State, after Syrian officials attempted to repatriate them. On Monday, 34 women and children from 11 families were supposed to make their way from Al Roj camp t...
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has not received adequate medical treatment in prison after suffering partial vision loss in one eye, his spokesman claims. Speaking to Sky News’ The World with Yalda Hakim, Zulfi Bukhari said Mr Khan’s personal doctor has not been allowed to examin...
A man has been charged with terrorism-related offences over a plot to carry out an attack at a Taylor Swift concert in 2024. The now 21-year-old has been charged by Austrian prosecutors following his arrest shortly before the singer’s first Eras tour date in Vienna was due to take place. Swift can...
A train has derailed in Switzerland, leaving at least five people injured. The BLS AG train, travelling from Goppenstein to Hohtenn, derailed at around 7am on Monday morning. An avalanche may have swept across the tracks shortly before the incident, police said. One of the injured was taken to hospital...
The executive producer of hit TV spy thriller Tehran has been found dead in an Athens hotel, police have said. Dana Eden was in Greece filming the fourth season of the show, Israeli state broadcaster Kan reported. Police said she was found dead on Sunday in a hotel room and an investigation had been lau...
Two people, including a child, were killed and a dozen injured when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a police station in northwestern Pakistan, local authorities have said. The attack took place in Bannu, a district in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, local po...
The 2026 Winter Olympics have proven not to be entirely ice cool – with the curling competition rocked by allegations of “cheating”. The controversy revolves around claims of “double-touching” the curling stone after its release, with the Canadian men’s and women...
The Trump administration has been accused of “purposefully muddying the waters” after releasing a list of hundreds of names mentioned in the Epstein files. A six-page letter sent to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi over the weekend included a list of high-ranking politicians, including...
US forces have boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean as part of efforts to target illicit oil tankers linked to Venezuela. Military personnel boarded the Veronica III in a “right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding”, the Depar...
A man accused of killing 15 people by opening fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach has appeared in court via video link from prison for the first time. Naveed Akram spoke briefly during the short hearing at a Sydney court on Monday, which he joined remotely from high-security...
“They had to pay for the bullet that killed their son,” Nasrin says with a mix of anger and disbelief. She’s telling me the painful details of the day her nephew, Hooman, was killed during recent protests in Iran. The 37-year-old had joined demonstrations against the regime in Lahijan,...
The old, rules-based order that evolved from the ashes of the Second World War no longer exists – at least that is the verdict of Germany’s chancellor, and the evidence is clear to see. The United States signalled at a major security conference in Munich over the weekend that it is ready to...
Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned an “extreme minority” after two female IDF soldiers were rescued from riots in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli city. Video footage from Bnei Brak, just east of Tel Aviv, shows the two soldiers being hurried away by police as thousands of ultra-Orthodox men run afte...
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 11 people in Gaza, local officials say, including in a blast at a tent encampment housing displaced families. The IDF said the action was in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas. A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the militant group has existed since Octo...
A man has died after being pulled from a flooded brook following a police chase. Police had been chasing a stolen caravan in Oakerthorpe, Derbyshire, in the early hours of Saturday. Two men in the vehicle towing the caravan rammed into the police cars before coming to a stop and fleeing on foot. One man...
The Indian and Pakistani cricket captains refused to shake hands at the coin toss before the T20 World Cup showdown on Sunday. Pakistan’s captain Salman Agha had previously said he would leave it up to India’s players to decide if they were to shake hands with his team before and after their...
Police in Germany are appealing for witnesses after thieves broke into the basement of a bank and stole from customer safety deposit boxes. Three individuals, who are thought to be men, were seen wearing blue overalls and walking from a Volksbank branch in Stuhr, northwestern Germany, at around 1.20pm o...
More than 6,000 people were killed in three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group took control of the key city of Al Fashir last October, the United Nations has said. The offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) included widespread atrocities that amounted to war crimes and possible crimes against...
US ski star Lindsey Vonn has reportedly been discharged from hospital in Italy, about a week after a horror crash ended her Olympic comeback. Vonn, 41, was airlifted off the piste after crashing just 13 seconds into her final run in the women’s downhill final in Cortina last Sunday (8 February). T...
A man has been charged after “priceless” Egyptian artefacts were stolen from a museum, Australian police have said. The 52-year-old suspect is accused of smashing a window at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology and then taking the items before fleeing the scene in Caboolture, Queensland....
Pakistan’s captain has said he will leave it up to India’s players to decide if they shake hands with his team before and after their T20 World Cup match. It comes amid political and military tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours who were on the brink of all-out war in May 2025....
Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking ring extended all the way to Africa’s southern coast – held together by the invisible chains of psychological bondage that kept his victims ensnared for years at a time. “Invisible chains is a good way to put it, it was like I was handcuffed invisib...
Four new astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station to replace their colleagues who pulled out early over health concerns. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except for the headline, the content has n...
Winter Olympics athletes are getting a Valentine’s Day gift from organisers – a promise of a renewed supply of free condoms. This apparently followed “higher-than-anticipated demand”. Providing condoms for athletes has been a gift from organisers – and a constant fascinatio...
At least 32 people have been killed after gunmen launched simultaneous attacks on three separate communities in northern Nigeria, police have said. Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso, and Pissa, all located in the Borgu area of Niger state, were targeted in dawn raids on Saturday. Six people died in the assault on T...
It is no coincidence that the UK and its allies chose a security conference in Munich to accuse the Kremlin of killing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with dart frog poison. The extraordinary announcement on Saturday seemed deliberately timed to grab global headlines in much the same way as the...
Around 200,000 people demonstrated against the Iranian regime on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders on Saturday. The protests followed a call by Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for cranked-up international pressure on Tehran. US President Donald Trump said regime change in Iran...
The US military has said it attacked more than 30 Islamic State targets in Syria earlier this month in retaliation for the deaths of two US soldiers and an American civilian interpreter in an IS ambush two months ago. Weapons storage facilities and other IS infrastructure were targeted in 10 strikes bet...
The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents – whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by the toxin of a poisonous frog? “I can imagine that these kinds of poisons are interesting [to...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, the UK and other allies have claimed. The “barbaric” act – using a neurotoxin that is classed as a chemical weapon – could only have been carried out b...
