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Hawaii is currently suffering its worst flooding in more than 20 years, with people in the hardest-hit areas being urged to “LEAVE NOW” by officials. One of the largest dams on the Oahu island is at “risk of imminent failure”, warned the island’s emergency team on social media. “We’ve got a little over...
Parts of the UK enjoyed breathtaking views of the Northern Lights overnight – and more is forecast for Saturday. The natural light show, known as the aurora borealis, is one of nature’s “most spectacular displays”, according to the Met Office. Pictures from Friday night featured...
Russian drone strikes have killed at least two people in Zaporizhzhia and left most of a northern region without power, Ukrainian officials have said. The news comes as a Ukrainian delegation makes its way to the US for a meeting on restarting peace talks. Ivan Fedorov, a regional official in Zaporizhzh...
The murder of Agnes Wanjiru hangs over the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK). The long-time training post is headquartered in the hometown of the 21-year-old single mother who was dumped in a hotel septic tank after being brutally murdered in 2012. The man accused of killing her, Robert Purkis...
Has President Trump just given the biggest indication yet that he’s done with this war in Iran? There’ve been a flurry of overnight developments. The caveat, up front, is that this is a president who changes his mind and has delivered very mixed messages in recent weeks. He also sees real va...
Tributes have been paid to martial arts icon and action movie star Chuck Norris, who has died aged 86. The Hollywood actor was remembered by US President Donald Trump, as well as a host of celebrities and his own family, who called him a “warrior” with a heart “full of love”. Nor...
UK forces have joined a military operation with the French navy in the Mediterranean to seize an oil tanker, alleged to be part of Russia’s shadow fleet. British patrol boat HMS Cutlass monitored the Deyna, a Mozambique-flagged vessel, and supported the French operation on Friday by providing trac...
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Norway’s crown princess says she regrets her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, insisting in a tearful interview she was “manipulated and deceived”. The release of files related to the late sex offender has sent shockwaves around the world, revealing his ties to prominent people, includi...
The Australian prime minister was booed by protesters during a visit to the country’s largest mosque. Anthony Albanese and Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke joined worshippers at Lakemba Mosque in Sydney for Eid prayers on Friday. Video of the event showed several protesters maki...
Denmark sent soldiers and explosives to Greenland in January so that it could blow up runways in the event of a US invasion, the country’s public broadcaster has said. Landing strips in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq could have been targeted to prevent US military aircraft from landing soldiers and equip...
Hungary is blocking the European Union from providing Ukraine with a loan to help its war effort. Viktor Orban, the right-wing prime minister in Budapest, has been a constant critic of the bloc’s commitment to supporting Kyiv and is seen as one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies in Europe. H...
The last 24 hours of eye-wateringly expensive missile duelling over the Persian Gulf has made one point above all. A prolonged war could do calamitous damage to the global economy. In just one day and night, Iran has hit energy targets in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Israel. So much for its military...
Heavy social media use has led to a stark drop in happiness among young people, according to a major academic study. Fifteen-year-old girls who use social media for more than five hours a day are the most likely to see a drop in life-satisfaction, the 2026 edition of the World Happiness Report reveals....
Apple is urging users to update their iPhones after the discovery of new spyware that can take over phones running older versions of the iOS operating system. The powerful software exploit can steal information from potentially hundreds of millions of users, said cybersecurity researchers at Lookout, iV...
China is not currently planning to invade Taiwan next year, according to US spy agencies. Instead of military intervention, Beijing is looking to gain control of the key island in the Pacific without force, an intelligence assessment states. The annual report said that although Chinese Communist Party l...
Senegal says it will appeal the “unfair, unprecedented, and unacceptable decision” to strip it of its Africa Cup of Nations title after a chaotic final against host Morocco. On Tuesday, the appeals board of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ruled that Senegal had forfeited the fina...
The King has paid tribute to the contribution of people of Nigerian heritage as he held a state banquet for the country’s president. President Bola Tinubu and his wife Oluremi Tinubu are in the UK for a two-day state visit. The King said Britain was “blessed” that many people of Nigeri...
With the world’s largest gas field being set ablaze by Israeli strikes, the cost of the war with Iran is set to climb higher still. Iran’s Fars news agency reported that gas tanks and parts of a refinery have been hit at the South Pars gas field. The biggest known gas field in the world, .....
As Iran’s government buried its fallen heroes, its supporters came out in strength. Senior security official Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike two days ago, honoured today along with the crew of the Iranian navy ship sunk by the US at the start of the war. Thousands of mourners gathered for...
More than a million people in Lebanon have been displaced and over 900 killed as Israel intensifies its offensive against the militant group Hezbollah. Israel says those displaced from southern Lebanon will not be allowed back to their homes until the IDF has dismantled Hezbollah’s infrastructure...
The Senegal national football side has just been stripped of the Africa Cup of Nations. The decision, following misconduct in the tournament final, is controversial but far from unique. It is only the latest example in a string of titles or results being removed in sport. Ben Johnson 1988 Canada’s...
Hamid Karzai has claimed that the Pakistani government wants to promote “anarchy and weakness” in Afghanistan to ensure the country is “downtrodden”. Speaking to Sky’s Yalda Hakim, the former Afghan president condemned the bombing of his country by Islamabad. Fighting began...
Senegal has been stripped of the African Cup of Nations after misconduct in the tournament final, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has ruled. The CAF Appeal Board said that Senegal is “declared to have forfeited” the final in January, which will be recorded as a 3-0 win for Morocc...
The human cost of Israel and America’s air campaign on Iran is mounting, nowhere more painfully felt than in the children’s wards of its hospitals. In the intensive care unit of one, four-year-old Anita lies in a coma with severe head injuries a few days after being pulled out of the rubble...
The Princess of Wales wished the officers and guardsmen of the Irish Guards a happy St Patrick’s Day as she presented them with traditional sprigs of shamrock. Kate – who has served as the regiment’s colonel since 2022 – also greeted its mascot, an Irish wolf hound named Turlough...
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Is Israel about to occupy Lebanon? Why is Donald Trump sending more troops to the Middle East? And what is it actually like reporting from an active war zone? Yalda and Richard discuss the latest developments in Iran and what t...
Donald Trump’s most senior counterterrorism official has resigned, saying he “cannot in good conscience” support the Iran war and claiming the country posed “no imminent threat” to the United States. Joe Kent was director of the National Counterterrorism Center, leading the...
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been moved out of intensive care after his medical condition improved, his wife has said. The 70-year-old right-wing politician had been placed in an intensive care unit in the capital Brasilia on Friday for pneumonia. But his wife Michelle said in an Instag...
There are plenty of things that could be highlighted from Donald Trump’s latest public appearances. Here are four: Inconsistencies over discussions with the Iranians The US president has said a few times over the past 12 hours that dialogue with the Iranians is ongoing. “They want to make a...
A Russian natural gas tanker adrift in the Mediterranean Sea represents an “imminent and serious” ecological threat, several European nations have warned. The Arctic Metagaz has been drifting in waters between Malta and Italy, European Union (EU) states, including France and Italy, said in a...
Afghanistan has claimed 400 people have been killed in a Pakistan strike which Kabul said hit a hospital that treats drug addicts. Pakistan had earlier dismissed the claim it had attacked a hospital in the capital, saying its strike in Kabul and other strikes in eastern Afghanistan on Monday had not hit...
It’s our second day inside Iran – a country at war, and its capital Tehran is tense and subdued. Many have fled, those left behind carry on as best they can. There is the regular sound of outgoing anti-aircraft fire and the thuds of incoming missiles. Police stations and checkpoints are reg...
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has warned the US it faces another Vietnam if it puts boots on the ground in the war. Saeed Khatibzadeh, speaking in his office in Tehran, told me that Iran was willing to fight as long as needed and the country was not currently focused on a diplomatic solution. The...
The latest shutdown of Dubai’s airport has disrupted the travel plans of thousands of UK passengers. Dubai International Airport announced on Monday, at 1.36am GMT, it had suspended flights after a drone hit a nearby fuel tank. Many Emirates flights already in the air were diverted, while others waiting...
Donald Trump has warned the US could take action in Cuba after his Iran war, days after a rare riot on the island. The US president said on Sunday that they could reach a deal with Cuba or “do whatever we have to do”. But Mr Trump suggested no action would be taken in Cuba ...
A woman scrambles down the steep embankment cradling a baby in her arms. A man extends a hand to someone else whose step quickens. The sirens start blaring, a warning that incoming missiles are just minutes away. We’ve all just pulled over at the side of a busy motorway on the outskirts of Tel Avi...
A total of 62 people, including eight children, have died after floods hit Kenya last week. The capital Nairobi was the worst hit with 33 deaths, police said on Saturday. It is up since the tally issued last week, which put the death toll at 42. More than 2,000 families have been displaced across the .....
The UK military is considering the deployment of two drone types to the Middle East after the US asked allies for help to secure a key shipping lane in the region, it is understood. Donald Trump has urged the UK and other countries to send warships to the region to help secure the Strait of ...
The road into Tyre is lined with the yellow and green flags of Hezbollah. Billboards are filled with the faces of fighters who lost their lives in the many battles with Israel over the years. We’re in the evacuation zone, the area of south Lebanon that Israel has told everyone to leave. And it...
The Formula 1 races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been cancelled in the wake of the ongoing Iran war, organisers have confirmed. Both races were set to be held in April and alternatives were considered but rejected, the FIA said in a statement. The Formula 2, Formula 3 and F1 Academy rounds have also...
Two airmen killed when a US aircraft crashed in Iraq have been named. Alex Klinner, 33, was deployed less than a week before his refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on 12 March. All six crew members were killed. “It’s kind of heartbreaking to say, he was just a really good dad and r...
At least five people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, with a further 18 wounded, officials have said. Four of the deaths were in the Kyiv region, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia targeted energy infrastructure with around 430 drones and 68 missiles. Mykola Kalashnyk, the he...
North Korea has fired missiles into the sea in response to a United States military exercise. Around 10 ballistic missiles were fired from near Pyongyang’s international airport on Saturday as a show of force after a joint military exercise between US and South Korea. They flew around 220 miles be...
Donald Trump has said his forces carried out a bombing raid on Iran’s “crown jewel” Kharg, a small island in the north of the Persian Gulf, on Friday. The five-mile-long coral island – twice the size of London’s Heathrow Airport – is in the north of the Persian Gulf,...
An explosion has damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam, according to Dutch media. The city’s mayor Femke Halsema said she believed the overnight blast was a targeted attack against the Jewish community. Police and fire services were able to respond to the incident quickly. Damage to the school was...
You don’t have to read between the lines when President Trump posts on Truth Social. The motive for the bombing of Kharg Island was writ large – literally – some of it, caps on. The tone was performative, the wording absolute, almost cinematic, and prepared for multiple audiences. His...
In an unusually unpredictable Oscars race, there is only one moment experts agree is a dead cert – Jessie Buckley, on stage once again, to collect the award for best actress. The big honours started with a Critics Choice award in January. A Golden Globe followed, then a BAFTA, and most recently, a...
Luxury Persian rugs are stacked in piles in the Los Angeles shop which Eric Saddigh has owned for decades. He shakes out a small handwoven rug with a peacock design. “This one is $25,000,” he says. A lot of his customers are Beverly Hills millionaires. The opulence seems far removed from the...
Three days of mourning have been declared in Ethiopia after 80 people died in landslides triggered by heavy flooding. The death toll is likely to rise as many more remain missing after heavy rains struck the southern Gamo Zone area on Tuesday. Another 3,461 people have been displaced by the landslides,...
