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A photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thi, taken during the Vietnam War, became infamous for its horrific depiction of the conflict. Titled The Terror Of War, the photo by Huỳnh Công Út – known professionally as Nick Ut – won a Pulitzer Prize. In 2022, Niall Paterson was joined on the...
Pakistan has said it has “credible intelligence” India intends to launch military action, as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. The neighbouring countries introduced extensive measures against each other after 26 people were killed in an attack near the resort town of...
So, after 100 days of Donald Trump the big question for me remains – does the US president have a coherent foreign policy or is he just winging it? Let’s take his attitude to the war in Ukraine – here “inconsistent” is perhaps the best description. Back in February, he and...
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Yalda and Richard discuss whether there is any rationale behind President Trump’s foreign policy or if he is just winging it. They analyse the most recent volte-face on his attitude towards Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimi...
The biggest city in the Sahel has been ransacked and left in ruins. War erupted in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in April 2023 and sent millions searching for safety. The city was quickly captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a power struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)...
The biggest city in the Sahel has been ransacked and left in ruins. War erupted in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in April 2023 and sent millions searching for safety. The city was quickly captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a power struggle with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)...
The UK has joined US forces in attacking a Houthi target in Yemen for the first time since Donald Trump was re-elected. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the strikes took place on Tuesday as part of the government’s response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf...
Three people have been killed after a shooting in Sweden. A murder investigation has been launched following the incident in the city of Uppsala. Witnesses told local media they heard five shots and saw people in the area running to take cover. Inside Sweden’s deadly gang war Image: A police vehic...
An Israeli minister has been called a “war criminal” in an extraordinary row with protesters inside the US Capitol. Itamar Ben-Gvir travelled to Washington on Tuesday, where he met with a series of members of Congress as part of a wider trip to the country. But between meetings, he was confr...
Two parents and their adult son are said to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after using a generator during the blackout that hit Spain and Portugal this week, according to local reports. This would bring the number of deaths linked to the incident, which struck the Iberian Peninsula around midd...
A paramedic in Gaza who was detained for more than five weeks following an Israeli attack that killed 15 aid workers has been released, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said. Asaad al Nsasrah was one of 17 aid workers who were attacked in Tel al Sultan in southern Gaza by Israeli forces on 23...
A child has damaged a huge painting thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds in the Netherlands. The abstract artwork, named “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8”, by Mark Rothko was on public display in a storage facility next to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam when it sustai...
The Trump administration has disputed claims that three children, who are US citizens, were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers. One of the youngsters is a four-year-old boy with Stage 4 cancer, who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child’s family said. Donald Trump’s bo...
The trial has begun for an Australian woman accused of murdering her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt by serving them a beef wellington laced with poisonous mushrooms. Erin Patterson is charged with the murders of her former parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson...
A Chinese student who was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji last week had to be saved a second time just four days later, local authorities have said. The 27-year-old climber made an emergency call on 22 April after getting altitude sickness on the mountain’s Fujinomiya trail, about 3,000 me...
Mark Carney styled himself as the man to take on Trump – Canadians took him at his word. The polls had long shown that he was the finance man trusted to take the fight to the nemesis next door. Canadians confirmed it. He had been belligerent in his dealings with President Trump and he carried ...
On the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, factory workers at Dony Garment have been working overtime for weeks. Ever since Donald Trump announced a whopping 46% trade tariff on Vietnam, they’ve been preparing for the worst. They’re rushing through orders to clients in three separate states in Am...
Mark Carney is set to be elected as prime minister of Canada after his ruling Liberal Party were projected to win the election. He held off the challenge of his closest rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Mr Carney has been prime minister since March when he won a landslide victory in his...
Police had contact with a man suspected of being behind a vehicle attack in Vancouver that killed 11 people on the day before the ramming. A man drove an SUV through a crowd during a Filipino cultural festival in the Canadian city on Saturday. Of the 11 killed, nine were female and two were male, ...
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the election in Canada – capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fuelled by Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war. After polls closed, the Liberals were projected to win more of parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservative Party. Ho...
The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service has said he will resign in June – defusing an escalating row with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister last month said he planned to fire Ronen Bar, citing an “ongoing distrust” in the Shin Bet chief. However, the country...
The number of people killed in an explosion at Iran’s biggest container port has risen to 65, with over 1,200 injured, according to state media. The blast, at the Shahid Rajaei container hub near the southern city of Bandar Abbas, happened on Saturday as Iran held a third round of talks with the U...
We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail. Now, millions of people across Spain, Portugal and parts of France are likely thinking of little else. While local power cuts are fairly common, what’s happened across the Iberian peninsula is something far mor...
An “exceptional and extraordinary” power outage has brought large parts of Portugal and Spain to a standstill. Public transport services, internet connectivity and ATM machines across the Iberian Peninsula, an area home to 50 million people, have been affected by the outage, which occurred...
Work to prepare the Sistine Chapel for the gathering of the cardinals to elect a new pope has begun. The building in Vatican City is the second most visited museum in the world and will become the focus of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church as it chooses a successor to Pope Francis. The Vatican has...
A trial has started in France over the 2016 heist in which armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian and stole millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery during Paris Fashion Week. The reality star turned business mogul was targeted during the early hours of 3 October 2016 while staying at the Hotel de Po...
A Palestinian diplomat has told the United Nations’ top court that Israel is “starving, killing and displacing” civilians and targeting aid workers in Gaza. Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians and aid staff and did not attend the hearing at the International Court of Justice...
The conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor will begin on 7 May, the Vatican has announced. Some 135 cardinal electors – those under the age of 80 – will take part and vote for the new pontiff. The rituals of the event, held in the Sistine Chapel, are elaborate and date back centuri...
The strategic peninsula of Crimea is crucial in US-led efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, has long been coveted by Moscow, who want Ukraine to officially surrender the territory as part of a peace deal. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reje...
Donald Trump has said the death of Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, is “a horrible thing”. Her family said Ms Giuffre “lost her life to suicide” at her farm in Western Australia on Friday, aged 41. And responding to a reporter’s question at a N...
At least 68 people have been killed after a US airstrike on a prison holding African migrants in Yemen, Houthi rebels claim. The group’s civil defence organisation added 47 people were wounded in the strike at the site in the Saada governorate in northwest Yemen – a rebel stronghold. Yemen...
When Canada goes to the polls, it might be the second election Donald Trump wins in six months. The US president has transformed Canada’s political landscape, and the “Trump effect” looks like it will be the difference between winners and losers. Tariffs, and his threat to annexe the c...
A man has been charged with multiple counts of murder after eleven people, including a five-year-old child, were killed in a vehicle attack in Vancouver. The British Columbia Prosecution Service said that Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, has been charged with eight counts of second degree murder. It added that more...
Donald Trump has said he is “very disappointed” with Russia as he continues to push for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. On Saturday, the US president met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican for their first face-to-face meeting since their explosive White House summit. The Ukraini...
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Jiggly Caliente has died aged 44, her family have announced. Caliente, real name Bianca Castro-Arabejo, died “surrounded by her loving family and close friends” at 4.42am on Sunday, her family wrote in an Instagram post. On Thursday, they revealed she had part o...
Anna and Irene have already been queuing for an hour or so, and they know they have a long wait still to come. “Two hours, three hours, ten hours – what does it matter?” says Irena. “This is about eternity.” They have come to Rome from Slovenia, Catholics who felt “Pa...
A man suspected of stabbing to death a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in France is still at large a day after the attack, authorities have said. The incident, which took place on Friday in the former mining town of La Grand-Combe, in the south of France, was described as “Islamophobic” by Pri...
At least 28 people have been killed and several hundred more injured after an explosion and fire at Iran’s largest port, according to state media. The blast, at the Shahid Rajaei container hub near the southern city of Bandar Abbas, happened on Saturday as Iran held a third round of talks with the...
People have been allowed to view Pope Francis’s tomb after he was laid to rest there on Saturday. The 88-year-old pontiff was buried in a private ceremony in Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major), following an outdoor funeral mass at the Vatican where an estimated crowd of 250,000 gath...
A number of people have been killed and multiple others injured after a driver drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, police have said. The driver has been taken into custody after the incident shortly after 8pm local time on Saturday, police added. People were in the area near 41st Avenu...
An Israeli government spokesperson said suggestions that the IDF targets aid workers are “blood libel,” after a Labour MP called for investigations into attacks leading to their deaths. Hamish Falconer, minister for the Middle East and North Africa, said on social media that “aid worke...
David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, tried to downplay interest in the president’s first “100 days”. He said it is just a “hallmark holiday”, meaning that the date is of little interest to those who make a point of remembering milestones such as greeting ca...
Tickets for the 2026 World Cup are being sold on a third-party ticket exchange – with up to £46,000 for the final – despite FIFA not putting any on the market yet, Sky News has uncovered. World football’s governing body has now issued a warning to fans to be “wary” of unoff...
Hundreds of thousands of Catholics descended on Vatican City for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday. World leaders, including President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were among those who flew in to pay their respects. Follow live: Pope Francis funeral service latest updates...
Four people have died and more than 500 been injured after a chemical explosion at Iran’s largest port, according to state media. The blast saw a huge cloud of black and orange smoke billow above Rajaei port, near the city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday. Its impact shattered windows up to 16 miles aw...
On an extraordinary day, remarkable pictures on the margins that capture what may be a turning point for the world. In a corner of St Peter’s Basilica before the funeral of Pope Francis, the leaders of America and Ukraine sit facing each other in two solitary chairs. They look like confessor and s...
Donald Trump has met Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the Pope’s funeral, according to Vatican sources. The US and Ukrainian presidents have also agreed to hold further talks after the service. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the pag...
Tens of thousands of people have packed St Peter’s Square as the funeral of Pope Francis begins. Royals, world leaders and cardinals joined scores of worshippers at the Vatican, as mourning of the 266th pontiff transcended wealth and social class. In keeping with Francis’s life as a breaker...
Kim Jong Un has unveiled a new naval destroyer that can apparently launch nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. The North Korean leader says the warship is a significant advancement towards his goal of expanding the operational range and pre-emptive strike capabilities of his military. Mr Kim says his cou...
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has died aged 41. In a statement to Sky’s US partner network NBC News on Friday, her family said she died by suicide in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several years. “It is with utterly broken hearts that we...
