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Hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members have been deported by the White House to a supermax prison in El Salvador, even as a US judge blocked the removals. US District Judge James E Boasberg issued an order on Saturday temporarily blocking the Trump administration deportations, but lawyers told him...
US President Donald Trump has said he will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as he pushes to end the war in Ukraine. On Sunday, Mr Trump revealed plans for the upcoming conversation to reporters while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One. He said: “We will see if...
A British woman is missing in Thailand after a diving boat she was on caught fire, officials have said. The vessel was off the coast of the island of Koh Tao when a fire broke out in the engine room after 9am local time on Sunday, according to a Facebook post from the Surat Thani ...
No checkpoint is the same, some want paperwork, others wave you through after a brief look inside – but from Damascus to Latakia, there are a lot of checkpoints, and in one way or another, you are checked every time. It wasn’t like this just a month or two ago, but it is now after ...
👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 On Day 57 of Trump’s presidency, US correspondent Mark Stone is joined by Gerard Baker, the Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large. After spending election night together on the Sky News set in November, the two compare notes on Trump’s presidenc...
The Vatican has released the first image of Pope Francis since he was taken to hospital more than a month ago. The photograph shows the leader of the Catholic church celebrating a mass in his prayer room on Sunday morning. The 88-year-old pontiff is being treated at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome –...
A father has said his only son, who died in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, had “only [just] started to live” and that more than 150 families have been left “devastated” by the tragedy. Dragi Stojanov’s son Tomce, 21, was among the crowd inside Pulse nightclub in the e...
The Pope said he is facing a “period of trial” as he issued his traditional Sunday prayer from hospital. Pope Francis, 88, thanked worshippers for “all your prayers”, expressing his gratitude to those “who assist me with such dedication”. The pontiff is being treated...
At least 51 people are reported to have died in a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia. The blaze broke out while a local pop band was performing at around 2.35am on Sunday in the town of Kocani – allegedly after fireworks were set off inside the venue, interior minister Panche Toshkovski told a...
The crew replacing the astronauts who were stranded for nine months on the International Space Station (ISS) have docked at the orbiting lab. A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts on Sunday on a mission to allow Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who have been on the ISS since June 2024 to return home...
👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 On this episode, our US correspondents James Matthews and Mark Stone read through questions from listeners. They are asked if Vladimir Putin has some kind of hold on Donald Trump, whether the US president can actually win a Nobel peace prize, and if Mark and Jame...
President Donald J Trump wants to redraw the political map of the world to benefit “America First”. Some may laugh at his ignorance of history and his boastful schoolboyish territorial ambitions. Yet, in pursuit of his dream of fortress North America, he has already shown himself willing to...
US President Donald Trump has launched strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he also warned Iran the country’s support for the group must “end immediately”. The Iran-backed Houthis reported a series of explosions in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on...
France have won the Six Nations after beating Scotland 35-16 in Paris. England pushed the championship battle to the final game after earlier destroying Wales with a record 68-14 win in Cardiff. But Les Bleus sealed victory in front of a home crowd in a packed Stade de France to lift their first title s...
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed at least nine Palestinians, including three local journalists, the territory’s health ministry has said. The strike hit a car, with casualties inside and outside the vehicle, and several people were critically injured, according to officials in the Gaza Stri...
It’s more than 40 years since British forces fought a brief but bloody campaign to retake the Falkland Islands after their invasion by Argentina. On the windswept hills around the capital Port Stanley you can still see evidence of battle. The wreckage of destroyed helicopters, discarded military h...
Tens of thousands of people have taken part in a major anti-government rally in the Serbian capital Belgrade. The action, led by students, is being seen as the culmination of months of anti-corruption protests which have posed the largest challenge to President Aleksandar Vucic’s decade-long rule....
Military chiefs from around the world will meet next week to discuss the “operational phase” of protecting Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The prime minister hosted a virtual meeting of the “coalition of the willing” on Saturday, which inv...
At least 34 people are reported to have died in powerful storms across the United States. The number of fatalities increased after eight people died in a highway pile-up caused by a dust storm in Sherman County, Kansas on Friday. At least 50 vehicles were involved. Car crashes also killed four people du...
At least 16 people are reported to have died in powerful storms across the United States. Authorities in Missouri say 10 people died there, with another three deaths reported in Arkansas, and three others in car crashes amid dust storms in Texas on Friday. Around 138 million people are at risk of severe...
This week’s eclipse has been photographed from the moon’s point of view. But rather than being the lunar eclipse that was seen from Earth, on the moon it was a solar eclipse. The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which successfully landed on the planet...
The Russian captain of a ship involved in the North Sea crash has appeared in court. Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, was remanded into custody after appearing at Hull Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. He has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Motin had been captain of...
An under-construction road has collapsed in Bangkok, killing at least five people, officials have said. The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday morning in the southwest of the Thai capital. Another 24 people were injured at the construction site, transport minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit...
The United States has expelled South Africa’s ambassador for being a “race-baiting politician who hates America”. Secretary of state Marco Rubio posted on X late on Friday to say Ebrahim Rasool is “no longer welcome in our great country” because he “hates America and...
The head of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has been killed in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to Iraqi officials and US military commanders. Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social the “fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed” after being “relentlessly hunted down...
You can hear them before you see them. And smell them. At this time of year – the South Atlantic summer – the penguins of the Falkland Islands mob together in rookeries on these isolated beaches to raise their fluffy chicks. And we’re surrounded by them. The beach at Volunteer Point on...
👉 Follow Trump 100 on your podcast app 👈 Donald Trump signals a possible end to the Ukraine war after “productive” talks with Vladimir Putin. But with no direct Trump-Putin call yet, what’s really going on behind the scenes? Our US correspondents James Matthews, Martha Kelner, and Mark...
The American influencer who snatched a baby wombat from its distressed mother has said “thousands threatened” her life, and that she is “truly sorry” in an Instagram post. Sam Jones, who describes herself as an “outdoor enthusiast and hunter”, wrote a lengthy statemen...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said there is a “good chance” to end the war with Russia. The embattled Ukrainian president was speaking after he accepted a proposal for a 30-day interim ceasefire and Vladimir Putin stuck to his red lines on needing certain conditions to be met....
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 With diplomatic talks between Russia and America stalled, the killing on the battlefields continues. Richard reports from the frontline of Mykolaiv, witnessing continued Russian bombardment of the region, while Yalda reveals wh...
Mark Carney has been formally sworn in as the new prime minister of Canada, following the resignation of predecessor Justin Trudeau. Mr Carney, a former governor of both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, will try to steer his country through a trade war brought by Donald Trump. Mr Trump has also m...
A long-awaited rocket with a replacement crew for two stranded NASA astronauts has finally launched to the International Space Station (ISS). US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS for nine months, having had their journey home repeatedly pushed back. The Crew-10 missio...
Police in Japan have arrested a man after a YouTuber was stabbed to death while livestreaming in downtown Tokyo. Officers said they arrested Kenji Takano, 42, on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in the Shinjuku district following the attack on Tuesday. The victim, Airi Sato, was rushed to hosp...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s have both said any ceasefire between their two countries must lead to a lasting peace. Ukraine has not long marked three years of war, in which hundreds of thousands have died or been injured on both sides, accord...
Steve Witkoff didn’t stay long in the Russian capital. According to footage posted of his motorcade leaving and returning to Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, he was here for little more than 12 hours. And for most of that, it seems, he was left waiting. Trump’s fixer leaves Moscow – pea...
Hamas says it has offered to release Edan Alexander, an Israeli soldier who holds American citizenship, and the bodies of four other dual nationals. However, two officials from the group told the news agency Reuters the release was conditional on beginning the talks on the second phase of a ceasefire an...
A British man in his 70s has died after being hit by a vehicle in Kenyan President William Ruto’s motorcade. The victim was named by Kenyan police as 79-year-old Edgar Charles Frederick who died on Ngong Road in Nairobi on Thursday. The driver of the government vehicle was arrested and later relea...
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has appeared at the International Criminal Court, accused of crimes against humanity. The 79-year-old appeared in the Netherlands via video link on Friday. His lawyer said he was suffering from “debilitating medical issues” but the ju...
Tesla, run by Donald Trump cheerleader Elon Musk, has warned US officials it risks being exposed to “disproportionate” retaliatory tariffs under the president’s escalating trade war. The electric carmaker raised the issue in a letter to the US Trade Representative’s (USTR’s...
An American influencer who caused outrage by snatching a baby wombat from its mother has left Australia – amid concerns the “disorientated” marsupial may not have refound its parent. Sam Jones, who describes herself as an “outdoor enthusiast and hunter”, left the country on...
One thousand feet above the world’s largest iceberg, it’s hard to believe what you’re seeing. It stretches all the way to the horizon – a field of white as far as the eye can see. Its edge looks thin in comparison, until you make out a bird flying alongside and realise it is, in...
Four weeks after the Pope went into hospital there’s a growing sense that the Papacy may have entered a new phase. Marco Impagliazzo, president of the Community of Sant’Egidio – the world’s biggest catholic charity, told Sky News the Catholic Church may have to “rethink...
Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year compared to 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF have warned in what is being called a “wake-up call”. There were 127,350 reported infections in the region in 2024, which is the highest number since 1997. It is around...
Donald Trump has said he thinks the US will annex Greenland, days after the country’s incoming prime minister said: “We don’t want to be Americans.” During an Oval Office meeting with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, the US president was asked about his hopes to annex Greenland...
Queen Camilla wrote a letter of support to French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot, a royal aide has revealed. The 72-year-old was drugged and raped by her ex-husband, who also invited dozens of strangers to abuse her for almost a decade. The contents of the private letter have not been disclosed. Image: Gi...
Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited. Only a few visiting scientists and government fisheries inspectors occupy the island all year round. But from a wildlife perspective, it’s anything but. Its shores are home to the largest n...
Vladimir Putin has said Russia agrees to an end to fighting in Ukraine, but “lots of questions” remain over proposals for a 30-day ceasefire. The Russian president thanked Donald Trump for “paying so much attention to regulating the conflict in Ukraine” and said he needs to speak...
Israel has been accused of carrying out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians during the Gaza conflict in a United Nations report. It alleges a broad range of violations perpetrated against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys since 7 October 2023 – which Israel has denied and reject...
Australia’s prime minister has become the latest to criticise an American influencer whose video of her grabbing a baby wombat and carrying it away from its distressed mother has sparked outrage. Sam Jones, who describes herself as an “outdoor enthusiast and hunter”, posted a now-delet...
