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People living in Naples were shaken awake early on Thursday morning after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the southern Italian city – its strongest in 40 years. Some residents left their homes for the streets and even stayed in their vehicles overnight after the quake hit at around 1.25am, causi...
Cars have been set alight and rocks thrown at parliament in violent clashes between retired people, backed by football fans, and police in Argentina. Pensioners angry at the austerity policies of Argentina President Javier Milei’s government were joined by supporters of several clubs, and fought w...
Donald Trump’s government is reassessing whether greenhouse gases damage people’s health, amid a dizzying blitz of more than 30 environmental protections that limit air and water pollution. “We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate change religion and ushering in America...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a British woman at a hotel in Delhi, Indian police have said. Officers have also arrested a second man who is accused of trying to silence the woman when she resisted the alleged rape and molesting her. The woman, from London, is said to have met ...
Former Australian Test cricketer Stuart MacGill has been found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine in Sydney. He had pleaded not guilty to a single charge of participating in the supply of a prohibited drug. Jurors heard the 54-year-old former spin bowler – who played 44 Tests for Austr...
Scientists are genetically modifying mosquitoes in the hope of stopping the spread of malaria. The technique, which uses genes taken from the honeybee and the African clawed frog, blocks normal growth of the malaria parasite inside the mosquito. It would mean a mosquito bite in regions of the world wher...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ukraine’s partners to make sure Russia doesn’t “deceive” them over a ceasefire. After breakthrough talks between Ukrainian and US officials in Saudi Arabia, Kyiv said it was ready to accept a proposed 30-day ceasefire with Russia. But his nightly...
Two Olympic gold medallist ski jumpers have been suspended after their ski suits were deliberately manipulated to make them more aerodynamic. Three staff members embroiled in the cheating scandal – including the head coach – have also been stood down from their jobs. Athletes Marius Lindvik,...
Well, that went well. An Oval Office meeting that in any other St Patrick’s week would have been regarded as almost unimaginably confrontational – but this time round the Irish delegation will be floating on air. Micheal Martin was in the lion’s den today, the first leader to step into the O...
The King, in a ceremonial sense, has reaffirmed his respect for and commitment to Canada, against the tense backdrop of the trade war with America. This afternoon, King Charles, who is also Canada’s monarch as a Commonwealth realm, received the Canadian Usher of the Black Rod, Greg Peters, and the...
Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on the EU during a meeting with Irish premier Micheal Martin in the Oval Office. The US president said he did not want “to do anything to hurt Ireland” but added that the trade relationship between the countries should be focused on “fairness...
Seven healthcare workers who treated Diego Maradona are accused of “condemning him to oblivion” by negligence, prosecutors have said. The 1986 World Cup winner, one of the sport’s greatest-ever players, died in a house outside Buenos Aires in November 2020 following a cardiac arrest. H...
“When history takes a darker turn, it always starts with the omission of words.” Award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak sat down with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on The World podcast to talk about her latest novel There Are Rivers In The Sky, the parallels she sees between Turkey and Ame...
Oleksiy Kliuiev has had to get used to working under fire. He leads a group of volunteers helping civilians caught in the fighting on Ukraine’s frontline. Last September, he and his team were nearly hit in a drone strike as they rushed to help residents under bombardment in the Sumy region, close to Ukr...
The US has ramped up pressure on Russia to accept a 30-day ceasefire proposal to end “all hostilities” with Ukraine. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to the truce “so people will stop dying, so bullets will stop flying”. Spea...
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has arrived in the Netherlands to face charges linked to the deadly crackdown on drugs he oversaw while in office. A plane carrying the former leader of the southeast Asian country landed at Rotterdam airport shortly before 4pm UK time on Wednesd...
As the world waits for Russia’s next move over the US-proposed ceasefire deal with Ukraine, only one man has been trusted to head up Donald Trump’s envoy to Moscow – and he’s far from the typical diplomat. Initially named as Mr Trump’s Middle East envoy shortly after the US...
Hostages have been killed after separatist militants hijacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan, authorities have said. The Pakistan military (ISPR) said 21 hostages were killed, as well as four security force soldiers, on the train that was carrying more than 400 people. Earlier on We...
Security forces have exchanged gunfire with separatist militants who have hijacked a train in Pakistan, as they try to free around 250 hostages on board. The militants wearing vests loaded with explosives barricaded themselves inside the train with the hostages, Pakistani officials said – with a g...
Donald Trump’s senior trade adviser has told a Sky News reporter to “stop that crap” while facing questions over the US president’s tariffs policy. Peter Navarro insisted Mr Trump was “negotiating strategically” after Sky’s US correspondent Mark Stone said the p...
The captain of the Solong – the container ship involved in the crash in the North Sea – is a Russian national, the vessel’s owner has said. The rest of the crew were Russian and Filipino nationals, according to shipping company Ernst Russ. It comes after police said a man had been arre...
Greenland’s centre right opposition party has won the most votes in elections that will be seen as a rejection of Donald Trump’s interference in the island’s politics. The Demokraatit party won 30% of the vote. It favours a slow move towards independence from Denmark. On the eve of the...
In Miche cafe and bar in British Columbia’s capital, Victoria, owner Allan Sinclair is turning around specific alcohol bottles on the top shelf to hide the labels from public view. He picks up a bottle of Jack Daniels. “This is from Tennessee and they supported Trump so we can’t have t...
As Ukraine says it has accepted a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, US secretary of state Marco Rubio says “the ball is now in Russia’s court”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he accepted the proposal as his country, which has been fending off Russia’s full-scale inva...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to agree to a ceasefire with Russia after successful talks with the US today. The Ukrainian president said on Telegram that “we are ready to take this step” and said the US “must convince Russia to do this”. Ukraine war latest: Trump warns...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to accept a ceasefire deal – as the US says it has immediately resumed intelligence sharing and military aid with Ukraine. In a post on Telegram after US and Ukrainian officials met in Saudi Arabia, Mr Zelenskyy said “the American side understands our arguments...
A five-year-old boy was “incinerated” when a pressurised oxygen chamber exploded at a medical facility in the US state of Michigan. Four people have been charged over the child’s death at the Oxford Centre in Detroit, Michigan’s attorney general has said. Thomas Cooper, from Mich...
A phenomenon that made the recent California wildfires so damaging is spreading further afield. Climate “whiplash” sees dangerous swings between very wet weather and very dry weather. Drought or extreme rain are hard enough to contend with on their own. The problem with whiplash is the sever...
Donald Trump briefly threatened to escalate his trade war with Canada by doubling his planned tariffs on its steel and aluminium from 25% to 50%. The US president stepped back from his order after the provincial government of Ontario rowed back on a plan to charge 25% more for electricity it supplies to...
Donald Trump has said he will double his planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium from 25% to 50%. The US president said the increase set to take place on Wednesday is a response to price rises the provincial government of Ontario put on electricity sold to the US. In a post on his social ...
The first thing I noticed after arriving in Vidnoye, a suburb 15 miles south of the Kremlin and Moscow’s centre, was the debris on the ground – smashed glass, clumps of what looked like loft insulation and piles of crumpled metal railings. The next thing was all the cracked and shattered windscree...
Israel has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip and five more in the West Bank in the past 24 hours, Palestinian officials have said. It comes as a fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas – which came into effect on 19 January – largely holds. Four civilians, including two brothe...
In Thailand, Richard Burrows found an escape – a place to hide for nearly 30 years. After abusing children, he fled the UK to avoid prosecution. But the severity of his crimes didn’t push him to live a low-profile life – far from it. In the sandy shores of Phuket, he became very well k...
British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly has pleaded not guilty to multiple sexual assault charges in Australia. The internet personality, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, appeared before Perth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. According to court documents, he pleaded not guilty to...
Donald Trump’s trade war has expanded to cover the world, with 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to the US in effect from today, affecting UK products worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The duties were announced in mid-February as stock market investors cheered President Trump...
At least 12 people died and 45 were injured when a bus flipped over on a highway in South Africa, throwing passengers from the vehicle. Emergency services were at the scene in Johannesburg on Tuesday trying to lift the bus back on to its wheels to see if any more people were trapped underneath it. ...
The Dalai Lama has said his successor as spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will be born outside China, risking the anger of Beijing. In a new book published on Tuesday, the 89-year-old reversed his previous position that he may be the last in the line of spiritual leaders. It’s the first time t...
Seven members of the medical team that treated Diego Maradona before his death will today go on trial for homicide in Buenos Aires. The football legend died after suffering a heart attack at his home in the Argentinian capital, where he had been recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot on his brai...
One person has been killed in the Moscow region after Ukraine launched what appears to be its largest drone attack against Russia in three years. Three people were also injured in the strike on the day that peace talks were set to begin in Saudi Arabia between Kyiv and Washington. Most of the 337 drones...
The controversial former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has been arrested over claims of crimes against humanity. The government said he was detained on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant when he landed in Manila on Tuesday. The case centres on thousands of killings that took...
Greenland is remote, much of it untouched and beautiful. It has until recently managed to stay out of the limelight. But it is now being interfered with by the world’s most powerful man, right on the eve of an important national election. That meddling is making this a highly charged vote and und...
Donald Trump says a Palestinian student activist detained by federal immigration agents is “anti-American”. Mahmoud Khalil, a postgraduate student at Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs, has been a prominent figure in the university’s pro-Palestinian...
Syria’s interim government has signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s oil-rich northeast. The agreement – which includes a ceasefire and the merging of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) there into the Syrian army – will bring most of the nation unde...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of his team having talks with America’s top diplomat. Mr Zelenskyy will not be at the meeting with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, but Mr Zelenskyy’s team will try to improve relations following his disastrous...
Here is a question that Canadians are now asking themselves. When Donald Trump gets worked up about his neighbours to the north, as he seems to do most days as US president, will he refer to the new leader of Canada’s Liberal Party – and the country’s incoming prime minister – as...
More than 40,000 people have been hit by a surprise strike that shut Hamburg Airport – and more than 500,000 could be disrupted today as the walkout spreads across Germany. The strike reportedly began with just half an hour notice yesterday morning, with passengers told to stay away and terminals...
In just 50 days, Donald Trump has upended our world. He has ripped up rules, attacked allies and sided with enemies. A country we thought for decades had our backs is no longer a reliable partner. We travelled thousands of miles to ask what that means for our lives and millions of others – from .....
US President Donald Trump has suggested Ukraine “may not survive” the war against Russia even if American support continued. In an interview with Fox News channel’s ‘Sunday Morning Futures’, Mr Trump was asked about his controversial decision to pause support for Kyiv as it...
Israel is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza following Hamas’ refusal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire deal. While the full extent of the effects of the power cut is not yet known, Gaza’s desalination plants use it to produce drinking water for the besieged enclave’s...
Syria’s new government has formed a committee to investigate reported mass revenge killings of a minority group – after the United Nations human rights chief called for “swift actions”. Violent clashes, which a war monitoring group said had already killed 1,311 people, have conti...
