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China’s premier has warned “changes unseen in a century are unfolding across the world” as a trade war with the US intensifies. Li Qiang was speaking in parliament – a day after Washington slapped another 10% tariff on Chinese goods. Beijing has responded with 10% to 15% tariffs...
Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is a sprawling mass of humanity. It’s a sea of makeshift bamboo shelters, home to more than one million Rohingya refugees – a mainly Muslim minority from Rakhine state in Myanmar. Some 700,000 fled their homeland back in 2017 – after the Myanmar militar...
Gran Canaria’s airport has reopened after flash flooding meant planes were unable to take off and land. Torrential downpours across the island caused widespread disruption – with dramatic footage showing cars being washed off shore. The town of Telde was particularly hit by the stormy condit...
Tesla charging stations have been set on fire in the US state of Massachusetts as a backlash against Elon Musk grows. Demonstrators have been protesting against his close ties to Donald Trump and embrace of far-right politicians around the world. Officers and firefighters rushed to The Point Shopping Ce...
Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy has opened up about the singer’s death, saying she is “still working on accepting the fact that he’s not here anymore”. The singer, 31, died in October last year after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. Kate Cassidy was with Payn...
Australians are preparing for a “very rare” cyclone to sweep across the east coast near Brisbane, the country’s third most populated city. Residents are being told to brace themselves for the “significant risks” Cyclone Alfred poses, which will be the first to hit Southeast...
Emma Raducanu has said she “couldn’t see the ball through tears” after she spotted a stalker in the crowd at the Dubai Open last month. The 22-year-old said she could “barely breathe” after receiving repeated unwanted attention from a man displaying “fixated behaviour...
Donald Trump has admitted his tariffs on major trading partners will cause “a little disturbance” – as China said it was “ready” for “any type of war” with the US. The US president made his comments in an address to Congress, hours after the levies on imports ca...
A British man has been jailed for 19 years after a Russian court found him guilty of fighting for Ukraine in the country’s Kursk region. James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, had been charged with terrorist and mercenary offences and was convicted following a closed trial. The court said he should serve...
Twenty-nine sick children from Gaza have arrived in Jordan for emergency specialist medical care. They are the first of 2,000 children that the Jordanian government has agreed to take from the war-torn Gaza Strip and include amputees, babies with heart defects and children suffering from shrapnel wounds...
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 This week Richard and Yalda sit down with Matt Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser to Donald Trump and one of the leading US experts on foreign affairs. With an insider’s knowledge of the president’s...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been called a “crook” and a “punk” by a former top aide to Donald Trump. Steve Bannon also told Sky’s Ali Fortescue he thinks the US president should pull out of a planned minerals deal with Ukraine. In a wide-ranging interview on the Politics Hub, t...
Ukraine’s president is offering an olive branch to Donald Trump with a dramatic public message aimed at mending their relationship and ending Russia’s war. Volodymyr Zelenskyy chose social media – the US leader’s favourite mode of communication – to make his point. He did n...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is “ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible” in the search for a “lasting” peace with Russia. The Ukrainian president made the statement on social media hours after Donald Trump’s White House announced it was pausing U...
The Trump administration’s decision to suspend all US military aid to Ukraine has put billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and equipment in limbo. Sky News examines the scale of US military aid so far and what’s now at risk. The US has sent $21bn of military aid to Ukraine since the w...
At least three Serbian MPs have been injured after smoke bombs and flares were thrown in the country’s parliament. Chaos erupted as politicians were scheduled to vote on a law that would increase funding for university education. But opposition parties insisted this was illegal and the parliament...
The interim leader of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, has told Sky News that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will stand trial for crimes against humanity. Ms Hasina is accused of overseeing a system of enforced disappearances during her time in government, as well as the mass killing of protesters in Ju...
The latest round of the US-China trade war has kicked off. The US has imposed a tariff of 10% on all goods from China. This is on top of the 10% that was slapped on last month. So that’s a 20% duty in total since Donald Trump became president. Last year he promised tariffs of ...
Tattoos may be linked to an increased risk of cancer, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of South Denmark and the University of Helsinki have found tattoo ink may increase the risk of skin and lymphoma cancers. The research team says this is because tattoo ink accumulates in the lym...
After nearly 40 years at sea, the world’s largest iceberg has run aground on the remote British overseas territory of South Georgia, one of the biologically rich habitats on Earth home to millions of penguins, seals and endangered albatross. The vast “megaberg” named A23a covers 1,200...
Sir Keir Starmer has declared that a “coalition of the willing” will come together and draw up a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. The prime minister said this will be presented to US President Donald Trump for his support, after he clashed publicly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel...
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened the Trump administration with retaliatory action for stepping up “provocations” with the deployment of a US aircraft carrier to South Korea. The warning from Kim Yo Jong, a powerful official in her brother’s regime, implies N...
Is this the art of the deal or the art of blackmail? US President Donald Trump’s evening announcement to suspend US military aid to Ukraine came after a weekend through which the question had been: “He wouldn’t actually do that, would he?” But given his actions over the past 43 d...
A truck has collided with a bus in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people, according to police – just two days after a deadly crash claimed at least 37 lives. Officers said the bus rolled some 500m (1,640ft) down a ravine after the collision on Monday, which took place on the highway between...
Donald Trump has confirmed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, taking effect at 5am UK time on Tuesday. The US president confirmed the tariffs in a speech at the White House – and his announcement sent US stocks down sharply. The tariffs will be felt heavily by US companies which have fac...
Donald Trump has hit out at the Ukrainian president once again, just four days after an explosive on-camera spat between the pair. The US president posted on Truth Social saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy made “the worst statement that could have been made” when he said the end of the war with Russ...
A mother has gone on trial accused of kidnapping and selling her young daughter in South Africa. Kelly Smith, whose full name is Racquel Chantel Smith, denies organising the abduction of her daughter Joshlin in February 2024 in return for a payment. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges alongside tw...
The Pope has had two episodes of “acute respiratory failure”, the Vatican has said. The 88-year-old has been in hospital since 14 February with a severe respiratory infection that triggered other complications. The Vatican said the respiratory failures were caused by “significant accum...
Weapons companies’ share prices surged across Europe and the UK’s benchmark stock index reached a record high amid talks of increased defence spending. The FTSE 100 index of the most valuable companies on the London Stock Exchange hit a level never seen before as arms maker BAE Systems saw i...
Two suspects arrested amid a murder probe into the death of a Scottish businessman in Kenya can be held for 21 days for further police investigations, a court has ruled. Alex Mutua Kithuka and Albunus Mutinda Nzioki appeared in court in Milimani on Monday in connection with the death of Campbell Scott....
Russia is finding it “significantly” harder to conduct combat operations against Ukraine because of a rise in Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian weapons supplies, ammunition depots and fuel refineries, a senior commander has said. Brigadier General Yuriy Shchygol signalled these a...
UK-based investigators are looking at how they can assist with probes into alleged grand corruption in Bangladesh, Sky News understands. The development comes after the interim leader of Bangladesh said that Labour MP Tulip Siddiq had “wealth left behind” in the country “and should be...
A car has driven into a group of pedestrians in the western German city of Mannheim, according to local media reports – with a large police operation under way. A witness told Reuters several people were seen lying on the ground after a car drove into a crowd. A police statement said: “Curre...
Two people have died and 11 others have been injured after a car was deliberately rammed into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim, before the driver shot himself. Among those hurt, five people are in a serious condition after a black vehicle hit pedestrians on Monday, according to German poli...
The world’s most prolific blood donor, whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies, has died in Australia. James Harrison “generously” donated his plasma almost 1,200 times from 1954 until 2018 and was known as the “man with the golden arm”. Described as a...
An adventurer who was just days from completing a solo row from the US to Australia has been rescued by a warship after getting caught in a tropical cyclone. Aurimas Mockus was in the final stages of his 7,500-mile voyage across the Pacific Ocean, which he started in an enclosed boat in October. After h...
A “coalition of the willing” could provide boots on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. The phrase was a central theme of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech after European leaders gathered in London for crucial talks about Ukraine’s future. Led by the UK and France, the in...
Casualties have been reported in a suspected shooting attack in Haifa, according to Israeli police. An Israel police spokesman said: “Police forces are en route to the scene following reports of a suspected shooting attack in Haifa. “There are initial indications of multiple casualties, thou...
During what was an extraordinary round-table with a handful of journalists at Stansted Airport, there was no sign of a bruised Ukrainian president who had just been publicly battered by Donald Trump. Instead, Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared confident and hopeful as he entered the room. Seated beside him, I...
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Fresh from his confrontation with President Trump in the Oval Office, Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Yalda. He tells her about continued Russian aggression, that there is presently no chance of a ceasefire, and his determination...
There was both symbolism and substance on Sunday as European leaders and NATO allies gathered in London to try to pick up the pieces after a shattering encounter in the Oval Office between the president of a superpower and a president at war. The symbolism was of European leaders and NATO allies gatheri...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is “exchangeable” for Ukrainian membership of NATO, indicating he would be prepared to step down as president if his country was allowed to join the military alliance. He also suggested he was ready to sign a minerals deal with the US that was put on hold afte...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rebuffed US officials calling for him to resign as the president of Ukraine. His comments come after Republicans including senator Lindsay Graham and speaker Mike Johnson suggested he should step down from his position following Friday’s fiery Oval Office exchange with Dona...
Hamas has rejected an Israeli request to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, a senior official has said. The militant group will only release the remaining Israeli hostages under the terms of the already agreed-upon phased deal, Mahmoud Mardawi told Al Jazeera on Sunday. Under a plan put forwa...
The King is caught in the middle – his job here is huge This meeting felt worlds apart from Zelenskyy’s bruising clash with Trump at the White House. Taking place in the tranquil calm of the King’s Norfolk estate, the two men met in private. No live broadcasts, no conversations on came...
US Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy might need to leave office in order for Ukraine to achieve a peace deal with Russia, as Lord Mandelson says Kyiv should commit to a ceasefire before Russia. “Something has to change,” Mr Johnson told NBC. “Either he needs to com...
Boxer Gervonta Davis has held onto his WBA lightweight title despite voluntarily dropping a knee to the canvas and getting hair product wiped from his face. His opponent, Lamont Roach, said the knee position should have counted as a “knockdown”. Had it been, Davis would have lost a point and...
Pope Francis has said he feels “carried” and “supported by all God’s people” as he continues to recover from double pneumonia. The pontiff, 88, skipped his weekly noon blessing on Sunday for the third time in a row, avoiding even a brief public appearance and having the Vat...
A British-Israeli woman who was kidnapped by Hamas and held hostage for 271 days in Gaza has undergone a series of operations for wounds she suffered on the day she was taken captive. Emily Damari was at home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched its massacre in Israel, killing 62 .....
The UK, France and Ukraine will work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States, the prime minister has said, in the wake of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House clash with Donald Trump. Sir Keir Starmer, who visited Washington on Thursday, said he believes Mr Trump does want a “lastin...
