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Donald Trump has shared a bizarre AI-generated video on his Truth Social social media platform showcasing what appears to be a vision of Gaza under his proposed plan. The footage, which the 78-year-old posted without comment, shows the war-ravaged territory before a caption appears: “Gaza 2025...
Donald Trump has shared a bizarre AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform showcasing what appears to be a vision of Gaza under his proposed plan. The footage, which the 78-year-old shared without comment, shows the war-ravaged territory before a caption appears: “Gaza 2025… What...
The image of Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi being released from Gaza a little over two weeks ago, looking gaunt and weak, shocked and angered Israel and leaders around the world. His brother Sharon, who fought for months to secure his release, has told Sky News that Eli was tortured by Hamas and barely saw...
How much have America, Britain and the rest paid Ukraine in aid since the Russian invasion? And do they have any hope of getting money back in return? These are big questions, and they’re likely to dominate much of the discussion in the coming months as Donald Trump pressurises his Ukrainian count...
A couple have said they were forced to sit next to a dead body for four hours on a Qatar Airways flight. Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were travelling from Melbourne to Doha, en route to Italy, when a woman walked out the toilet and collapsed near their row about 10 hours into the journey. ...
Ukraine has agreed terms with the United States on a crucial minerals deal, a Ukrainian government source has told Sky News. There has been no confirmation from the US side yet. The accord, once signed, could unlock a new long-term partnership between Kyiv and Donald Trump‘s White House after week...
A large bruise that appeared on Donald Trump’s hand is down to him shaking a lot of hands, the White House has said. Mr Trump‘s right hand seemed bruised during the 78-year-old’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, prompting speculation on social media over his hea...
An asteroid that had a very small chance of hitting Earth is no longer a potential threat, according to scientists. The 2024 YR4 asteroid climbed to the top of the risk list earlier this month when the chance of a collision in 2032 tripled from 1.2% to about 3% (about one in 33). It first ...
The ongoing war in Sudan is a vicious and complex conflict. After a military coup ended a fledgling civilian government in 2021, the two forces who launched it – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – eventually turned on each other, kicking off an...
The body of a British businessman who went missing in Kenya more than a week ago was reportedly found in a sack of pineapples in a forest. Campbell Scott, believed to be from Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland, was last seen attending a conference at the JW Marriot Hotel in the capital Nairobi on 16 February...
Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to sign away up to 50% of its mineral supplies. Amid concerns Mr Trump would withdraw aid if elected, during a meeting at Trump Tower in September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly proposed a US stake in Ukrainian mineral...
This is the moment the government finally woke up to the enormity of the threat faced by the UK and the inability of its hollowed-out armed forces to cope. But make no mistake, it is not just about increasing the number of troops, warships and fighter jets or even ensuring they can use the latest ...
Pope Francis has met leading Vatican officials in hospital as he continues his recovery from pneumonia in both lungs. The pontiff, 88, who is receiving treatment at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, met Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, the so-called Vatican “substitute”...
A company in China that introduced a policy threatening single employees with termination if they were not married by the end of September says it has withdrawn its notice. The Shuntian Chemical Group, based in eastern China’s Shandong province, told its 1,200 employees last month that any unmarri...
The arrest of a British couple in Afghanistan was over a “misunderstanding,” the Taliban has said. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained by the Taliban’s interior ministry on 1 February. The reason for their arrests was immediately unknown. But the Taliban said on...
A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river. The mountain, dubbed “puppy mountain”, sits in the city of Yichang in central China’s Hubei province – and while it has been there for some time, its popularity has skyrocke...
An American woman suspected of throwing her newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, has been detained in the French capital. The baby is believed to have been thrown from the second floor of the hotel in the 20th arrondissement on Monday morning, the Paris prosecutor’s office sai...
A Colombian man has been caught trying to smuggle £8,000 worth of cocaine under a wig. The drugs were discovered by police after the 40-year-old attempted to board a plane to Amsterdam, Netherlands, at Rafael Nunez International Airport. Footage released by police showed the wig being cut off the man...
An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Africa office said the first outbreak was discovered in the town of Boloko, in the northwest of the country. It is reported that three children a...
Galatasaray have accused Fenerbahce head coach Jose Mourinho of making “racist statements” against Turkish people and say they intend to launch criminal proceedings against him. The Turkish league leaders said they would also submit complaints to governing bodies UEFA and FIFA over the...
Emmanuel Macron has said a peace deal with Russia “must not mean a surrender of Ukraine” – as Donald Trump claimed Vladimir Putin’s forces “want to end this war”. The US and French presidents met amid fragile relations between America and Europe and after Mr Trump lau...
Harun is sitting hunched on a bed with a sheet over his head. He lives in a state of psychosis and wants to return to his home in central Khartoum. He tells us where to turn and which bridges to cross to get him there. The war has ripped away the stability that kept him ...
A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya eight days ago has been found dead. Campbell Scott was last seen attending a conference at the JW Marriot Hotel in Nairobi on 16 February. He was a senior director at credit scoring firm Fico, based at their London office. The company said police had ident...
A former surgeon who is alleged to have raped and sexually abused 299 victims – most of them children who were his patients – told the opening of his trial in France he had committed “despicable acts”. Warning: This story contains details which some readers may find distressing J...
Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are “ghastly to hear” and “complete untruths”, former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said. A friend of both men, however, he said he was “optimistic” Kyiv and Washington would agree an...
Did you know there’s a critical product – one without which we’d all be dead – which Europe is actually importing more of from Russia now than before the invasion of Ukraine? It might feel a bit pointless, given how much chat there is right now about the end of the Ukraine war, t...
The US has abstained from a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution it drafted on the war in Ukraine after the body approved amendments proposed by European countries. The vote took place on the same day the 193-member assembly approved a competing European-backed resolution from Ukraine which demanded...
Pope Francis’s health has shown a “slight improvement” but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said. The Pope, 88, has been at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital since 14 February and is being treated for double pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. In a statement on Monday even...
In a strictly military sense, the war in Ukraine is not going so badly for Kyiv. Russian territorial gains on the ground have slowed to a crawl since last November for which they are losing, on average, some 1,500 men every day. They have almost – but still not quite – taken Toretsk. And af...
China’s military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin – after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries. Vietnam’s foreign ministry announced the baseline – used to determine limits to territor...
Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to “create unity” in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Mr Merz’s task will be complicated by the need to form a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrat...
Two women and a man have been found guilty of spying for Russia in a huge espionage operation from a guesthouse in Great Yarmouth. Katrin Ivanova, 33, a lab assistant from Harrow, north London, Vanya Gaberova, 30, a beautician from Acton, west London, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a painter and decorator fr...
Former Arsenal and Real Madrid footballer Mesut Ozil has transitioned into politics after joining Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party. The retired German midfielder, 36, was named on the ruling AK Party’s (AKP) Central Decision and Management Board during a party congress on Sunda...
An American Airlines flight travelling from New York to New Delhi was diverted midair due to a “bomb threat”. Flight 292 landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport “due to a possible security issue,” the airline said in a statement on Sunday, adding later the...
An explosion has taken place at a Russian consulate in France, according to reports. The incident took place inside the building in the southern city of Marseille, Russia’s consul general inMarseille, Stanislav Oranskiy, said on Monday, according to Russian news outlet RBC. French media earlier re...
Pope Francis is “resting” in hospital and the night “went well”, The Vatican has said in its latest update. It comes after The Vatican said on Sunday that the Pope was in a critical condition and was showing an “initial, mild” kidney problem – but was “vig...
In her desperate search for answers over her son Valentin’s death, Elena even turned to Vladimir Putin. She wrote to the Russian president demanding an explanation as to why an 18-year-old conscript was involved in combat. Throughout the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin promised that conscripts wouldn...
In less than a fortnight, Donald Trump has shredded long-standing security assumptions about American support for Europe, creating a new crisis for Ukraine and leaving the whole continent in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The dramatic unravelling of transatlantic ties comes a...
Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) have won the country’s federal elections – as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) scores its best-ever result and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party collapses. Th...
Initial exit polls appear to confirm what we have known for weeks: that the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) have got the most votes in the federal election, with Friedrich Merz most likely to be the next chancellor. While this resul...
A British couple in their 70s who run education programmes in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban, their children say. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained earlier this month but the reason for their arrests is unknown. Their four adult children have said the couple were...
The Hezbollah faithful packed into Lebanon’s largest stadium to show their support for the group and pay their respects to their charismatic leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike. His coffin was paraded around the ground whilst mourners wept and tried to clamber on...
Israeli tanks have moved into the Occupied West Bank shortly after the defence minister declared an escalation of its operation – ordering troops to remain there “for the coming year”. In a statement on Sunday, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said he has instructed the military to...
Police in Spain have arrested 48 people in connection with a suspected human trafficking ring – believed to have lured more than 1,000 women to the country for sex work. Armed officers from the Policia Nacional carried out raids across Alicante and Murcia in southeastern Spain, the force said in a...
Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Ukraine since the war started, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. He condemned Russia for its “aerial terror” as he reported more than 250 drones had hit his country overnight. It comes ahead of the third-year anniversary of Russ...
A man who has been released from prison after 30 years for a crime he says he never committed has been readjusting to life – and getting used to just how connected people are now. Gordon Cordeiro was jailed in 1994 over the murder of Timothy Blaisdell on the island of Maui, but due to ...
The Pope remains in a critical condition and is now showing an “initial, mild” kidney problem – but is “vigilant” and took part in Mass in hospital with those caring for him. The Vatican statement said Francis hadn’t had any more “respiratory crises” since...
Pope Francis had a “tranquil” night and rested in hospital, the Vatican has said. Unlike previous updates since the Pope was admitted to hospital on 14 February, the Vatican didn’t say whether he had gotten up or had breakfast. The 88-year-old has been in hospital for more than a week...
Voters are heading to the polls in Germany’s general election. They are electing a new parliament after a campaign focused on the state of Europe’s biggest economy and calls to restrict migration. The vote also comes at a time of fragile relations between Europe and the US over Ukraine...
Visits by prime ministers to the American president matter much more to us “Brits” than they do to them. Donald Trump spelt this out in the off-hand way he announced that he had granted Sir Keir Starmer the coveted appointment in his busy schedule. “We have a lot of good things going o...
