World

In late May, Zelensky confirmed Ukraine had formally asked the US to authorise licensed production of Patriots. After four-and-a-half years of war the fighting on the frontline has mostly stalled, the Black Sea is at a standstill, and Ukraine has by and large learned to counter the hundreds of drones …

On Tuesday evening, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior Iranian figures flew to Iraq to take part in the ceremonies for Khamenei. The Iranian delegation was welcomed on arrival by Iraqi Prime Minister al-Zaidi, whose government declared Wednesday a public holiday. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded …

Seven students and a teacher have been killed in Bangladesh after a landslide hit a girls’ school inside a refugee camp. The Islamic study centre in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar was buried by mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, sparking frantic search and rescue efforts. It is unclear …

At least five children have died in a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh, two days after eight people, including five children, died in a separate landslide in the area. Rescuers continue to search for more children feared to be buried after the landslide hit an Islamic school …

A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients. A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with German privacy rules, guilty of murdering 12 women and 3 men between September 2021 and July 2024. …

Severe flooding that hit southern China earlier this week could expand to other provinces with the arrival of Super Typhoon Bavi at the weekend. Towns and villages in Hengzhou, the epicentre of the floods in Guangxi province, were inundated with water on Monday after dams at local reservoirs failed amid …

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the US of breaching their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on this issue, and others, including the attacks in southern Iran and “violating Iranian adjustments in the Strait”. “The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold,” he said. …

A 22-year-old firefighter has died tackling a wildfire in France as the country deals with more scorching temperatures. Interior minister Laurent Nunez announced the man’s death on X with “deep sadness” and said the volunteer member had died “in the line of duty” in the Savoie region. Recent heatwaves have …

France is waking up bleary-eyed on Wednesday, with many still incredulous at the political uproar triggered by right-wing nationalist figurehead Marine Le Pen the night before. Within hours of a court of appeal in Paris confirming her guilty verdict for misuse of public funds, she not only defiantly announced she …

If you want to get a sense of the fuel crisis gripping Russia, all you need to do is spend a day driving around Moscow. At almost every petrol station we passed there was a queue of cars and lorries. Some lines were long, some short; some static, others moving …

A Qatari tanker has been hit as it travelled through the Strait of Hormuz, suffering significant damage, Qatar’s foreign ministry has said. The Al Rekayyat vessel, which was loaded with liquefied natural gas, sent out distress signals calling for aid after it was struck on its port side, a source …

A man has died after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Houston, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national it claimed was in the US illegally, had attempted to evade arrest following a vehicle stop and was fired …

FIFA will formally discuss lifting the ban on all Russian teams after the International Olympic Committee urged all sports to end war-related sanctions, Sky News can reveal. No Russian teams have played in international competitions since they were banned by FIFA and UEFA after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in …

Black-clad Turkish police on street corners, giant blue banners proclaiming “The Key to Peace” and a ceremonial welcome for Donald Trump. This may be a Nato summit but it’s the US president who’s had the metaphorical red carpet laid out for him. Trump has made no secret of his disdain …

French hard-right leader Marine Le Pen has said she will run for the presidency in 2027, and appeal to the country’s highest court against an embezzlement conviction that requires her to wear an electronic tag for a year. “I can’t campaign with a tag,” the National Rally leader told French …

Hungary’s main public television channel has halted news broadcasts, while a state-run radio station has been suspended altogether, in a bid to make its media “independent and trustworthy”. The country’s former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who was ousted in April after 16 years in power, had tightly controlled state media. …

Five people have been killed and 12 others are trapped after a landslide in northern China. Rescuers were deployed to the scene in Gansu province at 7am local time on Tuesday, where 33 people were initially trapped in a valley in Tanchang county. They had found 21 people by the …

A French appeals court has cleared the way for Marine Le Pen to run in the 2027 presidential election – but with an electronic tag. The far-right leader was found guilty of misappropriating public funds by a court last March. Her political future had been on the line today as …

The woman suspected of carrying out a parcel bombing in Monaco which reportedly injured a sanctioned Ukrainian multi-millionaire and his family has been found dead, Ukraine’s security service (SBU) has said. A cross-border manhunt had been launched for Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian woman who officials believed had fled the wealthy …

The body of a woman suspected of carrying out a bombing reportedly targeting a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia has been found in Ukraine, prosecutors say. Interpol put out an alert after Vadym Iermolaiev was said to have been targeted in a blast in the wealthy principality. Anastasiia Berezovska, …