Hundreds of people have been arrested in Russia as rallies have broken out across the country in demand of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s release. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin, with more than 500 people detained so far. The rallies, taking place in Moscow
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The UK will formally apply to join a huge free trade pact including Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore, under the government’s post-Brexit plans. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will use a conversation with ministers in Japan and New Zealand on Monday to request membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Announcing the move
Austria has found 96 foreigners – including British people – at a top ski resort in breach of travel and lockdown rules. The people from across Europe were found in St Anton am Arlberg. The local mayor has said dozens of young tourists had come to the town, circumventing lockdown rules under which ski lifts
France is to close its borders to all countries outside the European Union from Sunday, according to prime minister Jean Castex. All people looking to enter from the EU will need a negative PCR test, except for commuters. UK transport secretary Grant Shapps later clarified the ban would not apply to hauliers, adding “trade will
The United Nations has today demanded more answers about a Yemen airstrike on a family home which a Sky News investigation highlighted last September. The Sky team travelled to the remote village of Washah near the Yemeni-Saudi border where 12 members of the Mujali family lived, to examine the area and talk to multiple eyewitnesses
The EU should consider legal means to secure vaccine doses promised by drug companies including AstraZeneca, the president of the European Council has said. Charles Michel made the comments in a letter as Brussels and AstraZeneca are embroiled in an escalating row over the EU’s slow start to its inoculation programme. AstraZeneca announced it would
The discord between the EU and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca remains despite a meeting between senior figures on Wednesday, with politicians demanding a plan from the company on how they will provide the promised number of coronavirus vaccine doses. European Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said after the meeting that the bloc “regret the continued lack
Masked men have broken into the Moscow flat of detained Vladmir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, according to one of his allies. Ivan Zhdanov, head of Mr Navalny‘s anti-corruption foundations, said that they broke down the door of his apartment on Wednesday afternoon and searched it. Mr Zhdanov added that Mr Navalny’s brother, Oleg, was in
AstraZeneca’s chief executive has hit back at the EU by saying that “glitches” in the supply of coronavirus vaccines to the bloc are due to it signing its contract three months after the UK. In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Pascal Soriot admitted there had been “teething problems” in various regions, including Europe
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned, according to the country’s president. Mr Conte survived two confidence votes in parliament last week, but then lost his absolute majority in the Senate after centrist ally and former PM Matteo Renzi defected. This has made it much more difficult for the premier to pass legislation or make
A Ugandan court has ordered the military and police to stop surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, who says he has been held under house arrest since the country’s presidential elections. Mr Wine’s lawyer George Musisi told the Reuters news agency: “The judge ordered that the state and its agenciesshould immediately vacate his
Conditions in the city of Manaus, deep in the Amazon rainforest where the Brazilian variant of COVID-19 is believed to have originated, are now so bad that people are suffocating in hospital beds without oxygen. It’s being described as like a “medieval plague” and the fear is that it’s going to continue to spread. With
Nineteen bodies have been found near a Mexican town on the US border which has seen a number of gang-related disputes in recent years. The bodies, which had been shot and burned, were discovered on a dirt road close to the town of Camargo, across the Rio Grande from Texas, after complaints from locals about
Eleven gold miners have been rescued a fortnight after they were trapped by an underground explosion in China, according to state media reports. It is not known how many others are still alive in the mine. State media footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out
The head of Lebanon’s main coronavirus hospital has said the country’s health system is close to collapse – with not enough beds, drugs, oxygen, ventilators or staff. In a stark interview with Sky News, Dr Firas Abiad said the government decision to relax coronavirus restrictions over a few fateful days at Christmas and New Year
Hundreds of people have reportedly been detained as a series of demonstrations in support of jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny begins across Russia. The gatherings, which police have declared illegal, are the first by Mr Navalny’s supporters since he was arrested last weekend on his return to Moscow, after spending five months in Germany recovering