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In a dusty clearing in Lithuania, NATO is rolling out the big guns. Leopard 2 tanks fire their rounds with a deafening thud, while Puma fighting vehicles add to the eerie chorus, accompanied by the buzz of helicopter blades. The firepower on display is the crescendo of the alliance’s biggest military training exercise since the

A person has died at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after becoming trapped in a running aircraft engine, according to police. The Dutch airline KLM said the aircraft was bound for Billund in Denmark, carrying passengers on flight KL1341. In a statement, the company said: “We are currently taking care of the passengers and employees who

On the night of 26 May, an Israeli airstrike hit the neighbourhood of Tel al Sultan in Rafah. At least 45 people were killed as structures in an area housing displaced Palestinians were set alight, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza. Location of the strike Image: Pic: Sky News and Planet Labs PBC

Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be criminally convicted. A New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in order to commit election fraud. Trump was at the centre of a “hush money” scheme to buy the silence of a porn star in the days before the 2016 election.

Thousands in Papua New Guinea have been ordered to evacuate from the path of a landslide that killed at least 670 people, as fears grow of a second major rockfall. Officials from the Pacific country said the chance of finding survivors under the rubble in Yambali is slim, after previously saying they believe more than

The southern Gazan city of Rafah has become “hell on Earth”, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said. According to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, at least 45 people were killed in a tent camp after an Israeli airstrike on Sunday, described by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “tragic mistake”. Philippe

Emergency services are at Dublin Airport after 12 people were injured on a flight due to turbulence. Six passengers and six crew members on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin were hurt after experiencing turbulence over Turkey. Graeme McQueen, media relations manager at daa, the operator of Dublin Airport, told Sky News: “Qatar

Hamas has launched rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza for the first time in months. The barrage of rockets set off air raid sirens in cities as far away as Tel Aviv. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January,

More than 4,000 people have been impacted, and hundreds feared dead, by a massive landslide that flattened a village in northern Papua New Guinea on Friday. The landslide hit the Pacific nation at around 3am local time on Friday (7pm on Thursday UK time) and levelled the mountainous Kaokalam village in Enga Province – about

Not many people predicted the big defection of footballers from Europe to the Saudi Pro League last summer – except maybe the Saudis themselves and a handful of key agents. In all, 23 players swapped the Premier League for the heat of Arabia and massive tax-free pay rises. Aleksandar Mitrovic and Ruben Neves left Fulham

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to stop its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The court said the humanitarian situation in Rafah had “deteriorated further” since its previous court order, adding the situation there was classed as “disastrous”. It comes after South Africa put in an emergency request to

China has tested its ability to “seize power” by launching mock missile strikes on Taiwan and pretending to bomb foreign assets. The two-day tests were staged to punish Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, who China has previously denounced as being a “dangerous separatist”. China dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles along with bombers on Friday,

A huge fire has broken out at an amusement park in western India, leaving at least 20 people dead. The blaze happened at the park in the city of Rajkot in Gujarat state, with the cause of the fire being investigated. Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava said the flames were now under control and 20 bodies

Two people have been killed and at least 12 have been injured after a building collapsed on a beach in Majorca, emergency services said. The building collapsed in the capital of the island, Palma – a tourist hotspot. Spanish media is reporting the building affected is a restaurant. Firefighters and local police were called to

The three-minute video of five young female Israeli soldiers being taken by Hamas from their base on 7 October is harrowing and extremely upsetting to watch. The soldiers are Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa and Naama Levy. They all worked at the Nahal Oz observation base, monitoring activity on the Gaza border.

A 50-year-old man has been caught on camera jumping off a pleasure boat to try and “body slam” an orca in New Zealand, in what was branded “disgraceful” and “pathetic” behaviour. “Shocking” footage of the man diving into the sea to land on the orca with his body has sparked uproar on social media after