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Afghanistan is launching a four-day polio vaccination campaign, the Taliban-run public health ministry says. Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan are the only two countries in the world...
Iraq’s prime minister has survived an attempted assassination by a drone armed with explosives. The government said the drone targeted Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi’s...
Scores of people have been killed after an oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, with the country’s president mourning the “horrendous loss of life”. Local...
Nine armed Ethiopian factions have joined forces in a bid to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from power. The newly-formed United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and...
Tourists at a beach resort in Mexico were left scrambling for cover after a gang of men shot dead two suspected drug dealers in front of...
A man has been charged over the alleged abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith in Australia. Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, has been charged with various offences including...
More than 28 million “extra years of life” have been lost during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study has found. By comparing the lives cut short...
Police who found missing Cleo Smith in a locked house in Australia say they were “shocked” and then “elated” when the four-year-old confirmed: “My name is...
Missing four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found “alive and well” after disappearing from a camp site in Western Australia more than two weeks ago. A team...
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his ex-UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been charged with fraud in Switzerland. It follows a six-year investigation into a payment...
2070. It’s the most distant net-zero target of any G20 nation, but, as one climate activist in Kolkata, India, told Sky News: “At least it’s a start,...
Drive through the swamplands of Western Siberia, and you’ll pass one oil installation after the next. This is the largest petroleum basin on Earth and the...
The Maldives is fighting for its very survival. As an archipelago of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean, it faces not one but three existential dangers,...
A man brandishing a “long knife” while dressed as the Joker from Batman stabbed several passengers on a Tokyo commuter train before starting a fire in...
At least three people have died and several more are injured after security forces opened fire during Sudan’s largest pro-democracy protest since the military seized control...
More than 160 buildings in a Myanmar town have been destroyed in fires caused by shelling from government troops, according to local media. Tensions between Myanmar’s...
The US Senate has voted unanimously in favour of new restrictions on equipment from Chinese technology companies being installed in American telecommunications networks. The Secure Equipment...
Failure to tackle global vaccine inequality at this weekend’s G20 summit could prolong the pandemic, civil society groups have warned. Campaigners have claimed previous calls to...
Two weeks of global leaders meeting to save the world begin with a one-on-one between the leader of the planet’s biggest religious denomination and its most...
France has detained a British scallop trawler owned by Macduff Shellfish and given a verbal warning to another fishing boat in waters off its coast. French...
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott dies aged 86
‘Millions remain trapped’: Leaseholders still ‘cash cows’ despite update on abolishing ‘feudal’ system
NHS was within ‘six or seven hours’ of running out of PPE in first COVID wave, says Matt Hancock
John Prescott, a pork pie and me – my run-in with Labour’s deputy leader
Yanks’ Judge wins 2nd MVP in unanimous vote
Water companies blocked from using customer cash for ‘undeserved’ bonuses
Google could be forced to sell its Chrome browser over internet search monopoly claims
Dozens of partners take early retirement from accountancy giant PwC
Ford plans to cut 4,000 jobs – including 800 in UK
Inflation hits higher than expected 2.3% in October as energy bills rise
Arrest warrants issued for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence secretary Gallant over alleged war crimes
Four dead and more in hospital with methanol poisoning after drinking ‘free shots’ in Laos
Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia
Spain to legalise about 300,000 undocumented migrants a year
Marius Borg Hoiby: Son of Norway’s crown princess appears in court over alleged rape