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Threats have been made against the judges who banned Donald Trump from standing for president in Colorado next year. “Significant violent rhetoric” against the justices and Democrats was uncovered on social media in the 24 hours after Tuesday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court. NBC News, Sky News’ US partner, reported on the findings by

As smoke rose into the overcast skies of Deir al Balah in Central Gaza on 5 December, the whine of an aircraft could still be heard overhead. The Musabeh family’s home had been destroyed. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 0:19 Footage of smoke plume from the blast at the Musabeh

People in Iceland have been told to stay at home and “get into the Christmas spirit” rather than attempt the risky journey to the site of the erupted volcano. A gash two miles long has opened up on the Reykjanes peninsula, spewing between 100 and 200 cubic metres of lava every second. Though the lava

Africa’s first female billionaire has lost her High Court fight against an application to freeze up to £580m of her assets. Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, whose father Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years until 2017, is being sued by Unitel, a telecoms operator in the African country. The firm asked London’s High

For the first time in India’s parliamentary history, 78 lawmakers were suspended in a single day. A large swath of INDIA Alliance MPs were dismissed on Monday, with a further 49 excluded today making a total of 141 suspended. The alliance, which has 142 MPs in the lower house and 101 MPs in the upper

Israel will compete at Eurovision next year, despite calls for the country to be banned over its conflict with Hamas, organisers have said. Artists from Iceland had called for a boycott of the contest in Malmo, Sweden, unless Israel was prevented from taking part, after its ground invasion of Gaza. Irish broadcaster RTE has also

Elon Musk’s X is being investigated by the EU over its efforts to combat disinformation and harmful content. The social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is the first to be probed under the bloc’s Digital Services Act. It came into force in November 2022 and requires large online companies to do more to tackle

Artificial rain has been used for the first time in Pakistan to battle hazardous levels of smog. Planes equipped with cloud-seeding equipment – which helps clouds form and increases precipitation – flew over areas of Lahore on Saturday. The megacity in Pakistan’s east is often ranked as one of the worst places in the world

Israeli forces battling Hamas claim to have uncovered the largest Hamas tunnel found in Gaza, designed to carry carloads of Hamas fighters up to the border with Israel. Neutralising the hundreds of kilometres of underground tunnels and bunkers in Gaza is among the aims of the Israeli offensive, launched after Hamas fighters went on a killing and

Israel’s ambassador to the UK has insisted there will be no Palestinian state and that Israel believes there is no prospect of a two-state solution. Although it has been evident for some time that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government were no advocates for such a post-war peace, this is the first time the

The former president of a top division Turkish football club has been handed a permanent ban after punching a referee at the end of a match. Faruk Koca was arrested after hitting Halil Umut Meler at the end of a Super Lig match on Monday night. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) made the decision to

It had all the makings of one of those nightmare EU summits. A crucially important meeting that would drag on rancorously late beyond the end of the week. The villain of the piece, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban – whose critics call him Putin’s puppet – had arrived looking up for a fight. There was

The conflict in Ukraine is far from over but it’s little wonder Vladimir Putin is feeling emboldened. Discussions on Ukraine’s route to accession into the European Union are top of the agenda for this week’s two-day EU summit. But there are a number of key preconditions that Ukraine will have to satisfy before it can

The Philippines has said it is contingency planning for an escalation of hostilities with China. The two nations have been in a series of confrontations in the South China Sea, one involving a crew being forced to stave off Chinese forces that attempting to board Philippine vessels. Relations have significantly deteriorated this year after several

President Putin has said Russia’s war goals remain unchanged and there won’t be peace in Ukraine until they are achieved. He has been taking questions during a four-hour phone-in. The Q&A had been a regular fixture on Russian television, but didn’t happen during the first year after the invasion in February 2022. Ukraine war latest:

Mainland Spain has recorded its hottest December day, putting the nation’s ski season at risk. The country is nearing the end of its hottest year on record after a summer that has produced four heatwaves, part of a global pattern of rising temperatures that scientists say is down to human caused climate change. A mass

A review into a massive police data breach in Northern Ireland has blamed a force-wide lack of prioritisation of data security. A report from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) found the data breach, which saw details of all employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) accidentally published online, was not the result

India’s top court has upheld a decision by the government to strip special status from Jammu and Kashmir. The Supreme Court also set a deadline of 30 September next year for local elections to be held. Jammu and Kashmir – India’s only Muslim-majority region – has been the subject of more than 75 years of

The United Nations climate chief has warned governments against “blowing up” current climate negotiations, where a decision on a crucial motion on fossil fuels hangs in the balance with just 24 hours left on the clock. A resolution to “phase out fossil fuels” has gathered traction at COP28 in Dubai like never before at a

Russia has become stronger as a result of the conflict in Ukraine – just as it did by defeating Hitler and Napoleon – its foreign minister has claimed. In a wide-ranging series of assertions, Sergei Lavrov said the “hybrid war” that the West is supposedly waging against Russia is based on “cancel culture”. He also