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Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after its war with Hamas. The Israeli prime minister’s comments are the clearest indication of his country’s plans to maintain control over the Gaza Strip, which is home to 2.3 million Palestinians. Mr Netanyahu told ABC News that Israel should

The Lebanese foreign minister has told Sky News that discussions with Hezbollah and its Iranian funders have left him “less pessimistic” about the outbreak of a wider war in the Middle East region. “No one wants war,” Abdallah Bou Habib told us from his office in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. “And I don’t think they’ll

A cloud software giant backed by some of the world’s biggest private investors is in talks about the sale of a multibillion-pound stake to wealthy family offices and state investment funds. Sky News understands that Group Bruxelles Lambert, the vehicle jointly established by the Belgian Frere family, and Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund,

The “Holy Grail of shipwrecks” is to be lifted from the floor of the Caribbean Sea on the orders of the Colombian government. The Spanish galleon San Jose, which sank more than 300 years ago, is believed to have been carrying 200 tons of treasure, including gold, silver and emeralds. Colombia President Gustavo Petro wants

Five people – including two children – have been killed and six others injured after a car crashed into a pub’s outdoor dining area in Australia. Four people, including a boy, two men in their 30s and a woman in her 40s died at the scene after a BMW SUV mounted a kerb and drove

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected claims the war with Russia is at a “stalemate”.  In an exclusive interview with Sky News’ US partner NBC News, the Ukrainian president acknowledged Kyiv’s progress had been slow and said there was “fatigue” with the conflict. But he insisted his military was “still more motivated than any Russians who came

An airport in Germany has closed after an armed man reportedly rammed a vehicle through a security gate. An armed man broke through a gate in Hamburg airport with his vehicle and fired twice into the air with a weapon, a police spokesperson said. No one appeared to be injured, but the airport announced it

Colombia has announced plans to control its hippo population amid fears it is spiralling out of control after drug kingpin Pablo Escobar introduced them to the country. The government said they plan to curb numbers through sterilisation and the transfer of the mammals to other countries – as well as possibly by euthanasia. It comes

An earthquake in Nepal has killed at 69 people – with more deaths expected to be confirmed, officials say. The earthquake struck the west of the country as many people were already asleep on Friday night. Witnesses said it caused houses to collapse and communications to many villages are said to have been cut. The

One of Kenya’s most senior politicians says moves are under way to “amend” the country’s defence agreement with the UK following the alleged murder of a Kenyan woman by British soldiers. Agnes Wanjiru was killed in 2012 and her body dumped in a septic tank. An inquest held in 2019 concluded she had been murdered

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has expressed “regret” after falling victim to a prank call where she acknowledged international “fatigue” over the Ukraine war. Believing she was talking to officials from the African Union, Ms Meloni told a pair of Russian comedians that all sides are nearing the moment in which “everybody understands that we

Police shot a woman in Paris after she allegedly threatened to blow herself up and made death threats on a train. Two police officers together fired eight shots, seriously injuring the woman, after stopping her at a train station, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It marks the latest security incident in France, which has been

Israel’s military says it was targeting a Hamas commander in a strike on a refugee camp in Gaza in which dozens of people are believed to have died. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) say the commander of Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion, who it says was one of the leaders of the massacres in Israel on

Israel said its forces have attacked Hamas gunmen inside the militant group’s vast tunnel network beneath Gaza as fighting shows no sign of stopping. After the first successful rescue of a hostage held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a ceasefire and vowed to crush the group’s ability to govern Gaza.

Israel has said its forces have attacked Hamas gunmen inside the militant group’s vast tunnel network beneath Gaza as fighting shows no sign of stopping. After the first successful rescue of a hostage held by Hamas, Israeli troops appeared to push further into Gaza, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting calls for a ceasefire. Hamas

Police are searching a forest in northern Colombia for the father of footballer Luis Diaz who was kidnapped on the weekend. Luis Manuel Díaz and his wife were at a petrol station in the small town of Barrancas on Saturday when they were abducted by armed men on motorcycles. The Liverpool star’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda,

Israel will not agree to a ceasefire as it would be equivalent to surrendering to Hamas and terrorism, Benjamin Nethanyu has said. The Israeli prime minister said his country would not stop military activity “just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the terrorist attack

Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning that the war with Hamas is at the “beginning of the road” will have “attracted more concern internationally” amid fears about the declining humanitarian situation, Sky’s military analyst Sean Bell has said. He said there is also unlikely to be a reduction in Israel’s air campaign in Gaza despite the ground operation.

Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip “will escalate”, the country’s chief military spokesperson has warned, as troops push deeper into the region. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israel Defence Forces (IDF) troops are deployed along the northern border and “prepared for any scenario”. Dozens of militants were killed overnight, he added, but he refused

Israel has warned of a long war to defeat Hamas, but it will surely be hoping to achieve its other main objective much faster – the rescue of more than 200 hostages. Ground troops have pushed into Gaza in what is being described the “second stage” of their offensive against the militant group that controls