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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

The latest ground raid into Gaza by Israeli troops has an important distinction from previous incursions. This time the soldiers did not immediately pull out after their attack. Instead, they are “continuing the war” inside the northern part of the enclave in an expansion of Israel’s ground operation. The move is different to a large-scale

Israel will expand ground operations tonight and has warned residents of Gaza City to move south. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), said: “In addition to the attacks that we carried out in recent days, ground forces are expanding their activity this evening. “The IDF is acting with great

Israel accused Hamas of launching attacks from hospitals in Gaza, said this was a war crime and signalled that such action could make medical facilities a legitimate target. A military spokesperson claimed the Israeli authorities had “concrete evidence” that hundreds of Hamas fighters who took part in the 7 October terrorist atrocity in southern Israel

Israeli forces backed by warplanes and drones have carried out a second ground raid in Gaza as aid trickles into the besieged territory amid warnings of a deepening “humanitarian catastrophe”. The operation comes as the Israeli military prepares for a widely expected invasion of the Hamas-governed enclave. Meanwhile, US jets struck targets in eastern Syria

There is likely to be a relative amount of cautious optimism from both the US and Chinese camps regarding the efforts to try and stabilise their relations. It feels that Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to Washington, where he has met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has got off to a reasonably