World

The bird flu virus isolated from a girl who died from the disease had mutations that made it better adapted to human cells, Sky News has learned. The 11-year-old is believed to have been infected by poultry kept by her family in Prey Veng province, in the south of Cambodia. Her father also tested positive

At least 36 people have been killed and dozens injured after two trains crashed head-on at high speed in Greece. A passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided with a freight train outside Larissa just before midnight. The collision occurred as the passenger train emerged from a tunnel near the

Police are searching a landfill site as they investigate the murder of a Hong Kong model whose dismembered legs were found inside a fridge. More than 100 officers wearing protective suits used excavators and shovels to search for Abby Choi’s hands and torso which remain missing. A young woman’s skull, which is believed to be

The US has asked Mexico to extradite Ovidio Guzman, son of notorious drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Two Mexican government sources told Reuters news agency that the US government wants the younger Guzman to face criminal charges in a US court. The 32-year-old has been charged in the US with conspiracy to traffic cocaine,

The scarred and battered mining town of Vuhledar sits perched on a hill in the Donetsk region. It comes into view as we make our way along boggy farm tracks. It’s a desolate place of burned out buildings, another casualty of this gruesome war. It’s held by Ukraine but is being attacked continuously by Russian

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to de-escalate tensions and “prevent more violence”. Palestinian and Israeli delegations met in Jordan on Sunday in an attempt to reduce tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which starts on 22 March. In a joint statement, Israel agreed to halt new settlement approvals in the occupied

At least 59 migrants, including 12 children, have drowned after their boat broke up off the southern coast of Italy’s mainland. A ship carrying up to 150 migrants ran into trouble in rough seas at dawn on Sunday near the coastal town of Crotone, in Calabria, the Coast Guard said. Manuela Curra, a provincial government

Sky News has gained rare access to the warzone that is northwest Syria, now also hit by devastating earthquakes. Children were found dying and others have been left mutilated after a string of delays by the international community to help the last-remaining opposition area. The Sky team have visited the area twice, most recently spending

Buryatia feels like it is a world away from war in Europe. It is a different Russia. Vast snowy plains and Buddhist temples, closer at first glance to Mongolia next door than it is to Moscow, five time zones away. But the motifs of Russia’s war in Ukraine are everywhere. A huge Z and V

President Vladimir Putin might have hoped for a swift and decisive invasion of Ukraine; instead, a year on, Russia has paid a huge price for his imperial ambition. However, time is a powerful ally for Mr Putin, and victory could still be secured. What would some form of Russian success mean for Western security? Putin’s

“After six months, you go home and receive a pardon. There are no options to return to prison. You have five minutes to decide.” The footage is grainy but it captures a clear offer to the hundreds of inmates gathered in this Russian prison yard: survive six months fighting with the Wagner Group in Ukraine

It is only a matter of time before Vladimir Putin is on trial for war crimes according to President Biden’s envoy for global criminal justice. Speaking to Sky News, ambassador Beth Van Schaack said a global coalition of nations and international lawyers is working together to build a case against Russia which leads right to

The UK is reviewing the size of its ammunition stockpiles, Sky News can reveal. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed how past assumptions on what would be needed to fight a war were far too small, Whitehall and defence industry sources have said. They urged Rishi Sunak to boost military spending to fund a massive

Ukraine’s foreign minister has insisted that Western fighter jets would not be used by his country to strike targets within Russia. Speaking to Sky News at the United Nations in New York, Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine needs the jets to end the war and push Russia back beyond its eastern borders. “We’re using weapons which

About 200,000 people have gathered in Moscow to hear Vladimir Putin speak at a pro-war rally ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Huge crowds assembled in the capital as the Russian president took to the stage at the “Glory to Defenders of the Fatherland” concert, held at the Luzhniki Stadium on

Russia’s president had a message of defiance for the West as he suspended participation in the last major nuclear arms control treaty with the United States. Vladimir Putin also vowed to conduct nuclear weapons tests if Washington chose to do so and challenged the nuclear weapons posture of the UK and France. If anyone in

Vladimir Putin has blamed the West for starting the war in Ukraine and claimed Russia responded with force “in order to stop it”. In a speech describing his aims as the first anniversary of the conflict nears, the Russian president said Ukraine was in talks with the West about weapons before Russia invaded its neighbour

Russia’s president will give an update on what he calls his “special military operation” in Ukraine later. Vladimir Putin will address members of both houses of parliament, military commanders and soldiers – nearly one year after he sent troops into the country. Despite superiority in numbers, Russian troops have been defeated a number of times

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Turkey-Syria border two weeks after a massive quake in the same region left more than 45,000 people dead, the US Geological Survey has said. Turkey’s AFAD disaster management agency said the earthquake was centered around the town of Defne in the country’s Hatay province, which was devastated by

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast as Kim Jong Un’s sister warned of “using the Pacific as our firing range”. The missiles were launched on Monday morning local time and fell into the sea outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the country’s coast guard said. There were no reports of damage