A former Russian transport minister has been found dead with a gunshot wound in his car just hours after it was revealed he had been sacked from his role.
An enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit off the far east of Russia - potentially the sixth largest on record....
An earthquake off the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka has triggered tsunami warnings in Japan, China, Hawaii, the US and central and Latin America....
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings for several countries....
A Russian airstrike on a prison in southeastern Ukraine has killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 80 others....
The United Nations has condemned airdrops on Gaza, warning they risk killing the starving Palestinians they are intended to help....
Israel has agreed to support a "one-week scale-up of aid" in Gaza - but the United Nations has warned more action is needed to "stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis"....
At least five people have been killed after Russia and Ukraine traded aerial bombardments overnight, officials have said....
A charity has warned 25% of young children and pregnant women in Gaza are now malnourished, with Sir Keir Starmer vowing to evacuate children who need "critical medical assistance" to the UK....
Disaster zones have been declared in two provinces of Turkey as new wildfires broke out on the Mediterranean coast....
A Russian plane carrying 48 people - including children - has crashed with no survivors, according to reports....
Thousands of Ukrainians demonstrated against the passing of a controversial bill threatening anti-corruption infrastructure in their country....
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said Gaza is suffering "man-made mass starvation" because of an Israeli blockade on aid to the enclave....
For the first time since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, Palestinian officials have said that dozens of people are dying of hunger....
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played The Cosby Show character Theo, has drowned in Costa Rica, according to authorities....
Donald Trump is clearly seething over the term 'TACO' (Trump always chickens out) - a phrase that has characterised financial market trading over the past few months....
Oleksandr Usyk has become boxing's undisputed heavyweight champion for a second time after beating Britain's Daniel Dubois at a packed Wembley Stadium....
Volodmyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has proposed renewed ceasefire talks with Russia for next week....
Dozens of Russian spies have been sanctioned by the government - including those responsible for targeting Yulia Skripal five years before her attempted murder in Salisbury....
Syria's president has said protecting the rights of the Druze population is "our priority" after Israel warned it would destroy forces attacking the minority....
When Donald Trump arrived at the White House for the first time nine years ago, he vowed to tear up the rule book, upend the world order and fundamentally change America's approach to its foreign relations....
Israeli airstrikes have targeted the Syrian military headquarters in Damascus amid renewed clashes in the country....
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As ever, there is confusion and key questions are left unanswered, but Donald Trump's announcement on Ukraine and Russia remains hugely significant....
Donald Trump has agreed to send "top of the line weapons" to NATO to support Ukraine - and threatened Russia with "severe" tariffs if it doesn't agree to end the war....
A military exercise bringing together more than 35,000 personnel across 19 different nations, including the UK, is under way in Australia - with Chinese spy ships expected to watch....
At least 798 people in Gaza have reportedly been killed while receiving aid in the past six weeks - while acute malnutrition is said to have reached an all-time high....
The International Criminal Court (ICC) believes war crimes and crimes against humanity are taking place in Sudan, where civil war has raged for more than two years....
Donald Trump has said he plans to hit Canada with a 35% tariff on imported goods, as he warned of a blanket 15 or 20% hike for most other countries....
Russia has launched its largest drone strike against Ukraine, the country's air force has said....
US President Donald Trump is putting "heavy" pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza, two sources close to the ceasefire negotiations have told Sky News....
07/07/2025 14:30
Skynews
