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US authorities have agreed to drop their demand for Julian Assange to be extradited from the UK after reaching a plea deal with the WikiLeaks founder. In return for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information, Assange will be sentenced to time served, 62 months – the time

At least eight people are dead after a fire in an office building in the city of Fryazino outside Moscow on Monday, according to Russian emergency services. Two people jumped to their death from the top floors of the burning eight-storey former Russian electronics research institute on Monday and at least six others died in

At least nine people have been killed and 25 were injured after gunmen opened fire in a series of shootings in Russia’s Dagestan region. The attacks targeted a synagogue and an Orthodox church in Derbent as well as a traffic police post later in Makhachkala. Among those killed were six policemen, one national guard officer,

At least six people have died and more than 100 have been wounded in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks, according to Russian authorities. Five people, including two children, were killed by falling debris when five Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the port city of Sevastopol in Russia-annexed Crimea, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the city’s Moscow-installed

Dalal is the little Syrian girl they never thought would survive. Now four years old, despite horrific burn scars and no hands she is confounding the doctors, her family and everyone who knows her, all over again. We watch as she concentrates hard on manoeuvring a pen between the stumps which she’s been left with.

The father and brother of Jay Slater, the British teenager missing in Tenerife since Monday, have made emotional pleas for his safe return. Warren Slater, the 19-year-old’s father, told Sky News he is “just hoping that somebody has helped him off this mountain”. He added: “That’s all I want, that somebody has helped him get

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed, and 50 injured, after Israeli tanks are said to have fired on tents sheltering displaced families in Rafah, according to health officials and emergency workers in Gaza. Witnesses said the latest attack in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, took place in Mawasi, western Rafah,

Helicopters, rescue dogs and drones have continued to scour the holiday island of Tenerife for a missing British teenager as concerned family and friends endure a “living nightmare”. The hunt for 19-year-old Jay Slater from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, is now in its fifth day. The apprentice bricklayer was holidaying with friends on Tenerife

A British tourist has been stabbed to death outside a nightclub near Barcelona, according to local media. The incident happened at about 5am local time (4am UK) this morning in Calella, about 30 miles away from the city. Police have confirmed that there was a fatality, and another person was injured and taken to hospital.

Photographs show the Tenerife property where British teenager Jay Slater is believed to have been last seen before he went missing on Monday. A Snapchat video shared by the 19-year-old on Sunday night appears to show the property he visited in the northwestern mountain village of Masca after attending the NRG music festival. Mr Slater,

Vladimir Putin hit out at what he called “Western isolation” and heaped praise on Vietnam, as Russia’s president continues his tour of Asia. In an opinion piece, published to coincide with his arrival in Hanoi, Putin praised Vietnam for its “balanced” stance on the war in Ukraine. Ukraine war latest: UK says ‘bizarre’ deal should

A British teenager who is missing in Tenerife had “cut his leg on a cactus” and did not know where he was, a friend has told Sky News. Lucy Law said 19-year-old Jay Slater is “not a stupid boy” and would have flagged down any passing car or spoken to passers by. Mr Slater, from

“You can’t do this job without a gun. You have to carry a gun,” the man opposite me calmly explains. “When there is disagreement, they come to you at night and empty two bullets in you and then disappear.” The high-risk job he’s describing isn’t in the military or the police – he is a

It’s a bizarre sight. After hours of winding through paddy fields full of farmers toiling in the searing heat, I’ve arrived at what looks like a Disneyland tribute to Rome. It’s a shock of golden gates and palatial mansions, framed by statement statues and Renaissance pillars. This is Billionaire Village – a place once poor,

A suspected bird strike sparked a fire on a passenger plane shortly after take-off – forcing it to make an emergency landing. The blaze shut down one engine of a Virgin Australia 737-800 flight from Queenstown in New Zealand to Melbourne in Australia, according to New Zealand’s fire service. The fire caused the flight to

Eighty countries called for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” to be the basis of any peace deal on Sunday – but a number of nations did not join in. World leaders including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron were among around 100 delegations at a two-day conference in Switzerland this weekend. The

Dozens of Palestinians have gathered near the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes to perform Eid al Adha prayers. They were surrounded by the debris and rubble of collapsed houses at the former site of the al Rahma mosque in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza to mark the start of

An eight-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was shot in the head at a waterpark in Michigan – with eight other people injured. His mother is also in a critical condition, while his four-year-old brother is in a stable condition with a leg wound, after a gunman opened fire in a Detroit

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed inside Gaza, the Israeli military has confirmed. The military personnel were killed in a blast in the southern city of Rafah on Saturday morning, according to the Israeli military. It comes amid Israel’s ongoing offensive there and its operation to rescue the remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants on

Firefighters rescued 28 people who were stuck dangling 100ft upside down on a ride at an amusement park in Oregon. One person with a pre-existing medical condition was taken to hospital as a precaution after the AtmosFEAR ride stopped, Oaks Amusement Park, in Portland, said in a statement posted on social media. However, they said