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Several people have been killed and dozens have been injured during a shooting in central Prague, according to Czech police. “The entire building is currently being evacuated and there are several dead and dozens of injured,” police said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. “The shooter has been eliminated.” The incident took place in

A Sky News team witnessed a dead child being pulled from the rubble in Gaza and desperate attempts to dig out survivors following an Israeli drone strike. The attack happened during filming on Wednesday at a hospital in Rafah, near the Egyptian border. A father took cover behind a car with his terrified children while

The Irish government is to bring a legal case against the UK under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The inter-state case is over the UK’s decision to bring in the Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Act, deputy premier Micheal Martin has confirmed. The act became UK law in September 2023. It looks to end

The eruption in Iceland may have weakened but it’s far from over. Scientists are using GPS signals from space to precisely measure the height of the ground around the volcanic site. It had risen by 35cm in some areas, pushed up by the magma rising from beneath. Since the eruption it’s slumped back down by

The molten rock that has been building up beneath southwest Iceland has erupted in spectacular fountains of lava. A gash two miles long has opened up on the Reykjanes peninsula, spewing between 100 and 200 cubic metres of lava every second. That’s far more than in other recent eruptions in the area. Incredible footage shows

A volcano has erupted in Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country’s Meteorological Office said. An evacuation had already taken place in recent days, moving nearly 4,000 people out of the fishing town of Grindavik in the country’s southwest. The nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa had also been closed as a precaution. Iceland’s

BP has announced it is pausing shipments of oil through the Red Sea after recent attacks on vessels by Houthi rebels. The oil giant said it made the decision because of the “deteriorating security situation” – but added that the move was temporary. “The safety and security of our people and those working on our

Israeli forces battling Hamas claim to have uncovered the largest Hamas tunnel found in Gaza, designed to carry carloads of Hamas fighters up to the border with Israel. Neutralising the hundreds of kilometres of underground tunnels and bunkers in Gaza is among the aims of the Israeli offensive, launched after Hamas fighters went on a killing and

Pavlos Pavlidis leans back in the chair of his office, surveys several cardboard boxes on his desk and takes a deep draw of one of many cigarettes. Pavlidis is a coroner at the hospital in Alexandroupolis, in northern Greece. Since he started working here in 2000, he’s been carrying out post-mortems on migrants who’ve died

Sixty-one people, including women and children, have drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, a UN agency has said. The boat originally contained 86 people and left the Libyan shores from Zwara, according to the International Organization for Migration. Earlier, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said illegal migration threatens to “overwhelm” Europe and hinted a change

Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by the IDF had been holding a white flag, an Israeli military official has said. The official said an initial inquiry into the incident has found the hostages were fired upon against Israel’s rules of engagement. The IDF said yesterday that the victims – all Israeli men in their 20s

The Israeli military has mistakenly killed three hostages held in Gaza after wrongly identifying them as a threat. The Israeli Defence Forces said the victims, all three Israeli men in their 20s, were killed during combat with Hamas militants. The victims were identified as Samer Talalka, 22, Yotam Haim, 28, and Alon Shamriz, 26. Israeli

One person has died and another is in a critical condition in hospital after a boat carrying migrants got into trouble in the Channel. They were among at least 66 people on the inflatable dinghy which got into difficulty about 5 miles (8km) off the French coast, according to the coastguard. The survivors have been

It had all the makings of one of those nightmare EU summits. A crucially important meeting that would drag on rancorously late beyond the end of the week. The villain of the piece, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban – whose critics call him Putin’s puppet – had arrived looking up for a fight. There was

Israel’s ambassador to the UK has told Sky News her country would not accept a two-state solution when the war in Gaza ends. When pressed on the question of Palestinians having their own state, Tzipi Hotovely told Mark Austin: “Absolutely no.” Asked how there can be peace without a Palestinian state, she added: “Israel knows

The US Navy has shot down a suspected Houthi drone which was headed in the direction of a warship after being launched from Yemen, according to a defence official. The USS Mason destroyer took out the targetted drone, according to the US military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Houthi rebels had attacked a

The draft resolution from COP28 does not contain the words “phase out” with regard to fossil fuels. The UN’s climate body published the proposed text of the deal early on Wednesday morning after negotiations massively overran in Dubai. Instead of the phrase “phase out” the proposal discussed “transitioning away” from fossil fuels, beginning this decade.

The president of a top Turkish football club has resigned after punching a referee to the ground at the end of a match. Faruk Koca, who has also been arrested, said he was “embarrassed” and “saddened” by the incident. The MKE Ankaragucu president hit the referee Halil Umut Meler at the end of the game

Professional football in Turkey has been suspended after a top referee was punched to the ground by a club president at the end of a match in the country’s highest league. Halil Umut Meler was attacked at the final whistle and hit in the face by MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca, sparking a melee of

UN envoys from the security council have made a whirlwind trip to Egypt’s Rafah Crossing into Gaza in what is being seen as a urgent attempt to try to halt the war. The trip went ahead under heavy security as there were further signs of a deterioration in law and order – with starving Gazans