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A fire that broke out at a hotel in Galway which was due to be used to house asylum seekers is being treated as a crime by police. Irish police are investigating after a blaze broke out at Ross Lake House Hotel in Rosscahill, Co Galway, at around 11.35pm on Saturday. No one was inside

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

Two people have been killed and a third injured in a shooting in a southern Swiss town, police have said. Police in the Valais canton said the suspect fired several shots in two different locations in Sion, a town of about 35,000 people not far from the Italian and French borders. The force said they

The gulf between Israel and the US on one hand, and Arab states and much of the rest of the world on the other, couldn’t really be greater. With the US diplomatic backing, and with more of its ammunition supplies being shipped to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that to achieve

“Every day there is like hell. Abnormal fear, zero sleep.” Hostages released by Hamas have described weeks of fear and hunger inside the warren of tunnels beneath Gaza, and called on the world not to forget about those still in captivity. Their comments were broadcast in pre-recorded videos played at a rally in Tel Aviv

From Gaza to the West Bank and far beyond, there is a collective anger at the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.  And the UK’s abstention is seen as tacit support for the continuing Israeli campaign against Hamas, even as aid agencies are lining up to tell

Despite overwhelming military superiority, Israel is struggling to develop an effective strategy to tackle the tunnel network under Gaza. This “underworld” has provided Hamas with a degree of sanctuary beyond the gaze of satellites, drones and military forces. How will Israel defeat Hamas without destroying the tunnel network? Please use Chrome browser for a more

Footage has emerged appearing to show the Israeli military detaining dozens of Palestinian men in northern Gaza – with some stripped to their underwear. The video, widely shared on social media, shows those held lined up in rows. Some appear to have their hands tied behind their backs. A number of Israeli commentators originally incorrectly

Rami Shmuel went from producing a multi-day rave to searching through the bodies of partygoers who died at Nova festival. What happened there on 7 October is now recorded as the site of the country’s worst terror attack. Israeli police say more than 360 mostly young men and women were murdered at the rave by

A British-built ‘flying thermometer’ has taken images of the sun-baked venue of the Dubai climate summit to highlight how rising global temperatures will challenge urban areas. HOTSAT-1 was launched by SpaceX over the summer. Unlike satellites that monitor the Earth with cameras that ‘see’ visible light, like our eyes, it monitors infrared radiation to register

In Nir Oz, a kibbutz on the Gaza border, they are still sifting through the ashes to find body parts of people killed in the Hamas attack on 7 October. We watched Israeli soldiers in their green military fatigues sitting opposite each other on plastic chairs, eyes down, expressionless faces and hands methodically searching for

Israel said its troops have entered Gaza’s second-largest city, while intensive bombardment has sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians. Here, Sky News’ chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay looks at the effects of a bloody new phase of the war. It’s hard to believe but it’s actually getting worse

Rescuers racing to find hikers missing after a deadly volcano eruption in Indonesia have found more bodies, raising the number of confirmed and presumed dead to 23. More than 50 climbers were rescued after Sunday’s eruption before search operations were temporarily halted on Monday as Mount Marapi started spewing smoke and ash again. About 75

Binyamin Needham, a 19-year-old British national, has been killed in Gaza while fighting for the IDF, Sky News understands. Mr Needham, who had dual nationality, moved to Israel with his family 10 years ago, and is understood to be the second British national after Nathanel Young to have been killed whilst serving in the IDF

Six teenagers have been found guilty in connection with the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. Mr Paty was murdered in an Islamist terror attack on 16 October 2020 near his school in Paris. Police shot dead 18-year-old Abdullah Anzorov soon after the attack. Teacher Mr Paty, 47, had shown pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad

The Pentagon has received reports of attacks on an American warship and “multiple” other ships in the Red Sea. The Pentagon said reports related to its navy destroyer, the USS Carney, as well as commercial vessels. It potentially marks a major escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Middle East linked to the

A video taken in an abandoned Gaza hospital appears to show the decomposing bodies of babies who were left behind during evacuations. The paediatric intensive care unit at al Nasr children’s hospital was evacuated around 10 November as the Israeli military continued its ground invasion into northern Gaza and called for people to leave the

Israel’s determination to completely dismantle Hamas means that takeover of the south is an absolute military necessity. The southern campaign has already started, with air raids in and around the city of Khan Younis fully underway. The problem is that, to all intents and purposes, most of the surviving Gazan population is now crowded into

The UK will conduct surveillance flights over Israel and Gaza as part of hostage rescue efforts. The Ministry of Defence said the surveillance aircraft “will be unarmed, do not have a combat role, and will be tasked solely to locate hostages”. “Only information relating to hostage rescue will be passed to the relevant authorities responsible for

The nation hosting the COP28 climate summit has had its climate plan downgraded to the lowest category. The United Arab Emirates‘ climate plan is now rated “critically insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of climate analysts and thinktanks. The group assesses whether countries’ plans – known as “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) – are

Plumes of smoke rise once again into the clear skies over Gaza.   Artillery boomed and jets screamed through the skies above us as the skyline to the north of the strip filled with smoke as buildings and Hamas targets were pounded by the Israeli military. Loudspeakers blared out warnings of incoming Hamas rockets. Follow

Within half an hour of the latest truce ending on Friday, Israeli fighter jets were bombing Gaza, and Hamas was firing salvos of rockets into Israel. Although the Israel Defence Forces had been preparing for a resumption of their ground offensive if further truces could not be agreed, both sides are motivated to progress the

Israel’s military has resumed combat in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the seven-day truce. A spokesperson for Israel Defence Forces said: “Hamas violated the operational pause and in addition fired toward Israeli territory.” The military said its fighter jets are currently striking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said multiple