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Satellite imagery appears to show China’s new nuclear-powered submarine sinking at a shipyard while under construction, a senior US defence official has said. The sinking of China‘s first Zhou-class submarine represents a setback for Beijing as it seeks to increase the size of what is already the world’s largest navy. It comes as Beijing has

After a week of air strikes in the neighbourhood of Dahieh, the shock of an explosion is rarely followed by surprise.  When we arrived in this densely populated part of southern Beirut, the street was filled with glass and rubble and weary-looking faces. This is the fourth time in a week that this area has

The UN’s highest body has heard the direst warning yet about the escalating situation in Lebanon. Addressing an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was not mincing his words: “Madam President, excellencies. Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon. As I told the General Assembly yesterday, we should all be

The Israeli airstrikes have left people in the south of Lebanon feeling there are no safe places around here now. Dozens more were killed in another intense day of Israeli bombing including more children – with whole families missing and unaccounted for. Follow latest: Israel preparing ‘for possible ground invasion’ One Lebanese army general told

Emergency workers have been struggling to cope with the sudden spike of people fleeing their homes in the south of Lebanon as the Israeli forces continued their campaign of airstrikes across the country. The capital, Beirut, was struck for the third time in five days as the Israeli military said it had targeted and “eliminated”

Lebanon will be in a “very difficult place” if Hezbollah “gambles more” in a conflict with Israel, a Lebanese government minister has told Sky News. Israeli airstrikes since early on Monday have killed 564 people, including 50 children and 94 women, and left another 1,835 people wounded in Lebanon, its health ministry has said. Israel

Israel has vowed it will not cease its attacks on Hezbollah – and that strikes will only be accelerated. Amid fears of all-out war in the region, 558 people were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon this week. The recent escalation comes on the back of pager and radio explosions targeting Hezbollah, which have largely

At least 274 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon – including 21 children – according to the country’s health minister. Israel attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday in Lebanon‘s deadliest day since 7 October, with 39 women also reported killed and 1,024 people wounded. After Hezbollah was rocked by pager and

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has kicked off an important trip to the US this week with a visit to an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania. The site produces critically needed munitions for his country’s fight against Russia. Democratic representative Matt Cartwright, who was among those meeting Mr Zelenskyy at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, said that the Ukrainian

Hezbollah’s deputy chief signalled the group had entered a “new phase” in its battle with Israel as thousands gathered in Beirut for the funeral of a key commander killed in an airstrike on Friday. The militant group’s second in command, Naim Qassem, vowed to press on with greater intensity with rocket attacks into northern Israel

A former chief spokesperson for Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy giant, is fighting in Ukraine – against Russia – and has just ditched his Russian passport for a Ukrainian one. Ihor Volobuyev, 53, told Sky News he was wounded in action last year near the eastern city of Bakhmut but is back on the frontline

At least 44 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza in the last 24 hours.  A strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut killed at least 31 people including three children and seven women, the country’s health minister Firas Abiad said. Fifteen of the 68 wounded in the attack remain in hospital.

The Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut came as the Lebanese caretaker government was having an emergency meeting to discuss the previous two days of pager and radio explosions. It caused yet more shock in a nation which considers itself battle-hardened after years of strife, disaster and wars. But Lebanon has been truly

A Lebanese government minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes “in a blatant way and without immediate condemnation”, in an interview with Sky News.  Walid Fayad, the country’s energy minister, also said Lebanon was “losing faith” in the UN and international laws. He called this week’s pager attacks a move “from targeted terror to

Hezbollah’s leader has accused Israel of carrying out “massacres” with pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to kill “5,000 people in two minutes”. Lebanon has blamed Israel for the blasts on Tuesday and Wednesday which have killed 37 and injured thousands. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the “unprecedented” explosions “could be called a declaration

The sun is burning in the morning sky, the heat is intense, the humidity suffocating. Flies buzz around our sweating brows as we peer down a dirt road, past heavily armed soldiers and their yellow crime scene tape flickering in the breeze. It’s the latest crime scene, a double murder, two men found after dawn

The Middle East is the closest it has been to regional war in 50 years, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UK has warned.  Prince Khalid bin Bandar al Saud told Sky News’s The World with Yalda Hakim that the situation on the ground is only getting worse and it is time to put in “renewed

Blasts have been heard in Beirut a day after 12 people were killed by pager explosions across Lebanon. Reuters have cited a security source and a witness as saying communications devices used by Hezbollah have detonated in the country’s south and in the southern suburbs of the capital. Follow live: Blasts heard in Beirut At

Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside thousands of pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before the devices exploded, a Lebanese security source has told the Reuters news agency. The senior source said the militant group had ordered 5,000 beepers which several other sources said were brought into Lebanon in the spring.

It really is like something out of a Hollywood spy movie. The pagers of Hezbollah officials simultaneously exploding in a southern Beirut suburb, causing hundreds of injuries and immense embarrassment. Israel hasn’t claimed responsibility, but all fingers will point to the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency famed for inventive and audacious attacks on its enemies.

The suspect in an apparent assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump did not fire his weapon, the Secret Service has said. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, is facing federal gun charges after he was arrested on Sunday afternoon following the incident at West Palm Beach golf course in Florida, where Mr Trump was playing.

One of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew said they were “all good here” before it imploded, killing all five on board. British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood died alongside OceanGate Expeditions’ chief executive Stockton Rush and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The five of them had been communicating

Donald Trump has been the subject of an “apparent assassination attempt” at his Florida golf club. The Republican presidential nominee said he was “safe and well” after gunshots were heard in his vicinity while he was playing at his Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach just after 1.30pm local time on Sunday. An

Israel has been left on high alert after a ballistic missile fired from more than 1,000 miles away in Yemen reached the centre of the country for the first time People were seen rushing to shelters as air raid sirens were sounded in central regions of the country at around 6.30am local time on Sunday,

At least three people – including two children – have been killed after two passenger trains collided in Egypt. A further 40 people were injured, the country’s health ministry said. The wounded are being treated in hospital and “rescue operations are ongoing”, the ministry added. It happened in the city of Zagazig, the capital of

At least 14 people have been killed after Israeli airstrikes across central and southern Gaza overnight, Palestinian civil defence officials have said. One home housing 11 people, including women and children, was hit in strikes on Gaza City, while a tent housing Palestinians displaced by the war was also hit in the city of Khan

Rafah is now a wasteland. The city in Gaza has been totally flattened by months of war. The rubble in places is many metres high, the buildings that are still standing are hollow shells, their dark, empty windows like vacant souls in a horror show. Image: Sky News visited what remains of Rafah – a

Six British diplomats have been expelled from Russia after being accused of “spying and sabotage”. The country’s FSB security service said they worked in the “political department” of the British embassy in Moscow. A Whitehall source told Sky News the diplomats were kicked out in August as part of a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions. The

Three Red Cross workers have been killed after aid vehicles were “attacked” by Russia in eastern Ukraine, officials in the country have said. The staff members, who were all Ukrainian, died in the village of Viroliubivka in the frontline Donetsk region today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called their deaths a “war crime” and said Red

The last time war came to Oryol was 1941. It came under Nazi occupation, before becoming one of the first major cities to be liberated by the Soviet Red Army. More than 80 years on, fighting is not far away once again. Ukraine’s incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region is little more than 100 miles

Ohio’s governor has disputed Donald Trump’s claim that Haitian immigrants in a town are eating the pets of other residents. During Tuesday’s debate with Kamala Harris, the presidential hopeful said: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats… “They’re eating… they’re eating the pets of the people that

As the old saying goes, even the dogs in the street know he was talking nonsense. Donald Trump rolled out the long-debunked rumour that Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. The debate moderator, in serious tone, duly interjected that they’d contacted the “city manager” who had played it down. It

President Joe Biden is “not ruling out” allowing Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, the US secretary of state has told Sky News. Antony Blinken made the comment after he told a news conference in London that Iran has provided Moscow with short-range missiles and Vladimir Putin will “likely use them within weeks