A CIA turncoat who orchestrated one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in American history by selling secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia has died in prison. Aldrich Ames admitted receiving $2.5m (£1.85m) from Moscow after betraying Western intelligence assets from 1985 until his arrest in 1994. The identities of 10 Russian officials and
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Donald Trump has announced Venezuela’s interim government will be “turning over” between 30 and 50 million barrels of “high quality” oil to the US. The oil – worth upwards of $2bn (£1.48bn) – will be taken by storage ships and brought directly to US unloading docks, the president said on Truth Social. It will be
Finnish police have seized a cargo vessel suspected of damaging an undersea cable. The Fitburg had departed from Russia and was en route to Israel when Finnish authorities detained the ship. It is suspected of causing damage to a telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia’s capital Tallinn belonging to Finnish telecoms group Elisa. “Finnish
Iranian protesters attempted to storm a local government building on Wednesday, state media reported, as demonstrations over the cost of living reached their fourth day. In an unusual response to unrest, the Iranian government on Tuesday offered to set up a dialogue with protest leaders. The first major protests since before June – when US
“The air is absolutely poison, in the last two years we’ve not had even one single good a day in spite of the monsoon rain,” says Bhavreen Kandhari, an activist spearheading a public movement on clean air. Hundreds have converged to raise their voice against air pollution at Jantar Matar, a stone’s throw away from
Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital days after a car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends. The British-Nigerian boxing star is now recovering at his home in the country, according to a statement from the regional governments of Lagos and Ogun states. Joshua was travelling in the back of a
All the world’s countries have now welcomed in 2026. Here’s what it looked like across the globe. Oceania First to ring in the New Year were Pacific islands, including Samoa and Kiribati, followed by New Zealand, Australia and parts of Asia. Image: Auckland fireworks Victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack were remembered with a
Flammable sound-proofing material is likely to blame for the rapid spread of the deadly fire at a Swiss ski resort, Sky News has been told. The disaster occurred during the early hours of Thursday at Le Constellation, a bar in the upmarket Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana. At least 40 people died in the fire
New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani has vowed to run the city “expansively and audaciously” after his historic inauguration. The Democratic Socialist became the Big Apple’s first Muslim mayor after a midnight oath-taking at the Old City Hall subway stop, which is only accessible a few times a year via guided tours. He is also
The largest protests in Iran in three years reached a deadly climax overnight into Thursday, with several people killed, Iranian media and a rights group have reported. The bloody violence marks a significant escalation of the protests over Iran’s ailing economy, after authorities on Tuesday unusually offered to set up a “dialogue mechanism”. A “source
About 40 people were killed and 115 injured in a blaze in at a New Year’s Eve Party at an upmarket Swiss ski resort, with the disaster likened to scenes from a horror film. This article contains details some readers may find distressing. Most of the victims of the fire in Crans-Montana are thought to
Some thinkers explain the world. Others expose the wiring behind it. Howard Bloom belongs firmly in the second camp. For decades, Bloom has been obsessed with one central question: why do humans behave the way they do—collectively, not individually? His work cuts across science, culture, politics, creativity, and history, not to decorate conversations, but to dismantle illusions. Heroes don’t
“Evil monster, murderer, Nazi,” – that’s how Henrik Lenkeit describes his grandfather. It sounds extreme until you discover that the man he’s referring to was the ruthless Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler. Hitler’s right-hand man, Himmler was a feared and fanatical man known for his leading role in the Final Solution and Holocaust. So, imagine how
A man who witnessed a bar fire in Switzerland has told Sky News he saw patrons walking over people as they tried to escape the packed venue. This article contains details some readers may find distressing Samuel Rapp, who was at a restaurant near Le Constellation bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana when
Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of armed combat along their border over competing claims to territory. It took effect at noon local time. As well as an end to the fighting, the agreement also calls for no further military movements by either side, and no violations of either side’s
Fifteen people have been injured after a knife and chemical attack at a tyre factory in Japan. Eight people were taken to hospital after they were stabbed by a man with a knife at a factory of the tyre maker Yokohama Rubber Co. in the city of Mishima, in the Shizuoka prefecture, west of Tokyo,
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