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The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case boasted he had abducted a young girl in Portugal, a German court has heard.  Christian B – whose surname cannot be published due to German privacy laws – is suspected by German investigators of having abducted and killed then-three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her parent’s holiday apartment in

Sanctions on Russia were introduced two years ago shortly after the start of the country’s Ukrainian invasion. The purpose? To limit the Russian war machine and starve Russian oligarchs of access to luxury items.   Our economics and data editor Ed Conway noticed that sales of British luxury vehicles to Russia had fallen away to almost nothing,

An Israeli military chief has told his troops that airstrikes in Lebanon are preparing the way for a “possible” ground assault designed to “degrade” Hezbollah, bringing the region closer to all-out war. While the Lebanese militant group, which is backed by Iran and an ally of Hamas, has been involved in a constant tit-for-tat with

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, the Ukrainian president referred back to Russia‘s 2022 attack on the nuclear facility in the city of Zaporizhzhia, which Moscow’s forces now control. Describing initial reports of Russia’s attack on that

Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users, including actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, have shared a post that supposedly revokes Meta’s right to train its artificial intelligence tool using their information.  “Goodbye Meta AI,” it says before saying the user does “not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of personal data, profile

Lebanon “is already at war”, its health minister has said, as he revealed nearly half a million people have been displaced due to Israel’s airstrikes. In an interview with Sky News’ lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim, Dr Firass Abiad said Israel was aiming to create a “state of panic and terror” among Lebanese civilians

A major search is under way for a grandmother and five-month-old baby swept away as they tried to escape floodwater in Italy. The child’s mum and dad and his grandfather were rescued from the roof of their holiday home in Pisa province, the fire service said. More than 100 people – as well as divers,

As night draws across the eastern front medical teams wait nervously behind the frontline. They know it will be a busy night – every night is busy these days as Russia intensifies its attacks in the Donbas. The chief medic, Yaroslav, takes the first call of the shift. His face is filled with concern as

Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline following a mass global outage. Major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have been grounded, while airports in Germany and Spain are also reporting issues. In the UK, Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern

The virus that causes polio has been detected in sewage samples in Gaza, according to its health ministry. It said tests had been carried out with UNICEF and that the finding “exposes thousands of residents to the risk of contracting poliomyelitis”. It warned of a potential “new health disaster” if action isn’t taken. Polio mainly