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Police in Georgia’s capital have used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against crowds outside the country’s parliament protesting against a bill the opposition says aims to crack down on press freedoms. The legislation being debated by parliamentarians will require media and non-commercial organisations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive

Rachel Goldberg-Polin ran home when her husband, John, called last week. He had just been told by the FBI and Israeli intelligence that Hamas was about to publish a video of their son Hersh, from captivity in Gaza. It was the first proof he was alive since he was taken hostage at the Nova music

An aid group is to resume its work in Gaza four weeks after suspending operations following the killing of seven workers. World Central Kitchen (WCK) says it will resume operations in the besieged strip on Monday, delivering food to “address widespread hunger”, including in the north. It comes following the killing of the WCK workers

A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany. The two Ukrainians were killed at a shopping centre in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. They were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Shortly after the killings on

Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK. More than 80% of recent arrivals in the republic came via the land border with Northern Ireland, Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week. Rishi Sunak told Sky News it showed the UK’s Rwanda scheme was

Hamas has released a new video that appears to show two hostages who have been held in Gaza since the 7 October assault on southern Israel. The two men, Keith Siegel, 64, and Omri Miran, 47, speak in the video against an empty background, sending their love to relatives and asking to be released. The

A well-known Iraqi social media influencer has reportedly been shot dead in her car by a gunman on a motorbike. Om Fahad, whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi, was killed outside her home in Baghdad’s Zayouna district on Friday, according to the AFP news agency, citing security officials. It appears the unidentified attacker pretended to

In the nation of ‘Cade Mile Failte’ (a hundred thousand welcomes), the residents of Coolock want to shut the door. They’ve set up an anti-immigrant camp in the north Dublin suburb, outside a disused factory earmarked to house asylum seekers. With green, white and orange, they’re staking claim to this ground, their protest tents bedecked

Pepper spray flying, protestors shoved to the ground, flames leaping in the background as chants of “shame on you” filled the night air. The scenes in Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow won’t have come as much of a surprise to many. It’s just the latest manifestation of a growing frustration with Ireland’s immigration policies. The proposed

The migrant dinghy in which five people died was chaotic, overloaded and packed with people carrying weapons and fighting, according to one of the passengers who was on board, speaking exclusively to Sky News. Heivin, 18, confirmed the boat was stormed by a rival group of migrants, armed with sticks and knives, as it was

Chaos engulfed campuses across the United States as pro-Palestinian student protests spread to universities across the length and breadth of this country.  A movement which started at Columbia University on the east coast has now spread to the north, south and west. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at least 93 people

The parents of an Israeli hostage have told him “we love you, stay strong, survive” after he appeared with part of his arm missing in a video released by Hamas. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped at the Nova musical festival when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October. The video shows him with his lower left arm