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Four members of a UK family have died in a car crash while they were on holiday in Portugal.Domingos Serrano, 55, Maria Serrano, 51, and their twin sons Domingos and Afonso, both 20, died when the car they were travelling in collided with another vehicle in Castro Verde, southern Portugal, according to the Municipal Council for Mourao. Two others died in the crash - the 19-year-old girlfriend of one of […]

Liverpool forward Mo Salah has criticised UEFA for not revealing how a footballer known as "Palestinian Pele" died as it paid tribute to him in a social media post.The Palestine Football Association said on Wednesday that Suleiman al Obeid, 41, was killed by an "Israeli airstrike targeting civilians" while he waited for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. In a brief post on the social media platform […]

As if life in Gaza wasn't hard enough, there is now a heatwave - compounding the problems of minimal water, food and the basics you need to keep a family alive.To keep your children halfway clean, when you've been displaced over and over again, forced to live under tarpaulin rammed up against your neighbours. "We suffer greatly, especially because we live in tents," says Riham Akel, who was displaced from […]

For Ukraine - its exhausted, brave soldiers, its thousands of bereaved families mourning their dead, and its beleaguered president - it is exactly what they feared it would be. They fear the compromise they will be forced to make will be messy, costly, unfair and ultimately beneficial to the invading tyrant who brought death and destruction to their sovereign land. Six weeks ago, I spoke to President Zelenskyy in London.War latest: […]

The location of Alaska is unexpected.Although close to Russia geographically - less than three miles away at the narrowest point - it's a very long way from neutral ground. The expectation was they would meet somewhere in the middle. Saudi Arabia perhaps, or the United Arab Emirates. But no, Vladimir Putin will be travelling to Donald Trump's backyard.Follow latest: Zelenskyy says Ukraine will not give up landIt'll be the first […]

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet where their countries brush shoulders.But why Alaska and why now? A US-Russia summit in Alaska is geography as metaphor and message.Alaska physically bridges both countries across the polar expanse.Follow latest: Ukraine war live updates Datawrapper This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can […]

Five days before he was killed by a falling aid package, father-of-two Uday al Qaraan called on world leaders to open Gaza's borders to food - and criticised the use of airdrops."This isn't aid delivery," said the 32-year-old medic as a crowd of children rummaged through the remains of an airdrop behind him. "This is humiliation." Using footage from social media, satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony and flight tracking data, Sky […]

A young British girl has been repatriated from a detention camp housing alleged Islamic State family members in northwest Syria, authorities in the region have told Sky News.The girl, who is thought to be around nine years old, was found at the Al Hol camp in northeast Syria, which houses the wives and children of IS fighters and supporters of the terror group. She was being raised by a woman […]

The US has doubled its award for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50m (£37.2m) as it accuses him of working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine.At the time Maduro was indicted in Manhattan federal court in 2020 on federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine, the US offered a $15m reward for his arrest. Under US President Donald Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, […]