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Donald Trump will pull the US, the world's second-largest climate polluter, out of the most important global treaty for tackling climate change for the second time.The White House announced the move to withdraw from the Paris Agreement shortly after Mr Trump's inauguration on Monday. The decision would place the United States alongside Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries in the world outside the landmark global 2015 pact to […]

An Australian broadcaster has apologised to Novak Djokovic and Serbian tennis fans after calling the 24-time Grand Slam champion "overrated" and a "has-been".Djokovic, 37, refused to give a customary post-match interview to Channel Nine anchor Jim Courier after beating Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic at the Australian Open on Sunday. He said in a press conference his annoyance was not directed at the crowd but another Channel Nine presenter, Tony […]

Doctors in America have praised a three-year-old Gazan girl who is walking again just six months after losing both legs.Rahaf Saed was fitted with her first prosthetic legs last Tuesday in Missouri after she was severely injured in an Israeli bombing of her home in Gaza in August. She was among eight children who arrived in the US in early December after being granted US visas for specialist medical treatment.Sky […]

Donald Trump will declare an emergency at the US-Mexico border as one of a host of executive orders the incoming president is expected to sign on Monday and in the coming days.Incoming White House officials have said the first wave of executive orders is said to cover a mix of campaign trail promises, reversals of outgoing President Joe Biden's policies and restructuring of the federal government workforce. Trump inauguration latestOne […]

Donald Trump will become the 47th president of the United States today - marking an astonishing return to the White House for the businessman and former reality TV star.Today's inauguration comes after a tumultuous four years out of office that saw assassination attempts and several serious legal cases against the 78-year-old. Mr Trump will be sworn in at the US Capitol Rotunda buildings rather than outdoors due to the cold […]

The Darth Vader theme tune suddenly bleeps from the underbelly of a Ukrainian drone as a marine attaches a mortar round to it before launching the aircraft against a Russian position.The Ukrainians say their enemy fears this kind of rotary drone in particular because of the size of the bombs it can drop. Unmanned aircraft used by both sides have transformed the battlefield in the nearly three years since Russia […]

A secret 1,000ft-long tunnel between the US and Mexico will be sealed after it was discovered earlier this month. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its agents found a completed man-made tunnel after inspecting a storm drain system in Texas. According to officials, the tunnel runs between the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and the US city of El Paso - which are separated by the Rio Grande and […]

Two 18-year-old women are in intensive care after a ski lift collapsed in Spain, according to local media.The incident on Saturday took place on a chair lift at the Astún ski resort, which is on the Spanish border with France, in the Pyrenees mountain range. The regional government said at least 30 people were injured, nine of them very seriously - though the ski resort later said around 15 people […]

Emily Damari, a 28-year-old British-Israeli woman, is among the first three hostages Hamas plans to release today as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.She was abducted during the 7 October Hamas attack when she was "shot in the hand, injured by shrapnel in her leg, blindfolded, bundled into the back of her own car, and driven back to Gaza", according to her mother. The other two hostages are Romi Gonen, […]