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Britons have been urged to leave Lebanon and avoid travel to the country as tensions soar in the Middle East.Foreign Secretary David Lammy said events were "fast moving" and Foreign Office staff were working "round the clock" to help ensure the safety of UK citizens.It came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed heavy retaliation would follow a strike in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights which killed 12 children. Image: Druze […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is suffering from health problems caused by obesity, including high blood pressure and diabetes, South Korea's spy agency has said.The National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea's main spy agency, told politicians in Seoul on Monday that Kim's aides are trying to get new medicines from abroad to help the North's leader. Kim, 40, is known to be a heavy drinker and smoker and comes […]

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has denied launching a rocket which killed 12 children and teenagers at a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday.Analysis by Sky News' Data and Forensics Unit, however, shows the group was targeting a military base 2.4km (1.5 miles) from the site of the attack.Based on the launch site location provided by the Israeli military, the rocket would have travelled around 10.2km (6.3 miles) […]

Hundreds of ardent Hezbollah supporters gathered in Beirut late Sunday afternoon amid promises of revenge attacks from a range of Israeli politicians, who blame the Lebanese group for the massacre of young football players in the Golan."We don't fear death," one Hezbollah loyalist told us. "We don't care even if we all die. We don't care."Far from cowing Hezbollah, the threats and accusations from their Israeli neighbours seem to have […]

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term, the country's electoral authority has said - despite several exit polls which had pointed to an opposition win.The head of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, said Mr Maduro had secured 51% of the vote, beating his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez, who won 44%. He said around 80% of ballot boxes have been counted, adding that results had been delayed because of […]

French police have opened an investigation into death threats received by three Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.The Paris prosecutors' office said anti-cybercrime officers are also probing the release of competitors' personal data on social networks and trying to have it removed. Meanwhile, Olympics organisers said they have asked French authorities to investigate anti-Semitic gestures during Israel's men's football match against Paraguay on Saturday.Follow live updates: Murray postpones comeback The […]

Olympics chiefs have undercut their advocacy of full gender equality – telling Sky News it would be too costly to have as many women's teams as men's sides participating in football.The gender gap has existed since women's football was introduced into the Olympics in 1996 while men's teams first participated at the Games in 1900. Sky News understands FIFA has been pushing to add four more women's national sides to […]

One person has been found dead near Calais after a small boat attempted to cross the Channel from France to the UK overnight, according to French authorities. Another 34 people were rescued and taken to emergency services after a vessel got into trouble. According to the French coastguard, there are several boats still at sea.Small boat crossings are at a record high for this time of year, and there have […]

The Israeli military says it has struck Hezbollah targets "deep inside" Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon."Overnight, the IAF struck a series of Hezbollah terror targets both deep inside Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon, including weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Chabriha, Borj El Chmali, and Beqaa, Kfarkela, Rab El Thalathine, Khiam, and Tayr Harfa," the military said. It follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warning […]