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The air-launched cruise missile that struck a children's hospital in Kyiv was from Russia, Sky News can confirm.The strike on Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital was one of several attacks in the deadliest bombardment of Ukraine's capital in several months.According to the United Nations team tracking human rights violations in Ukraine, at least two people died and around 50 people were injured in the hospital strike.NATO leaders gather to discuss aid - […]

A teenager has been attacked by a shark during a lifeguard training camp in Florida.The 14-year-old boy was bitten on the leg during the incident, which happened as he was practising water entries near a lifeguard tower in the town of Ponce Inlet. His injuries were not considered life-threatening, officials said.The attack on Monday came just days after two separate bite attacks in nearby New Smyrna Beach.Read more:Hurricane rips through […]

France's left wing New Popular Front (NPF) - now the largest group in parliament - has called for a prime minister who will implement its ideas including upping the minimum wage and price controls on petrol.The leftist alliance secured the most seats in the recent French elections but fell short of the 289 needed for a majority in the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament. President Emmanuel Macron's Together […]

Just days into his premiership, Sir Keir Starmer is heading to the US for a meeting with NATO leaders. We take a look at why he is taking the trip and what might happen when he is there. Why is the prime minister going to Washington?NATO - or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - regularly holds meetings where its 32 member countries, 30 from Europe and two in North America, […]

This feels like a significant moment in the war in Ukraine, and the timing is telling, coming on the eve of the NATO summit in Washington. If Vladimir Putin wanted the West's attention, he most certainly has it now.Follow latest: Aftermath of deadly strike on children's hospitalAs ever, there are competing narratives about what happened in Kyiv.Ukraine is adamant Russia was deliberately targeting civilians, a children's hospital no less.But Moscow says […]

Controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of failing to pay tax in any country on £21m of revenue from their online businesses earned between 2014 and 2022.Devon and Cornwall Police are bringing a civil claim against the pair - and a third person referred to only as J - over unpaid tax, Westminster Magistrates' Court was told on Monday. The court was also […]

Six people have been injured on the first day of an annual bull run in Spain.This included a 54-year-old American from New York, who was one of five people hurt from what was said to be knocks. Along with that, a 37-year-old Spanish man was gored by a bull, according to the local government from Navarre. Image: A man is carried away on a stretcher after being injured. Pic: AP […]

This coming fortnight has all the ingredients to be historically consequential.We can expect big announcements on Ukraine from the NATO leaders meeting in Washington. We will discover who Donald Trump's running mate will be and we will watch President Biden fight for his political life. The fallout from President Biden's disastrous debate performance a little over a week ago continues. On the face of it, he insists he will remain […]

This is an astonishing result, perhaps the biggest surprise in the history of French elections. Nobody saw it coming - the pollsters, the public or the politicians.France will not have a far-right government, but that answer, that single fact, does not cover another crucial point. The country is still cloaked in uncertainty. An election that was supposed to deliver clarity has done exactly the opposite. What lies ahead is a […]