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A British soldier based at an army barracks in Kenya has been arrested on suspicion of rape.The alleged attack happened last month after a group of soldiers visited a bar in the town of Nanyuki, close to the Batuk (British Army Training Unit Kenya) camp. An investigation is being carried out by the Defence Serious Crime Command, which probes serious crimes alleged to have been carried out by British servicemen […]

Israel's defence minister has threatened to "take whatever measures necessary" to stop an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg from reaching Gaza.The climate campaigner, 22, is one of a dozen activists aboard the Madleen, which set sail from Sicily last Sunday on a mission aiming to break Israel's sea blockade. The activists have said they plan to reach Gaza's territorial waters as early as Sunday to deliver humanitarian aid.But in a […]

A 15 year-old-boy has been arrested after a Colombian senator running to be the country's next president was shot and "critically" injured at a campaign rally in Bogota, authorities have said.Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was targeted during the campaign event in a park in the Fontibon area of the Colombian capital, according to the Attorney General's office. He suffered two gunshot wounds when armed assailants shot him from behind […]

Donald Trump has warned of "serious consequences" if Elon Musk funds the US president's political rivals - as the social media post at the centre of their public falling out was removed.Speaking on Saturday to Sky News' US partner NBC News, Mr Trump warned of repercussions if Musk funded Democrats who opposed his sweeping budget bill. "If he does, he'll have to pay the consequences for that," he said in […]

At least four people have been killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after a series of Russian attacks.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described one of the attacks as a "savage killing", saying dozens of people had been injured.It comes after Kyiv embarrassed Moscow when it launched a daring drone raid deep inside Russia last weekend, destroying dozens of bombers. Image: Firefighters work at the site of a building hit by […]

Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza on 7 October. The prime minister's office said that the body of Nattapong Pinta was returned to Israel "in a special military operation". Mr Pinta, who had a wife and son, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed in captivity near the start of the war, said the government.Thais were the largest group of foreigners […]

Sky News understands that the Trump administration approached the UK government to ask if it would host round two of the US-China trade talks. This is a useful 'diplo-win' for the UK.The first round was held in Geneva last month. News of that happening came as a surprise. The Chinese and the Americans were in the midst of a Trump-instigated trade war. President Trump was en route to Saudi Arabia […]

A man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration has been returned to the US to face criminal charges.Kilmar Abrego Garcia was charged in an indictment filed in federal court in Tennessee with conspiring to transport illegal immigrants into the US, attorney general Pam Bondi said on Friday. Court records have shown the indictment was filed on 21 May, more than two months after he was […]

Senior White House officials will meet with a Chinese delegation in London on Monday for the next round of trade talks, President Donald Trump has said.The meeting comes after a phone call between Mr Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, which the US president said was "very positive". Writing on his Truth Social platform, Mr Trump said the London meeting "should go very well" and added that US […]