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A slew of Australian towns have been blanketed with their thickest layer of snow in decades, as wild weather swept across the east of the country.As much as 40cm (16 inches) of snow fell in northern parts of New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia's weather bureau, said. She said parts of neighbouring state Queensland also saw snow for the first […]

We've seen this many times before. Highly anticipated talks and meetings with America, Israel's closest ally and the one country with the power to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change course, then nothing changes. We need to give Steve Witkoff time to report his assessments back to the White House before we can give a complete verdict on this visit but what we've seen and heard so far […]

Just 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday - despite the humanitarian situation in the enclave worsening, Palestinian officials have warned.According to the Gazan government's media office, most of the humanitarian supplies were looted and stolen - "as a result of the state of security chaos that the Israeli occupation systematically and deliberately perpetuates". Officials say at least 600 truckloads of aid are required on a daily basis, adding: "The […]

India has indicated it will defy threats made by US President Donald Trump and continue buying Russian oil.The world's third-largest crude importer - after China and the US - cashed in on cheap Russian oil when its price plummeted after Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Historically, it had bought most of its crude from countries in the Middle East.But this changed after the invasion in February 2022, when western […]

Two videos of an emaciated Israeli hostage, Evyatar David, have been released by Hamas, after US special envoy Steve Witkoff this week met with the families of the hostages.The now 24-year-old looks skeletal, with his shoulder blades protruding from his back, and says he has not eaten for three days. The distressing videos show him apparently digging his own grave.He worked in a restaurant, according to a video posted by […]

SpaceX has successfully delivered a new team of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a short 15-hour trip.The four US, Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in their SpaceX capsule after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre. Their arrival brought the current number of people at the station to 11. While a 15-hour trip is considered speedy by US standards, the Russians hold the record for the fastest […]

A British doctor who has just returned from Gaza has described how one of her patients, a 21-year-old woman who was six months pregnant, lost her baby after she was "blown up in her tent"."Her husband was killed, she lost her eye, she had an open fracture, and both her legs were completely destroyed from the bomb blast," Nada Al Hadithy told Sky News presenter Matt Barbet."This woman is completely […]

The visit to Gaza by Trump's envoy was an important gesture to show America cared about the humanitarian situation there amid mounting pressure at home and abroad.It was also "to learn the truth", according to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who accompanied Mr Witkoff to an aid site. They gave themselves around five hours to do this. The American delegation will report their assessments back to Washington and "help craft a […]

Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the "appropriate regions" in a row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.It comes after Mr Medvedev, who is now deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, told the US president on Thursday to remember Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort. On Friday, Mr Trump wrote on social media: "Based on the highly provocative statements of […]