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Donald Trump has met Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the Pope's funeral, Vatican sources have told Sky News.The US and Ukrainian presidents had a "very productive discussion", according to a White House Official, and have also agreed to hold further talks after the service. They are among world leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, who are attending the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome.Follow live updates: 200,000 mourn inside […]

Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has died aged 41.In a statement to Sky's US partner network NBC News on Friday, her family said she took her own life in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several years."It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," her family said."She lost her life to […]

As the line of mourners moves slowly along behind him, Ciriaco Sarnelli peers at me from beneath the immaculate brim of his cap.The military police chief looks, by any standards, magnificent - shoulders back and proudly wearing the black uniform of the Carabinieri. "Our history goes back more than 200 years," he says. "We remember our past, and our place. The only people with black uniforms are the priests, the […]

A Russian general has been killed by a car bomb near Moscow, the country's top criminal investigation agency says.The death of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik is the second such fatal attack on a top Russian military officer in four months. The investigative committee said he was killed by an explosive device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside the capital. Image: Yaroslav Moskalik. Pic: Russian Ministry of Defence He […]

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said the US and Russia are moving in the "right direction" to end the war in Ukraine."We are ready to reach a deal, but there are still some specific points - elements of this deal which need to be fine-tuned," Mr Lavrov told CBS News' Face The Nation show, which will air on Sunday. "We continue our contacts with the American side on the […]

First he took the US on a collision course with China. Then he came for the rest of the world.He crashed into the financial markets and now Donald Trump has been gently tapping on the brakes all week. The world's economic policymakers have been on quite the journey over the past few months.Many of them will have felt a little queasy as they got off the plane in Washington DC […]

Pakistan's defence minister has told Sky News that a row over a mass shooting in Kashmir could lead to an "all-out war" between his country and India.Speaking to The World with Yalda Hakim, Khawaja Asif said the world should be "worried" about the prospect of a full-scale conflict involving the two nations, which both have nuclear weapons. But he also said he hoped the dispute could be resolved via negotiations.It […]

A student has been killed and three others injured in a stabbing at a French private school.A 15-year-old boy, said to be a fellow pupil, was arrested in connection with the attack after being overpowered by teachers at the scene before officers arrived, police said. The suspect reportedly entered the grounds of Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides, in Nantes, western France, armed with at least one knife at around 12.30pm local time (11.30am UK […]

India has closed a border crossing, suspended a water-sharing treaty and downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan, a day after a militant attack in Kashmir that left at least 26 people dead and 17 others wounded.India blames its neighbour for Tuesday's assault in Pahalgam, a popular tourist destination in the Indian-held part of the territory, which both nuclear-armed nations claim as their own.Pakistan, which said it was "concerned at the loss […]