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A popular Indian actor has been arrested after a woman died in a crush at the premiere of his latest movie Pushpa 2: The Rule.Allu Arjun, a top star in the Telugu film industry, also known as "Tollywood", was making an appearance at the event in Hyderabad on 4 December when the incident happened. As fans clamoured to meet the actor, a 39-year-old woman died and her nine-year-old son was […]

An international charity which has rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea says it will stop using its rescue boat because new Italian laws "have made it impossible to continue".Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - also known as Doctors Without Borders - has been using the Geo Barents vessel since June 2021 on a succession of operations. Last year, Sky News was on board when its crew rescued more than […]

A 28-year-old woman has been found not guilty of murdering her wealthy 77-year-old husband who styled himself as a Japanese Don Juan.Saki Sudo was charged after Kosuke Nozaki was found dead at his home in Tanabe City from a drug overdose in May 2018.The pair had wed just three months earlier, and she received a monthly allowance of one million yen (£5,170) from him, the Kyodo news agency reported.Prosecutors accused […]

Russia has established "direct contact" with Syria's Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) rebel group, according to state media outlet Interfax.It reported that deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov told journalists that Russia was aiming to maintain its military bases inside Syria. Mr Bogdanov said contact with HTS was "proceeding in constructive fashion" and that Moscow hoped the group would fulfil its pledges to maintain order and ensure the safety of diplomats […]

The head of NATO has warned the alliance is not ready for the threats it will face from Russia in the coming years and that it is time to shift to a wartime mindset.Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the organisation, said NATO members had spent more than 3% of GDP on defence during the Cold War and argued future spending would have to be much higher than the alliance's […]

As rebels set about freeing those imprisoned by the reposed Assad regime, more missing people are being found.Earlier on Wednesday, a man who said he was locked up after crossing into Syria by foot seven months ago was found safe. There were initial suspicions it could have been missing US journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, but he and the reporter's family have confirmed otherwise.Syria latest […]

Two luxury real estate agent brothers have been charged with drugging and violently raping dozens of women.Oren and Tal Alexander, as well as their brother Alon, are accused by New York federal prosecutors of sex trafficking and using their position to take advantage of women from at least 2010 to 2021. Charges have also been filed in Florida, where the men live. Oren, 37, and Tal, 38, are known for […]

Ireland is to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to broaden its definition of genocide - claiming Israel has engaged in the "collective punishment" of people in Gaza.An intervention will be made later this month, deputy prime minister Micheal Martin said, and will be linked to a case South Africa has brought under the United Nations' Genocide Convention. Mr Martin said the Irish government is "concerned" that a "narrow […]

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime.Sky News lead world presenter Yalda Hakim went inside the infamous facility and walked the halls once stalked by Bashar al Assad's enforcers. Human rights groups have reported on the site north of Damascus for years, warning of what has been going on.Follow live: Syria […]