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Electronics such as smartphones and laptops will be excluded from reciprocal tariffs, the Trump administration has said.US Customs and Border Protection listed 20 product categories in a notice to shippers, including the very broad 8471 code for all computers, laptops, disc drives and automatic data processing. It added that semiconductor devices and equipment, memory chips and flat panel displays would also be exempt.The move could help keep prices down for […]

Iran says "indirect talks" over the country's rapidly advancing nuclear programme are under way with US officials.The discussions on Saturday were taking place in Muscat, Oman, with the host nation's officials mediating between representatives of Iran and the US, who were seated in separate rooms, according to Esmail Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry. He also told Iran's state TV he didn't expect "this round of talks to be […]

Police in Greece are investigating after a bomb exploded outside the offices of the country's main railway company.There were no reports of injuries after the blast next to Hellenic Train's offices in central Athens on Friday evening. An anonymous phone warning was reportedly made to a newspaper and a news website, saying a bomb had been left outside the railway company offices and would go off within about 40 minutes.Police […]

It's been more than 60 years since a woman travelled into space without a man. And now six of them are blasting off from Earth.Popstar Katy Perry, author Lauren Sanchez, journalist and TV presenter Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn are due to launch in Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket on Sunday. It will be the latest flight of the […]

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has met Vladimir Putin for talks in Russia - as the US president called on Moscow to "get moving" with ending the war in Ukraine.Mr Witkoff, who has been pressing the Kremlin to accept a truce, visited Mr Putin in St Petersburg after earlier meeting the Russian leader's international co-operation envoy Kirill Dmitriev. Mr Putin was shown on state TV greeting Mr Witkoff at […]

The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired for criticising Washington's agenda for the Arctic island.Colonel Susan Meyers distanced herself from remarks made by vice president JD Vance when he visited the Pituffik base on 28 March. Ms Meyers, commander of the 821st Space Base Group, emailed all base personnel on 31 March, days after Mr Vance's visit, Military.com said. Image: Colonel Susan Meyers (L) with […]

'Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort has told Sky News there's "no way" Donald Trump is guilty of insider trading or market manipulation.Opponents say the president has questions to answer after he said it was a "great time to buy" shares - four hours before the stock market surged on Wednesday when he paused tariffs. Mr Belfort told Gillian Joseph the fact Mr Trump made the statement on social media […]

A company started by "two blokes in a Cardiff garage" is about to launch a game-changing space factory that could start a new industrial revolution.Space Forge will ship its prototype manufacturing satellite in the coming weeks from an industrial park in the city to the US, where it will be sent into orbit on a SpaceX rocket. Sky News was given exclusive access to the company's dust-free 'clean room' to […]

The latest US-Russia prisoner swap is a further sign of the thawing relations between Moscow and Washington, but I think it's also an indication of how slow things are moving.Rewind two months to 11 February and you might remember there was another prisoner swap. Out of the blue, 63-year-old American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who had been imprisoned in Russia on drug smuggling charges, was suddenly released and on his way […]