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'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 […]

A Hungarian official has suggested the country's first cases of foot-and-mouth disease in more than 50 years could have come from a "biological attack".The World Organisation for Animal Health, citing Hungarian authorities, said the country reported an outbreak of the disease on a cattle farm in the northwest last month. Thousands of cattle have been slaughtered to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth, while neighbouring Austria and Slovakia have closed multiple […]

The amount of electricity needed to power the world's data centres is expected to double in the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).It will come as racks of servers hosting the latest AI models and cloud computing services use three times more electricity than the UK each year, the agency added. The rise in demand, predicted to be highly concentrated around the world's tech and population […]

Along the thin strip of beach and woodland known as the Vistula Spit which marks the northernmost demarcation between Poland and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, there is not much in the way of a border.Just some torn wire fencing and a few rotten posts which seem to stagger drunkenly into the shallows of the Baltic Sea. Beneath a sign barring entry, we find a couple of empty bottles of […]

Audio analysis of footage of an Israeli attack on an aid worker convoy last month suggests that some of the shots were fired from as little as 12 metres away.The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has admitted killing the unarmed medics, saying that the convoy was acting "suspiciously".A spokesman told journalists in a 5 April briefing that an initial investigation had found there was "no firing from close distance" during the […]

China has announced it is to impose additional tariffs on US goods.The tariffs will come into force from tomorrow, China's finance ministry said. It means tariffs of 84% will be enforced on US goods - up from the 34% China had previously planned.Tariffs latest: Trump claims world 'kissing my a**' for dealsIt signals an escalation of the global trade war and comes after the US hit Beijing with an extra […]

At least 20 people have been killed in a fire at a nursing home in northern China, a state news agency reported.The blaze broke out around 9pm on Tuesday in the city of Chengde, in Hebei province, Xinhua reported. The remaining people from the nursing home have been transferred to a nearby hospital for further treatment, Xinhua added. It did not say how many there were. Experts have been sent […]