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As Ukraine says it has accepted a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, US secretary of state Marco Rubio says "the ball is now in Russia's court".Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he accepted the proposal as his country, which has been fending off Russia's full-scale invasion for the past three years, was "ready for peace". Here is what Sky News correspondents think of the latest developments in the ongoing efforts to […]

A five-year-old boy was "incinerated" when a pressurised oxygen chamber exploded at a medical facility in the US state of Michigan.Four people have been charged over the child's death at the Oxford Centre in Detroit, Michigan's attorney general has said.Thomas Cooper, from Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene, while his mother, who was standing next to the chamber, suffered injuries to her arms when it exploded on 31 January."A […]

The Dalai Lama has said his successor as spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism will be born outside China, contradicting Beijing's view and risking the anger of his country's occupiers.In a new book published on Tuesday, the 89-year-old reversed his previous position that he may be the last in the line of spiritual leaders. It's the first time the Dalai Lama, who fled the Himalayan country in 1959 after a failed […]

The controversial former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has been arrested over claims of crimes against humanity.The government said he was detained on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant when he landed in Manila on Tuesday. The case centres on thousands of killings that took place during his brutal crackdown on illegal drugs from 2011 - when he was a city mayor - to the end of his presidency […]

Donald Trump says a Palestinian student activist detained by federal immigration agents is "anti-American".Mahmoud Khalil, a postgraduate student at Columbia University's school of international and public affairs, has been a prominent figure in the university's pro-Palestinian student protest movement. A federal judge in New York City ordered for Mr Khalil not be deported on Monday while the court considers a lawsuit challenging his detention. A hearing was scheduled for Wednesday. […]

Israel is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza following Hamas' refusal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire deal.While the full extent of the effects of the power cut is not yet known, Gaza's desalination plants use it to produce drinking water for the besieged enclave's population of more than two million. It comes after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to Gaza last week. Please use […]

More than 40,000 people have been hit by a surprise strike that shut Hamburg Airport - and more than 500,000 could be disrupted today as the walkout spreads across Germany.The strike reportedly began with just half an hour notice yesterday morning, with passengers told to stay away and terminals and check-in desks eerily quiet. The airport said only 10 of more than 280 departures and arrivals went as planned on […]

In just 50 days, Donald Trump has upended our world. He has ripped up rules, attacked allies and sided with enemies.A country we thought for decades had our backs is no longer a reliable partner. We travelled thousands of miles to ask what that means for our lives and millions of others - from the sweltering backstreets of Africa to the frozen wastes of Greenland and Finland's tense border with […]

US President Donald Trump has suggested Ukraine "may not survive" the war against Russia even if American support continued.In an interview with Fox News channel's 'Sunday Morning Futures', Mr Trump was asked about his controversial decision to pause support for Kyiv as it fends off Russia's full-scale invasion. Mr Trump, who had a disastrous meeting with Mr Zelenskyy at the White House last week, was asked about a warning from […]