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On 19 December, 80-year-old Palestinian grandmother Halima Abu Leil was shot in an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid on her neighbourhood in Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank.Two days later, Halima's children told Sky News their mother was shot six times by Israeli special forces on her way to buy groceries. She died soon after.Warning this piece includes an image from CCTV of the moment Halima Abu Leil was […]

Details are starting to emerge of the victims of the Los Angeles fires - and at least two died trying to protect the homes where they raised families for decades.The number of people killed by the wildfires has increased from 11 to 13, according to officials. The Eaton fire has killed eight people and the Palisades fire has killed five.LA fires latest: New evacuation order as 13 confirmed deadHere is […]

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy has met Israel's prime minister in an effort to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza before the president-elect takes office on 20 January.Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed details of the meeting with Steve Witkoff on Saturday, adding that the head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency has been deployed to Qatar in order to "advance" talks.It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would travel to […]

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.The injured pair are now in Kyiv and communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine, the country's domestic intelligence agency, he said. Ukrainian special forces and paratroopers captured the North Koreans, Mr Zelenskyy said in a post on X."As with all prisoners of war, these two North Korean soldiers are receiving the necessary medical […]

The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a South Korean passenger jet that crashed, killing 179 people, stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, officials have said.Jeju Air 7C2216, a Boeing 737-800 jet, was flying from the Thai capital of Bangkok to Muan, South Korea, on 29 December when it crash-landed, skidding off the runway into a wall and exploding into flames.Of the 175 passengers […]

They are the displaced and there are tens of thousands of them, 600 in an evacuation centre we visited.From elderly people who fled without their medication, to pregnant mothers desperate to escape the smoke, they had nowhere else to go.Jim Mayfield, who has lived in the northern suburb of Altadena for 50 years, wept as he told me his dogs, Monkey and Coca, were all he had left.He said: "The […]

The fires that have been raging in Los Angeles County this week may be the "most destructive" in modern US history.In just three days, the blazes have covered tens of thousands of acres of land and could potentially have an economic impact of up to $150bn (£123bn), according to private forecaster Accuweather.Sky News has used a combination of open-source techniques, data analysis, satellite imagery and social media footage to analyse […]

Donald Trump has been handed a no-penalty sentence following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.The incoming US president has received an unconditional discharge - meaning he will not face jail time, probation or a fine. The sentencing in Manhattan comes days before the 78-year-old is due to be inaugurated as US president for a second time on 20 January.Appearing remotely before the judge, Trump said of his […]

World cricket bosses have no plans to ban Afghanistan's men from the Champions Trophy or to demand the Taliban allow a women's team to represent the country, Sky News has learned.With the International Cricket Council's (ICC) own policy requiring Test-playing nations to support women's cricket, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is backing calls for the sport's global governing body to "deliver on their own rules". Downing Street's intervention on […]