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Ninety minutes is a long watch in politics – ask a Democrat, any Democrat. As the mist was hanging heavy over Atlanta the morning after the presidential debate, for them the metaphors were writing themselves. Hot takes from the night before gave way to clear-eyed, cold assessment that chilled the Democratic Party. Latest: Reaction to

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have held the first presidential debate, where the president struggled to speak and the Republican was dogged by his criminal trials. Held in Atlanta, Georgia, the CNN-hosted debate marked a rematch four years in the making. With one candidate’s microphone turned off while the other was speaking, Trump and Biden

Five people have been killed after a train and a bus collided in Slovakia. A further five were injured in the southern town of Nove Zamky, 68 miles east of the capital, Bratislava, emergency services said on Facebook. The train’s engine was on fire, video footage showed, while the bus was badly damaged, railway officials

At least one person has been killed and 20 others injured after a cable car crashed in Colombia. Officials said the cable car in Medellin – which was part of the city’s public transport system – failed and plunged into a pavement next to a station platform. There were 10 people in the car when

Bolivian armed forces have taken over the capital’s central square as an armoured vehicle rammed through the entrance of the presidential palace as the president said the country is facing a coup attempt. The country’s president, Luis Arce, warned an “irregular” deployment of troops had taken place and called for “democracy to be respected” on

Newly released footage shows the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater continues by both land and air. The search for the 19-year-old from Lancashire, who is missing in Tenerife, has now entered its tenth day. He has been missing since Monday 17 June. The friends he was holidaying with last heard from him at

South Korea has accused North Korea of firing a suspected ballistic missile towards the North’s east coast. South Korea‘s joint chief of staffs said the launch was made on Wednesday morning, but did not give any further details. Japan’s defence ministry also said North Korea had launched a suspected ballistic missile. The missile reportedly landed

More than a week on from Jay Slater’s disappearance, his dad Warren is still doing everything he can in the effort to help find his son. He is holding on to hope, even as the situation becomes increasingly desperate. This morning in the town of Santiago del Teide on the outskirts of the national park

At least eight people are dead after a fire in an office building in the city of Fryazino outside Moscow on Monday, according to Russian emergency services. Two people jumped to their death from the top floors of the burning eight-storey former Russian electronics research institute on Monday and at least six others died in

At least nine people have been killed and 25 were injured after gunmen opened fire in a series of shootings in Russia’s Dagestan region. The attacks targeted a synagogue and an Orthodox church in Derbent as well as a traffic police post later in Makhachkala. Among those killed were six policemen, one national guard officer,

At least six people have died and more than 100 have been wounded in Ukrainian drone and missile attacks, according to Russian authorities. Five people, including two children, were killed by falling debris when five Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the port city of Sevastopol in Russia-annexed Crimea, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the city’s Moscow-installed

Dalal is the little Syrian girl they never thought would survive. Now four years old, despite horrific burn scars and no hands she is confounding the doctors, her family and everyone who knows her, all over again. We watch as she concentrates hard on manoeuvring a pen between the stumps which she’s been left with.

At least 42 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, the director of the Hamas-run government media office has said. An Israeli strike on houses in Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza City killed 24 people, Ismail Al Thawabta told Reuters. Another 18 Palestinians were killed in a strike on houses in the

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed, and 50 injured, after Israeli tanks are said to have fired on tents sheltering displaced families in Rafah, according to health officials and emergency workers in Gaza. Witnesses said the latest attack in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, took place in Mawasi, western Rafah,

Four members of Britain’s richest family have received jail sentences after being found guilty of exploiting their vulnerable domestic workers and providing unauthorised employment. Indian-born tycoon Prakash Hinduja and his wife Kamal, along with their son Ajay and his wife Namrata, were, however, cleared by a Swiss court of more serious charges of human trafficking

On the coastline of southern Italy, a small group gathered at the water’s edge. They could not go any further into the Ionian Sea although they clearly wished they could. “Is Europe worth all this trouble, I swear to God it’s not,” says a man called Setar. “Why put your wife and children through this?”

Photographs show the Tenerife property where British teenager Jay Slater is believed to have been last seen before he went missing on Monday. A Snapchat video shared by the 19-year-old on Sunday night appears to show the property he visited in the northwestern mountain village of Masca after attending the NRG music festival. Mr Slater,

Vladimir Putin hit out at what he called “Western isolation” and heaped praise on Vietnam, as Russia’s president continues his tour of Asia. In an opinion piece, published to coincide with his arrival in Hanoi, Putin praised Vietnam for its “balanced” stance on the war in Ukraine. Ukraine war latest: UK says ‘bizarre’ deal should

A British teenager who is missing in Tenerife had “cut his leg on a cactus” and did not know where he was, a friend has told Sky News. Lucy Law said 19-year-old Jay Slater is “not a stupid boy” and would have flagged down any passing car or spoken to passers by. Mr Slater, from

So here’s a story of a morning at the beach. There’s no ice cream, no sandcastles and no sense of fun in this tale – but there are criminal gangs, dune buggies and desperate people. The beach is an illustration of the lengths people will go to, the risks they will take, just to try