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Three people were killed and 10 injured after Russian forces shelled three small boats taking elderly residents to safety after the destructive flooding in southern Ukraine.  The area has been devastated by catastrophic flooding along the Dnipro river after the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up. Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of destroying

The Foreign Office says it is supporting British nationals who were on a boat which caught fire off the coast of Egypt. Three people are missing after a dive boat burst into flames at Marsa Alam in the Red Sea, according to local reports. Police are reported as saying 29 people were on the vessel,

Counteroffensive action against Russian forces is under way, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, with troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Speaking at a Kyiv news conference alongside Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau, Zelenskyy was responding to Vladimir Putin’s comment that Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses”. Mr Zelensky said: “The counteroffensive,

Four children have been found alive – five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed into thick jungle. They were rescued by the Colombian military, not far from where the Cessna 206 crashed. Three adults on board, including the pilot, lost their lives. Exhaustive searches have been underway for the children – who

The school run in Annecy on Friday morning was not an easy one for many parents. It was perhaps most difficult for those dropping their children off at the school next to the playground where four toddlers were attacked on Thursday. Among them was Colene Semoen, a grandmother. She was bringing her four-year-old granddaughter Iris

Italy’s controversial former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died. The 86-year-old senator and leader of the Forza Italia party, whose string of financial and sex scandals made him the most polarising figure in modern Italy, was admitted to hospital on Friday. He had been discharged from hospital last month where he was treated for over

Greta Thunberg says she is “technically” taking part in her final school strike for climate today – with a warning: “The fight has only just begun.” The Swedish climate activist who inspired a worldwide youth climate strike movement with her one-person school protest starting in 2018, said although she is graduating from school, “I’ll continue

A Syrian refugee who stabbed six people, including four young children in Annecy, southeast France, was denied asylum in the country last month. The suspect, who has been named as Abdalmasih H by French media, had his asylum request rejected because he has held refugee status in Sweden for the past 10 years. French authorities

Three children are in a life-threatening condition after a knife attack in Annecy in southeast France, police have said. Four children and an adult were injured in total, officers added. The youngsters are all about three years of age, police said. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a suspect had been arrested “thanks to the swift

There was a steady stream of boat landings throughout the day in Kherson city in southern Ukraine as the rescue efforts were ramped up to reach those stranded by floodwaters. The water levels rose about 11 feet in about 24 hours according to emergency services, with some areas reaching a depth of 17 feet. It

Around 42,000 people are at risk from the destruction of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam as rescue efforts continue to save people trapped by the rising waters, according to Ukrainian officials. At least seven people are missing while up to another 100 people are trapped in the town of Nova Kakhovka, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.

The torrent of water unleashed by the breaching of the Nova Kakhovka dam has engulfed whole villages, towns, agricultural land and large sections of Kherson city in southern Ukraine. We watched as the waters rose and rose in Kherson city – sweeping debris, branches, tyres and anything else in its path. Residents scrambled to leave

A dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine has been damaged by shelling, leading to flooding in the area already hit by months of conflict. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials blamed each other for destroying the Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine’s military said that Russian forces blew up the dam. “The

Russian reports that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun are being used to distract from Russian losses in Bakhmut, the Ukrainian deputy defence minister has said. The comments from deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar come after Moscow said it had thwarted a major Ukrainian assault in the south of Ukraine‘s Donetsk region. Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian

A Russian governor has said he is willing to meet with a pro-Ukraine group of Russian fighters who are keeping two Russian soldiers captive. The group – the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) – said it was open to exchanging the soldiers in return for a meeting with the governor of the Belgorod region. “Most likely

India’s deadly rail crash was likely caused by a signalling failure that caused a train to wrongly change tracks, the country’s railway minister has said. Ashwini Vaishnaw said there had been an error with the “electronic interlocking” – a system that manages the tracks and signal sequencing using sensors and feedback. “Whoever did it and

A purported arms contract seen by Sky News offers the first hard evidence that Iran has sold ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine, an informed security source has claimed. If authentic, the 16-page document, dated 14 September 2022, appears to be for samples of varying sizes of artillery, tank shells and rockets worth

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said people found “guilty” for the deadly train crash in India will receive the “harshest punishment”. At least 288 people were killed and more than 850 injured in Friday’s accident in Odisha’s Balasore district state. On his visit to the crash site on Saturday, Mr Modi also pledged to look

Many people are feared dead and hundreds of others have been injured after a train crash in eastern India. At least 50 people have reportedly been killed after a passenger train derailed and collided with a goods train in Odisha’s Balasore district. Rescuers were attempting to free 200 people feared trapped in the derailed coaches,

At least 233 people have been killed after at least two trains were involved in a crash in eastern India. The collision happened about 130 miles southwest of Kolkata in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening. Between 10 and 12 carriages of one train derailing and debris falling on to a nearby track, according to