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FIFA President Gianni Infantino has threatened not to show the Women’s World Cup in five European countries – including Britain – in a cash row despite internal warnings about the time zone before Australia and New Zealand were selected as hosts. Sky News has uncovered FIFA’s administration twice warned in a bid inspection report that

A desperate Ryanair passenger in a wheelchair felt forced to crawl off of a flight in a “bum shuffle” down plane steps after an “unacceptable” delay in assistance. Adrian Keogh, 37, told Sky News he wants airports and airlines to do more for people with disabilities after his ordeal at an airport in Sweden. Mr

An artificial intelligence trailblazer, dubbed the “godfather of AI” has issued a warning about the technology he helped create. Geoffrey Hinton is the latest to join a growing list of experts who are sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Mr Hinton went so far as leaving his job at Google to

More than 60 arrests have been made and one police officer has been hit by a Molotov cocktail during clashes between police and protesters in France, officials have said. France’s interior minister Gerald Darmanin said the majority of May Day protests were peaceful, but he claimed in Paris, Lyon and Nantes “police are faced with

“None of the ceasefires have been respected in total,” Volker Perthes, United Nations special representative for Sudan, has told Sky News. As Sudan’s political centre collapses under the chaos of urban warfare, Mr Perthes is regrouping with his team in the new peacetime capital of Port Sudan. In an exclusive TV interview, Sky News sat

Eleven people have died after a gas leak in northern India. The leak happened in an industrial area in the city of Ludhiana, Punjab state. Rajinder Pal Kaur Chhina, a member of the legislative assembly in Ludhiana, said at least nine people had also been taken to hospital. A team from the National Disaster Response

The final UK evacuation flight will leave Sudan tonight, as the death toll rises in the war-torn country. Gunfire and heavy artillery in parts of the capital Khartoum, despite a ceasefire between the country’s two top generals, was reported by residents on Saturday. Some 1,888 people have been evacuated on 21 flights from Wadi Saeedna

British nationals seeking to flee Sudan have only until midday local time if they want to be evacuated from the war-torn country as NHS doctors without UK passports were told they can now catch final rescue flights. The Foreign Office has urged those still in the African nation to travel to the Wadi Saeedna airfield

British nationals in Sudan have until midday to catch a flight before they are stopped, the deputy prime minister has said. The flights will end at 7pm local time on Saturday, Oliver Dowden confirmed, with those remaining in Sudan told to get to the Wadi Saeedna rescue site before 12pm local time (11am UK time)

A ceasefire in Sudan has been extended for three more days despite continuing reports of heavy fighting in the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur. The truce between Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and military had been due to expire at midnight, but the US and Saudi Arabia brokered a new deal.

British nationals in Sudan have been warned the UK “cannot guarantee” how many more evacuation flights will leave Khartoum after the 72-hour ceasefire expires. So far, 536 British nationals have been airlifted to safety on six flights, according to the Foreign Office. The US-Saudi mediated ceasefire between Sudan’s two warring factions is due to expire

Sudan’s rival factions have agreed to extend a 72-hour ceasefire – just hours before the original truce was due to end. First the country’s army, then its rivals in the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to the extension brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia, it was announced on Thursday evening. But violence continues

Many people are arriving in Cyprus utterly traumatised and too upset to talk about what they’ve been through to get here. We watched a hundred or so, slowly walk down the ramp off the back of an RAF Hercules aircraft into the Mediterranean sun on this holiday island. What a culture shock that must be.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he has had a “long and meaningful” call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. During the long-anticipated conversation between the two leaders, Xi appealed for Russia and Ukraine to restart peace talks and warned “there is no winner in a nuclear war”, according to state media. The Chinese government also pledged

As the UK government begins evacuating British citizens from Sudan, many have made their own way out to safety. Hotels across Djibouti have become places of refuge for those fleeing devastation and bloodshed in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and brought here by international rescue missions. A sleepy port city

The UK is coordinating an evacuation of British nationals from Sudan, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said. Military flights are due to depart from an airfield outside Khartoum, supported by diplomats from the Foreign Office, the government has said. Mr Cleverly says the Foreign Office has started contacting nationals directly and is providing routes to

An Irish woman has described her dramatic escape from Sudan with her children as gunfire erupted around them – and has been left “heartbroken” as her husband remains in the country. Mother-of-three Sarah Widaa told Sky News that she was given just over an hour’s notice to get to the French embassy for an evacuation.

Spain could experience its hottest ever day for the month of April this week with forecasters predicting temperatures of up to 40C (104F). Record-breaking temperatures are expected between Wednesday and Friday with temperatures reaching levels normally seen in July. The extreme conditions will follow the driest March in 20 years in some areas which has

The covert mission to evacuate British diplomats and their families from Sudan’s warzone capital began under the cover of darkness. A team of elite British troops flew into Khartoum late on Saturday night on board an American military aircraft that was part of a separate but coordinated US evacuation mission. Upon landing, the British soldiers

UK diplomats and their families have been evacuated from Sudan after a “significant escalation in violence”, Rishi Sunak has said. The prime minister also said he was working to ensure British citizens who are still in the country are safe. He said the evacuation of diplomats and their loved ones was “complex and rapid” and