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The ferocity of the fires in Turkey is quite something to behold. We watched, along with the residents of the pretty seaside town of...

Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has arrived at the Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing to board a flight back to Minsk. The 24-year-old...

An Olympic sprinter from Belarus has said she refuses to return to her home country after apparently being taken to the airport against her...

Tourists staying at the Turkish holiday resort of Bodrum were evacuated and told to wait for rescue boats on Saturday evening as fresh wildfires...

Police fired tear gas at protesters in Paris amid fierce clashes at demonstrations against COVID vaccine passports. Protesters marched on the French capital to...

Tokyo is hot in the summer. That’s why back in the 1964 Olympics they shifted events into October and the athletes enjoyed pretty much...

A crew member from the UK was among two workers killed in an attack on an oil tanker off Oman, the firm managing the...

Human remains found in the search for a missing British hiker have been confirmed as being hers, a charity says. Esther Dingley, 37, was...

Kenya’s president has told Sky News that vaccine nationalism “has really shown how unequal this world is” – and has vowed to fight “day...

Hundreds of military personnel have been called up to help enforce a COVID lockdown in Australia’s biggest city. Sydney has remained under stay-at-home orders...

America’s divisions are huge, but the country appears to have come together to support Simone Biles. The superstar US gymnast, one of the world’s...

The UK will give Kenya 817,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the government has announced. Ministers said the offer would help the nation...

COVID-19 cases in Tokyo are now rising faster than at any time in the pandemic but Japanese authorities are resisting renewed calls for the...

Five people are missing following an explosion at a German industrial park for chemical companies. The blast in Leverkusen has been declared an “extreme...

A violent hailstorm has brought traffic to a halt on one of Italy’s main highways, injuring a number of people and smashing car windows....

Tunisia’s president has been accused of staging a coup by his opponents after he dismissed the prime minister and froze parliament following violent demonstrations...

Dr Angelique Coetzee is a GP in the South African capital Pretoria, where she has run a family clinic for the past 33 years....

The Pride march that snaked its way through Budapest was about much more than just celebrating the city’s LGBT+ community. This was a raucous...

Slava Kemlil is waiting for us on the dock in the Arctic town of Chersky.   He’s been there applying for government grants but...