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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it has removed two Belarusian team coaches from the Games, four days after they were involved in trying to...

A Belarusian sprinter who has flown to Poland after a stand-off with her country’s officials at the Tokyo Olympics said her grandmother had advised...

Last month was the second hottest July in Europe on record and the third hottest ever globally, EU scientists confirmed today. The only hotter...

Security forces in Lebanon have fired water cannon and tear gas at anti-government protesters calling for justice on the one-year anniversary of the Beirut...

More than 300 people have died after disastrous flooding hit central China, including 14 who perished after getting trapped in a flooded subway line....

The UK has reported a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates as a security source said a...

A Belarusian activist who was reported missing has been found dead in a park in Kiev, Ukrainian police have said. Vitaly Shishov led Kiev-based...

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...