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The world’s rich nations must help vaccinate the poorest nations or else they will face a continual cycle of economic shocks and restrictions in...

NASA has called off a spacewalk due to the threat of dangerous space debris. Two US astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Tom...

China has for the first time become the single greatest focus for MI6, with its chief warning the risk “is real” of a miscalculation...

The Prince of Wales has formally acknowledged “the appalling atrocity of slavery” in the Caribbean, saying “it forever stains our history” at an event...

The speed with which new variants of the COVID-19 virus spread around the world can leave government’s scrambling to catch up. What is sometimes...

The Prince of Wales will reaffirm the “myriad connections between the people of our countries” as he flies to Barbados for a ceremony to...

Authorities in the Netherlands have detected 13 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant among passengers from South Africa. Health officials said the infected people...

Global concern about the coronavirus pandemic is growing, with a number of countries detecting confirmed cases of the Omicron variant for the first time....

Vaccine manufacturers have expressed confidence that they will be able to rapidly adapt their jabs if the Omicron variant spreads. The new strain –...

So the new variant has a name, but we’ve no idea about its reputation. On paper at least the Omicron variant looks terrifying. It...

The first victim of Wednesday’s tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 21-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq. She...

Boris Johnson has offered to work with France to “move further and faster” in order to tackle small boat crossings and avoid a repeat...

A mayday call by French coastguard requesting urgent help from “all ships” during yesterday’s Channel boat emergency has been obtained by Sky News. Twenty-seven...

At least 24 migrants have drowned while trying to get to the UK across the Channel in an inflatable dinghy, a French official has...

The World Health Organisation has said it is “alarmed” about the surge in COVID-19 infections across Europe as the continent battles a fresh wave...

Fully vaccinated travellers will finally be able to enter New Zealand from 30 April 2022, easing border restrictions that have been in place since...

The EU could surpass two million coronavirus deaths by next March if further action isn’t taken to combat the virus, the World Health Organisation...

Germany’s health minister has warned that by the end of this winter “pretty much everyone” in Germany “will have been vaccinated, recovered or died”....

The teenager acquitted after killing two people and wounding a third at a racial justice protest in the US has claimed he is “not...