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Pakistan’s prime minister has sparked anger after he appeared to blame how some women dress for a rise in rape cases in his country.  Former cricketer Imran Khan made the remarks during a question and answer session with the public on Sunday. According to reports, a caller asked what the government is doing about a

More than 4,000 COVID deaths have been recorded in a single day in Brazil, with one doctor comparing the country’s crisis to a “biological Fukushima”. The outbreak is overwhelming hospitals in the South American nation – and scientists are forecasting that the surge in fatalities will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave

Jordan has banned social media users and all news outlets from publishing anything about the king’s half-brother – who has been accused of plotting to destabilise the country. It follows Prince Hamza‘s dramatic video message in which he said he was under house arrest and accused Jordan‘s leaders of incompetence and corruption. On Monday, just

New Zealand is to create a travel bubble with Australia allowing quarantine-free visits from 19 April. Both countries have effectively eradicated COVID-19 after closing their borders to the rest of the world. The move will come comes as a relief to families who have been separated by the coronavirus pandemic as well as to hard-hit

Sky News is the first international broadcaster to reach the centre of the Mozambican town of Palma since it was ransacked by extremist militants linked to the Islamic State. Our team saw bodies still lying in the street and multiple shops, offices and homes, as well as a hospital had been vandalised and set alight.

At least 76 people have been killed and thousands displaced by flash floods and landslides following a tropical cyclone in Indonesia and East Timor, according to officials. Tropical Cyclone Seroja brought torrential train to a cluster of islands, with 55 people dead and 40 missing in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, disaster agency BNPB said.

Mozambique is in the throes of an insurgency by Islamic State-linked militants, which has left a British man among those killed. Dozens were killed in an attack last month in the town of Palma – with Briton Philip Mawer among them. Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay reports on pictures of the aftermath passed exclusively to Sky

Jordan’s top military official has denied reports that the king’s half-brother has been arrested as part of an alleged coup attempt against the monarch. But Major General Yousef Huneiti did say that Prince Hamza bin Al-Hussein was asked to stop “movements and activities that are used to target” the security and stability of Jordan. It

Prosecutors in Taiwan want to arrest the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a rail track killing 50 people and injuring 178. The train, carrying 494 passengers, came off the rails in a tunnel just north of Hualien causing some carriages to hit the wall of the tunnel on Friday. It smashed into

This week prosecutors have been laying out their case for the second and third-degree murder and manslaughter of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, 45, is accused of murdering Mr Floyd in Minneapolis last year by kneeling on the 46-year-old’s neck for more than nine minutes, as he lay face-down in handcuffs. Mr Floyd was being detained

The US and Iran have said they will begin negotations through intermediaries to try to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear programme. The announcement marked the first major progress in efforts to return both countries to the 2015 accord, which bound Iran to restrictions on its nuclear programmes in return for

A two-time Olympic silver medallist canoeist and his brother have been found guilty of plotting to smuggle £110m worth of cocaine into Australia. Nathan Baggaley, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and his brother, Dru Baggaley, were charged with attempting to import 650kg of cocaine in 2018. The Australian brothers, who

At least 43 children have died in violence during Myanmar’s coup, according to reports described as “horrifying”. The death toll of children has more than doubled in the past 12 days and the total number of people killed now stands at 521, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) says. The youngest victim was a

Above the Elysee Palace, the sky was big and blue. It could have been a perfect Paris day, except that the topic for debate was pressing, and grim.  As the sun beat down, the president was talking to his senior ministers about how to react to the rapid rise in infections, hospitalisations and admissions to

France will widen strict lockdown restrictions – which have already been in place in several areas including Paris – to the whole country to combat a third wave of coronavirus sweeping Europe. In a televised address to the nation, President Emmanuel Macron said the measures will come into effect on Saturday and be in place

The heads of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces have resigned in another blow to President Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership. The shock departure of the country’s three top military commanders comes after the president carried out a cabinet reshuffle which included the replacement of defence minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva, who said in his resignation