A Belarusian opposition activist who was arrested after the Ryanair plane he was on was diverted to Minsk in a “state-sponsored hijacking” has appeared in a new video. Journalist Roman Protasevich‘s flight from Athens in Greece was rerouted from its scheduled destination of Vilnius, Lithuania, to the Belarusian capital on the orders of President Alexander
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European leaders and the US have strongly condemned the arrest of a Belarusian dissident journalist after the Ryanair flight he was travelling on was forced to land in the Belarus capital Minsk. Roman Protasevich, 26, was arrested after his Ryanair flight from Athens was diverted from its scheduled destination of Vilnius in Lithuania on Sunday.
A senior Hamas leader has told Sky News the group’s current ceasefire should hold but warned there was no chance of making peace with Israel for the moment. In a wide ranging interview – the first he’s given to any broadcaster since the ceasefire was announced – Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas co-founder, denied the group
DR Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo has erupted for the first time in nearly two decades. Many thousands of people have fled the city of Goma, some heading for its highest point Mount Goma. Others headed for the nearby Rwandan border, with authorities there saying that around 3,000 people had already crossed over on Saturday night. Goma
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is continuing to hold, allowing the first aid convoys to reach Gaza. The truce, which began before dawn on Friday, is allowing both sides to assess the damage following 11 days of conflict in which Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes and militants fired thousands of rockets at Israel. Gaza
US President Joe Biden has said a two-state solution is the only answer to resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. Speaking at a White House news conference, Mr Biden said that he was praying that the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas would hold. The US administration worked in the background, along
The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas overnight appeared to have been upheld by both sides in the first 12 hours. Eleven days of violence officially came to an end at 2am on Friday (12am UK time) after Egypt and the US helped broker a peace deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced it had
The rockets, the missiles and the air strikes will stop at 2am local time on Friday. After 11 days of fighting, both Israel and Hamas have agreed, through intermediaries, to a ceasefire. The moment is right for both of them to claim a victory. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player ‘There
Israeli and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire to end their conflict after 11 days of fighting. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the ceasefire and a statement from the security cabinet called the truce “mutual and unconditional”. Hamas said the truce would begin at 2am local time on Friday (midnight UK time), but Israel said
Ultranationalist Israelis are are trying to hide their activities by creating private online groups where members must prove who they are in order to gain access. One such group told its prospective members they were trying to block “police, Arabs and journalists” from tracking them. Sky News has been examining active Israeli ultranationalist social media
US President Joe Biden has told Israel’s prime minister he expects to see a significant de-escalation in its conflict with Hamas today. In what will be seen as Biden’s toughest public pressure on the US ally so far, the White House said the president asked Mr Netanyahu in a telephone call to move toward “the
There remains little sign of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza after more than a week of cross-border attacks. While France has called for a UN Security Council resolution on the violence, the United States has said it prefers “intensive behind-the-scenes discussions”. After Israeli’s N12 TV news channel said fighting could end on Thursday morning,
The view from the Qeeq family home is rubble. Next door is where the Hadidis once lived – a family now without a mother and four of her sons. The Qeeqs somehow survived. Three generations are holding together, just. Image: Susu says she felt ‘scared’ during the airstrikes Overhead, the dull buzz is the sound
The fighting between Israel and Hamas is showing few signs of slowing down following another night of bombardments. More strikes on Gaza have been reported this morning following with plumes of smoke rising from suspected Israeli missile strikes. And after more than a week of violence, the Israeli military said Hamas and other Palestinian groups
Sustained Israeli military airstrikes have destroyed nine miles (14km) of militant tunnels along the Gaza Strip, and the homes of nine Hamas commanders, it has been claimed. According to the Israeli Defense Forces, the latest attacks killed a local Gaza leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group, blamed for some of the thousands of rocket
Heavy bombing has continued in Gaza in the early hours of the morning as Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes across several locations. Explosions rocked Gaza City for 10 minutes on Monday morning, lasting longer and targeting a wider area than the air raids that killed 42 Palestinians a day before. The violent assaults