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At least 30 people have been killed and 17 are injured after a methane leak sparked an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, state media reports. Another 24 miners are believed to be trapped inside after the explosion struck a mine in Tabas, some 335 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran. The state-run

One person has been killed and several others are missing as heavy rain triggered floods and landslides in a northern, quake-struck region of Japan. Dramatic footage shows people wading through floods in the coastal region of Ishikawa, where communities were reeling from an earthquake on New Year’s Day which saw hundreds killed. Aerial shots show

A New Zealand pilot has been released after a year and a half of being held hostage in Indonesia’s Papua region. Phillip Mehrtens was captured by separatist rebels the West Papua Liberation Army after he landed a commercial plane on 7 February last year. He was due to pick up 15 construction workers who had

Sky News analysis has found Israeli soldiers pushed at least four apparently lifeless bodies from the roof of a building in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Warning: Some readers may find the content in this story distressing. Videos posted on social media and footage obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency show soldiers

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it struck hundreds of rocket launcher sites across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah’s leader attacked Israel for crossing a “red line”. Israel’s military said the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out the strikes across two hours late Thursday evening, marking the first major attack since Lebanon was hit by pager

The company behind the Titan submersible which sank off the wreck of the Titanic last year, killing all five people on board, was staffed by “competent people who just wanted to make dreams come true”, a senior employee has said. Mission specialist Renata Rojas told a US Coast Guard panel investigating the disaster she was

The suspected conversion by Israel of basic communication devices into bombs to attack Hezbollah demonstrates the deadly and confusing potential of unconventional warfare. The unprecedented nature of the assault, with pagers and walkie-talkie radios detonating across Lebanon, also challenges the concept of “grey zone” attacks, which are typically designed to be conducted under the threshold

Sky News’ Data and Forensics team has spoken to four experts to answer the question – how does a pager or hand-held radio explode? The pagers that exploded in Lebanon yesterday are consistent with the AR-924 model of pager with Gold Apollo branding – a Taiwan-based company. The firm’s founder Hsu Ching-Kuang says the devices

Heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk has thanked people for their “concern” after he was detained at Poland’s Krakow airport. The Ukrainian boxer was filmed in handcuffs by the news channel TVP Info. His wife posted a blurred video on Instagram showing him surrounded by uniformed officers, saying she was thankful he was free and clarifying

Making money was the driving force of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible and it involved “very little in the way of science”, OceanGate’s former operations director has said. The vessel imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic in June last year, killing all five people on board. David Lochridge, who

Donald Trump has described being grabbed by Secret Service agents after “four or five” gunshots were heard during an apparent assassination attempt while he played golf.  The Republican presidential nominee described the events of Sunday afternoon at his Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach in Florida as “quite something”, adding “but it all

At least 16 people have died after heavy flooding across eastern and central Europe. Several areas in Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic were hit hard over the weekend as heavy rain and surging water levels forced evacuations, collapsed bridges and damaged houses and cars. The number of flood victims in southwestern Poland rose to

President Joe Biden has said he will ensure the Secret Service has “every resource” to keep Donald Trump safe after a second “assassination attempt” on his life. The president said he was “relieved” Mr Trump was “unharmed” after 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested in connection with shots being fired near to where the former

Donald Trump’s campaign has said he is safe after gunshots were reported in his vicinity on Sunday afternoon in Florida. The campaign did not immediately provide any additional details. Follow latest:Secret Service move Trump to safety after shots heard However, Sky’s US partner NBC, citing a senior police officer, said Mr Trump was at Trump

Several migrants have died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the Channel, authorities have said. The deaths occurred in the commune of Ambleteuse, French officials said. It comes as French authorities rescued some 200 people off the coast of Calais over a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday night. A boat carrying