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Donald Trump has said he hates Taylor Swift – just days after the pop mega-star endorsed his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. In an all-caps posting on his Truth Social media account, Mr Trump wrote: “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Follow US election latest:Harris campaign teases Trump with Swift-themed attack Following last week’s Trump-Harris debate, Swift informed

A billionaire astronaut and his crew have returned to Earth after taking part in the first private spacewalk. Polaris Dawn, operated by SpaceX on behalf of billionaire Jared Isaacman, splashed down at 8.37am today in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness. Carrying four private citizens, including SpaceX engineers Anna

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war, officials have announced. In a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates, each side released 103 prisoners – including Russians captured since Ukraine‘s incursion in the Kursk region began in August. Both sides released images of soldiers being released, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Rafah is now a wasteland. The city in Gaza has been totally flattened by months of war. The rubble in places is many metres high, the buildings that are still standing are hollow shells, their dark, empty windows like vacant souls in a horror show. Image: Sky News visited what remains of Rafah – a

Six British diplomats have been expelled from Russia after being accused of “spying and sabotage”. The country’s FSB security service said they worked in the “political department” of the British embassy in Moscow. A Whitehall source told Sky News the diplomats were kicked out in August as part of a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions. The

Three Red Cross workers have been killed after aid vehicles were “attacked” by Russia in eastern Ukraine, officials in the country have said. The staff members, who were all Ukrainian, died in the village of Viroliubivka in the frontline Donetsk region today. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called their deaths a “war crime” and said Red

The last time war came to Oryol was 1941. It came under Nazi occupation, before becoming one of the first major cities to be liberated by the Soviet Red Army. More than 80 years on, fighting is not far away once again. Ukraine’s incursion into the neighbouring Kursk region is little more than 100 miles

Almost 200 people have died and more than 125 are missing in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi, according to local media. Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit the Southeast Asian country in decades, making landfall on Saturday with winds of up to 92mph (149kph) and causing flash floods and landslides. Some 197

Five people have been taken to hospital and put on ventilators with suspected botulism linked to pesto. The French ministry of farming on Tuesday said it detected five likely cases of food-borne botulism linked to contaminated pesto sauce that had been sold at some regional market fairs in central France. According to French media, the

As the old saying goes, even the dogs in the street know he was talking nonsense. Donald Trump rolled out the long-debunked rumour that Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. The debate moderator, in serious tone, duly interjected that they’d contacted the “city manager” who had played it down. It

President Joe Biden is “not ruling out” allowing Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory, the US secretary of state has told Sky News. Antony Blinken made the comment after he told a news conference in London that Iran has provided Moscow with short-range missiles and Vladimir Putin will “likely use them within weeks

The man accused of fatally burning a Ugandan Olympian has also died. Rebecca Cheptegei died last Thursday after she was left severely injured following an alleged dispute in Kenya over land. Dickson Ndiema, her alleged attacker and former partner, died on Monday night at the intensive care unit where he had been admitted after also

A major US-led search for what would be the first ever great white shark recorded in either Irish or British waters has concluded without success. The team from non-profit research organisation Ocearch is returning to Florida after finishing work at the grey seal hotspot of the Great Blasket Island in County Kerry. “Sure, it was

Before the Stade de France transformed into a nightclub – the track becoming a giant dance floor – there was a plea from this corner of Paris to the world. Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee president, closed Paris 2024 by calling for an “inclusion revolution”. But speaking of being inspired by the last 11

A “very dangerous” British prisoner is among five inmates who have escaped from a high-security prison in Portugal. Mark Cameron Roscaleer, 39, had been serving a nine-year sentence for kidnap and robbery at the Vale de Judeus jail, about 43 miles (70km) north of Lisbon. The five men, aged between 33 and 61, fled on

Iran is believed to have sent more than 200 ballistic missiles to Russia – a move security chiefs say would be a “dramatic escalation” of its defence partnership with Moscow. A Russian ship delivered the short-range Fatah-360 missiles from Tehran to a port in the Caspian Sea, a Ukrainian source told Sky News on Saturday.

The family of an American-Turkish activist have described their “shock and grief” and demanded an independent investigation into her “unlawful killing” after she was reportedly shot by Israeli forces. Palestinian and Turkish officials said Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot in the head in the village of Beita, near Nablus, during a protest on Friday

Russia is waging a “reckless campaign of sabotage” across Europe, the heads of MI6 and the CIA have warned in their first-ever joint remarks. Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns also said the UK and the US faced an “unprecedented array of threats”, and said the entire world order was under the most serious strain since

An American-Turkish activist has died of her injuries after reportedly being shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The Palestinian ambassador to the UK said the woman was shot in the head in Beita, near Nablus, earlier today. A&E medic Dr Ward Basalat said he treated her head wound but she died shortly after

At least 17 students have been killed after a fire in a school dormitory in Kenya. The number of dead may rise, police said, adding that at least 13 students have been seriously burned. The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, a police spokesperson said.