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Several missiles have struck and destroyed a building near the airport in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, according to the city’s mayor. Ukraine’s military said the aircraft repair plant was struck by cruise missiles fired from the direction of the Black Sea, which it said were likely Kh-555 weapons launched from heavy strategic bombers.

The death toll from the bombing of a theatre where hundreds of people – including children – are said to have been sheltering is still unknown, Ukraine’s president has said. Foreign ministry officials said civilians were buried under rubble after Wednesday’s attack in Mariupol and shelling was preventing them from assessing the number of casualties.

Rescue workers have been digging survivors out of the rubble of a theatre which was reportedly bombed in a Russian airstrike in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to officials. Prior to Wednesday’s attack, up to 1,000 men, women and children were thought to have taken shelter in the Drama Theatre’s basement seeking safety

The strict 35-hour curfew imposed on the Ukrainian capital did nothing to stop the strikes against its residents. They were woken early once again with more missile strikes tearing into the city. This has gone on for days now. CCTV captured the impact of one substantial strike and another less than a minute later against

A faked video of the Ukrainian president telling people to surrender is being shared online. The video shows what appears to be Volodymyr Zelenskyy standing behind a podium saying: “It turned out to be not so easy being the president.” He goes on to declare that he has “decided to return Donbas” in eastern Ukraine

The body of a three-week-old boy has been pictured lying on the floor of a makeshift morgue in the basement of a Mariupol hospital. The newborn was injured in artillery shelling and could not be saved by doctors in the southern Ukrainian port city which is besieged by Russian forces. The body was one of

A powerful earthquake has hit northern Japan, shaking buildings and triggering a tsunami warning. The tremor registered a magnitude of 7.3, according to public broadcaster NHK. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake struck 60km (36 miles) below the sea off the coast of Fukushima. It is the same region which was devastated by a magnitude 9.0

A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato, have had their hopes mashed, after Guinness World Records confirmed it was not a potato after all. The spud looking plant, known as a tuber, was discovered last August at the couple’s farm near Hamilton when Colin Craig-Brown and his wife

Both Russia and Ukraine appear more optimistic ahead of another scheduled round of peace talks – even as Moscow continues its assaults on Kyiv and other major cities. With Moscow’s ground advance on the Ukrainian capital stalled, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said a neutral military status for Ukraine was being “seriously discussed” by the

A theatre in Mariupol where hundreds of people are reported to have been sheltering has been bombed by Russian forces, local officials have said. The city council said the number of casualties was not yet known, but Sky News has verified footage from the attack as showing the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre. A satellite image

“All the hallmarks of a war crime.” That’s how the UN’s human rights monitor for Myanmar has described a mass killing that Sky News has been investigating. The massacre happened near Mo So in Kayah state on Christmas Eve, leaving at least 37 people dead. It’s an area which has seen heavy fighting between local

Ukraine’s military chief has said his forces would defend the country “until the last drop of blood” as he urged people to calm down about threats of a new Russian invasion. Lieutenant-General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, 48, repeatedly underlined that Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014, telling Sky News in an exclusive interview: “It

Denmark’s foreign intelligence chief has been remanded in custody amid allegations he was involved in the leak of “highly classified” information. Lars Findsen, 57, is among four current and former employees of the Danish intelligence services who were detained in December over the alleged leak. Now Findsen is the only suspect to remain in custody

Novak Djokovic has won his appeal against deportation from Australia, with a judge reinstating his visa and ordering that he be released from hotel quarantine within 30 minutes. Border officials previously ruled that the tennis star did not meet the criteria for a COVID exemption to entry requirements. Djokovic had spent four nights in an

The Australian government did not tell Novak Djokovic that his “so-called medical exemption” would allow him to enter the country to compete in the Australian Open, court documents claim. On Sunday, the government filed 13 pages of documents ahead of a hearing later to decide whether the Serbian tennis star can remain in the country

Seven people have died after a slab of rock broke off a cliff and crashed onto pleasure boaters near a waterfall in Brazil. Three people are still missing, and nine were seriously injured in the freak accident which took place between the towns of Sao Jose da Barra and Capitolio. Edgard Estevo, commander of the

At least 56 people have been killed in an air strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, according to Reuters. There were at least 30 others injured in the bombing on Friday night, two aid workers told the news agency, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts. The workers

Novak Djokovic, who is fighting deportation from Australia, tested positive for COVID-19 on 16 December, according to court documents. The world tennis number one is in immigration detention after having his visa cancelled when he arrived in Melbourne on Thursday. Djokovic said in his court application that he had a valid visa and medical exemption

Legendary Hollywood actor and first black man to win an Oscar, Sir Sidney Poitier, has died at the age of 94, a Bahamian government official has said. In 1964, he made history by clinching the Academy of Motion Pictures statuette for his work in Lilies of the Field, and went on to appear in dozens

Novak Djokovic’s wife has thanked his fans for “using your voice to send love to my husband” while he remains in a quarantine hotel in Australia amid a row over a COVID-19 vaccine medical exemption. The world number one is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against the decision by the Australian Border Force (ABF)