We’re used to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the war leader in his combat fatigues. They were the ones that memorably earned him a dressing down from Donald Trump in the Oval Office last year. But in his third speech to the UK parliament since the Russian invasion four years ago, we saw him suited […]
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The Princess of Wales wished the officers and guardsmen of the Irish Guards a happy St Patrick’s Day as she presented them with traditional sprigs of shamrock. Kate – who has served as the regiment’s colonel since 2022 – also greeted its mascot, an Irish wolf hound named Turlough Mor, affectionately known as Seamus, as
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Donald Trump has said he’s “disappointed with Keir [Starmer]” over the prime minister’s initial refusal to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East. Repeating his jibe from a few days into the Iran war, the US president said: “Unfortunately Keir is no Winston Churchill.” Mr Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office alongside
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Zack Polanski is set to call on Sir Keir Starmer to step in and protect energy price cap customers from steep bill rises at the start of July. Sky News understands the Green Party leader is about to pile further pressure on the prime minister, who has so far dismissed calls to make any more
Donald Trump’s most senior counterterrorism official has resigned, saying he “cannot in good conscience” support the Iran war and claiming the country posed “no imminent threat” to the United States. Joe Kent was director of the National Counterterrorism Center, leading the agency as it detected and analysed terrorist threats to the US. Announcing his resignation
Naval escorts will not guarantee safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and could even present a target for Iran as it attempts to leverage control of the vital shipping lane, the head of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has warned. Speaking at the start of a two-day emergency meeting of the
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It is easy to forget that not all that long ago, Britain was one of the world’s biggest oil producers. Back in 1986, this country was the fifth biggest crude producer in the world, just behind Mexico and above Iran and Iraq. Even as recently as the turn of the millennium, the UK was still
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MSPs have voted against plans to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Scotland. It comes after politicians debated hundreds of amendments during multiple marathon sessions as the proposed legislation made its way through Holyrood. The deciding Stage 3 debate and vote for the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill took place
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Gerry Adams has denied being a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), telling a court he had “no involvement whatsoever” in bombings carried out by the paramilitary group. In a witness statement to the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday, Mr Adams said he was “never a member of the IRA or
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A woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after the loss of her husband has been found guilty of his murder. Kouri Richins slipped five-times the lethal dose of fentanyl into a cocktail that Eric Richins drank in the false hope of inheriting his estate worth more than $4m (£3m) in Utah
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