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Traces of cyanide have been found in cups and a teapot in the room of a luxury Bangkok hotel where the bodies of six people were discovered in a suspected deliberate poisoning. Police in Thailand said cyanide poisoning was likely the cause of death of the three men and three women – four Vietnamese nationals

At least six people have been found dead at a hotel in Bangkok. The bodies of the six people – all Vietnamese nationals – were discovered in Thailand’s capital on Tuesday. An initial report that there had been a shooting was dismissed by a local police official. “There is no sign of a shooting,” the

Within minutes, what should have been a regular rally for Donald Trump quickly spiraled into a deadly assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Using videos from the ground and aerial imagery, Sky News details what we know about the security efforts before and during the attack. Our analysis found police vehicles were parked as close as 20m/65ft

A body believed to be that of British teenager Jay Slater has been found a month after his disappearance in Tenerife. The local civil guard said on Monday they had found a “lifeless body of a young man after 29 days of constant search”. “All indications are that it could be the young British man

Donald Trump says he has changed his upcoming speech to the Republican National Convention after the attempt on his life. The former president arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the convention a day after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at him from a roof during a campaign rally. In an interview with the Washington Examiner during

A “fundamental security failure” allowed a gunman to get close enough to Donald Trump to shoot him, according to an analysis of the scene of the assassination attempt. Sky News analysis of the area where the former president was shot from as he gave a speech to supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, suggests a

Thomas Matthew Crooks has been named as the gunman in the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Saturday evening. Mr Trump‘s ear was hit in the shooting, which killed one person and injured two others. Shooting latest: Trump releases statement after assassination attempt The US Secret Service said the gunman was “neutralised”. Here is everything

Israel’s military is investigating claims dozens of people have been killed in strikes on Gaza – as media reports say they were targeting the mastermind behind the 7 October attack. Hamas’s media office said at least 100 people were killed or injured in the attack on the southern city of Khan Younis, which hit tents

Dozens of bodies have been found in Gaza City, Palestinian rescue workers have said, after Israeli forces reportedly pulled out of parts of two districts following days of bombardment and fighting there. Israel’s military launched an incursion into the Tal al Hawa and Sinaah neighbourhoods earlier this week to fight what it said were Hamas

Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial has been put on hold following a motion by his legal team to dismiss the case over a claim that ammunition evidence was hidden. On day three of Baldwin‘s trial, the actor’s lawyers said the Santa Fe sheriff’s office took possession of live rounds as evidence in the case but

The Democratic Party is now looking for a new candidate to run for president after Joe Biden announced he would stand down. In a statement addressed to “my fellow Americans”, he said it had been the “greatest honour of my life to serve as your president”. There has been intense speculation over whether the 81-year-old

It was Biden’s big screen test but, in truth, he rather blew it before it began.  A couple of hours before he took the stage, the president had a ‘Putin’ moment – mistakenly introducing Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy as “President Putin”. It was already the gaffe of the day. Biden might have led a successful NATO

The spire of France’s famous Rouen cathedral is on fire, according to the city’s mayor. Images posted on social media showed flames spewing from what looks like a scaffolding canopy near the top of the building, which is renowned due to its three towers spanning hundreds of years of architecture. The gothic cathedral is widely

Sir Keir Starmer has told the Ukrainian president that British missiles can be used for defensive strikes against targets inside Russia. The announcement came as the new British prime minister met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington DC on Wednesday. The decision over the Storm Shadow missiles, which has been welcomed by Ukraine,

An Irish woman who was detained by police and charged with attempting suicide by a Dubai court will be allowed to return home, Ireland’s prime minister has said. Tori Towey, from Boyle in County Roscommon, says she tried to take her own life after allegedly being attacked and left with severe bruising and other injuries.

Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza. The strike at the entrance to the school hit the tents of displaced families in the town of Abassan, east of Khan Younis, with most of the victims being women and children, according to Palestinian medical officials. The Israeli

The Irish government is being urged to intervene in the case of a woman who has been charged with attempting suicide by a court in Dubai. Tori Towey, from Boyle in County Roscommon, works in the United Arab Emirates as an airline cabin crew member and says she tried to take her own life after

Fifty feet underground, in one of the most secure rooms in Israel, is the country’s blood vault. We’re told we can’t say its exact location and they won’t reveal what measures have been taken to protect it, but it is safe against missile, chemical, and cyber attacks, and in the air-conditioned room are boxes and

A children’s hospital in Kyiv has been hit by missiles as Russia unleashed a deadly barrage across Ukraine. The attack is the biggest bombardment of the Ukrainian capital for several months, officials said. It was part of a wider strike across Ukraine that has left at least 20 dead and around 50 others injured, according

National Rally has come third in the second round of voting in France’s parliamentary election – according to exit polls. Marine Le Pen’s far-right party was being tipped to emerge as the dominant force in French politics following President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to hold a snap poll. But the left-wing New Popular Front coalition won