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The deaths of 48 people in the worst fire in the history of Ireland have been ruled by a jury as unlawful killing. A jury at Dublin District Coroner’s Court delivered majority verdicts on the victims of the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire in the city on Thursday. The venue in Artane, north Dublin, was packed

Lebanon is balanced as though on an earthquake faultline right now – whatever Israel decides to do next will have massive repercussions throughout the entire region. That’s how critical the situation is in Lebanon and the surrounding countries, as described by one seasoned Lebanese political analyst. Khodor Taleb is also the former adviser to three

When the first pictures of downed Iranian rockets emerged on Sunday morning, they didn’t look real. Even seasoned military spokesman Peter Lerner was fooled. “I thought it was fake news,” he told Sky News. The huge black tubes littering the Dead Sea and other parts of Israel seemed too colossal to be genuine. We had

In a world that has grown more dangerous in recent years, the nightmare scenario of a Third World War is in the public consciousness. Earlier this year, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in the next five years, and said we

EasyJet has suspended all flights to Tel Aviv over safety concerns for journeys to Israel – days after Iran’s attack caused chaos for airlines. Flight data showed dozens of journeys that would have travelled over the Middle East turned back on Saturday after Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles into Israel. Now easyJet

Take the win, or strike back? The question exercising Israeli minds in the wake of Iran‘s missile onslaught and the focus of intense debate in Jerusalem. The outcome will decide the immediate fate of this region. A return to shadow war, or all-out escalation into something much more serious. Joe Biden and other allies say

Iran’s ambassador to the UN has told Sky News that Israel’s promise of a significant response to Saturday’s attack is “a threat, not an action”. Amir Saeid Iravani was speaking exclusively to Sky’s James Matthews after an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Sunday. The day before, his country launched

Iran’s attack on Israel was a “declaration of war”, the country’s president has told Sky News – as he insisted “we are seeking peace”. In an interview with Sky’s Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Isaac Herzog said world leaders need to “make it clear” to the Iranian regime that its behaviour is “unacceptable”. He described

Israel is preparing to defend its airspace after Iran said it had launched dozens of missiles and drones towards its enemy. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) said it was responding to an “attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus” on 1 April. Two generals and seven members of the IRG were

Joe Biden has reaffirmed the US’s “ironclad” commitment to Israel’s security after Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles in an “unprecedented” attack. With additional launches in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, over 300 drones and missiles, including 120 ballistic missiles and 30 cruise missiles, were fired at Israel. RAF planes were involved in the

A major police operation is under way after reports of multiple stabbings in a shopping centre near Bondi Beach in Sydney. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre. Reuters reported a man had been shot. One witness said they saw a woman lying on the ground before sheltering in

Israel remains braced for an attack from Iran as the US moves “additional assets” to the Middle East. Joe Biden said he expects an attack “sooner, rather than later” and simply told Tehran “don’t”, with warnings growing of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran’s embassy in Syria. The White

Harry Kane’s three eldest children were taken to hospital as a precaution following a three-car crash in Germany. The collision happened on Monday at around 5.15pm local time near Munich, just as the 30-year-old landed with Bayern Munich for their Champions League quarter-final match against Arsenal. Munich Police said a Renault with four people had

A tourist has died after falling into the sea in Tenerife. It’s believed the 53-year-old man was trying to take photographs of huge waves during a storm in Puerto de la Cruz on Wednesday afternoon. Footage posted by the emergency services showed an air ambulance attempting to rescue him as water crashed on the coastline.

The risks of the Gaza war expanding into a much bigger regional conflict had seemed to have subsided. Not any longer. Comments from Iranian and American leaders in the last 24 hours may be entirely predictable but they raise the prospects of escalation. Iran knows it’s been directly attacked in the airstrike on its embassy

An Israeli airstrike has killed three sons of Hamas’s top political leader in an attack on high-profile targets in Gaza. Hamas said four of Ismail Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the strike. The Israeli military said two of his sons, Mohammed and Hazem, were Hamas military operatives, while the third, Amir, was a cell

Athletics will become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics this summer. World Athletics, the international athletics federation, says it will pay Olympic gold medal winners $50,000 (around £39,400) at the Paris games. The athletics governing body said it is setting aside $2.4m (£1.89m) to pay the gold medallists across 48 events

The Champions League quarter-finals will go ahead as scheduled amid an alleged terror threat, UEFA says. A media outlet linked to IS allegedly issued a threat concerning all four of this week’s ties. Two English clubs, Arsenal and Manchester City, are playing tonight in the Champions League quarter-finals. The Gunners will host the first leg

Yemen’s fishermen set out at dawn to take on seas where they know they could face pirates, smugglers, and now Houthi militant missile attacks. “We’re always scared,” Awad tells us as he sits on the edge of the wooden fishing boat. “Because you don’t know when you will be attacked.” The Red Sea and the

The total eclipse is making its way across the United States, after starting in Mexico. The highly-anticipated eclipse saw the Earth, the sun and the moon perfectly aligned, resulting in ‘totality’ – the moment when the face of the sun is completely blocked by the moon. The Mexican beach town of Mazatlan was the first