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Two skiers have been killed during an avalanche in mountains near Salt Lake City.The men, aged 23 and 32, were swept up in the avalanche in Utah’s Wasatch Range on Thursday morning. A third skier was rescued and taken to hospital after digging himself out from the snow, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera.The avalanche followed several days of spring snowstorms in the area. Follow Sky News on WhatsApp Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News Tap here Craig Gordon, from the Utah Avalanche Center, said around…

Military leader Mahamat Deby Itno has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election in Chad, according to provisional results released Thursday. The outcome of Monday’s vote extends his family’s decades-long grip on power.Chadians go to the polls in hopes of ending military ruleTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Masra feared election would be rigged The ANGE electoral commission said Deby garnered 61.03% of votes, beating his main opponent, Prime Minister Succes Masra, who only managed 18.53%. Soldiers fired shots in the air in the capital N’Djamena out of joy and to deter protesters,…

We are rushing down the beach. In the gloom just before dawn, people are waiting by the seashore, a few hundred metres away.We can see a dinghy out at sea. And then a voice rings out, in Kurdish. “Whose passengers are you?”In the half-light, the people smuggler thinks we are customers here to clamber onto the boat, and wants to know who we had paid.We tell him we’re journalists. “Keep out of the way,” he warns.There are several dozen people gathered together, standing on the shoreline, moving anxiously from side to side. Image: Migrants wait for a dinghy as they…

Sky News’s reporting of the civil war in Myanmar has been recognised at the Amnesty International UK Media Awards.The channel was the winner in the Broadcast News category for Myanmar’s Hidden War. Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team spent a month last year living in the jungle with the rebels, with the conflict raging – and found people brave enough to share their harrowing stories of survival and resistance against the army. Image: Stuart Ramsay with his crew in Myanmar Reflecting later on his time in the country, Ramsay wrote: “The jungle of Myanmar was to be our home…

Russia will hold its tradition military parade at Red Square in Moscow on Thursday marking Nazi Germany’s 1945 capitulation in World War II.  President Vladimir Putin is expected to deliver a speech, and most likely to speak in defense of the war in Ukraine.  Russian media reported that some 9,000 soldiers, including some who have been fighting in Ukraine, would participate. An air show, canceled the last two years, is also anticipated. Western leaders will not be in attendance. But the Kremlin has said that heads of state or government from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenista, Cuba, Laos and Guinea Bissau…

All decisions have intended consequences and unintended consequences.The intended consequence of President Biden’s threat to stop sending some weapons to Israel is straightforward: to stop the Israeli military from going into Rafah without a clear, deliverable plan for the civilian population. But there are so many unintended consequences. In Tel Aviv and on Capitol Hill they are beginning to play out already.Both geopolitically and domestically for Mr Biden this decision could come to haunt him.Even before we consider the unintended consequence, there is a key point: the perils of setting red lines. Follow live: Israel-Gaza latestToo often they turn out…

The tide in German women’s football had appeared to be turning. Bayern Munich had wrapped up a second successive Bundesliga title the weekend before the cup final, with big names like Pernille Harder and Georgia Stanway helping them ease away from perennial powerhouses Wolfsburg. But goals from Jule Brand and Dominique Janssen saw the She Wolves win the German Cup for the tenth time in a row on Thursday in front of a sold-out crowd of about 44,000 in Cologne. Having lost 4-0 and 2-1 to the big-spending Bavarians in the league, Wolfsburg’s veteran captain Alexandra Popp admitted to feeling “extremely…

Skip next section WATCH: Putin blasts the West in Victory Day speech05/09/2024May 9, 2024WATCH: Putin blasts the West in Victory Day speechPutin lashes out at West at Russia’s Victory Day paradeTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video https://p.dw.com/p/4fg5JSkip next section Putin says Russian military tech must be a ‘step ahead’ 05/09/2024May 9, 2024Putin says Russian military tech must be a ‘step ahead’ As part of the May 9 festivities, the Kremlin also released video footage of Putin speaking to army commanders a couple of days ago following his swearing-in. …

After long discussion, Germany’s main opposition party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), this week voted to put a gradual return to mandatory military service back on its agenda. That means that if the CDU returns to power, it would try to introduce legislation making it mandatory for young people either serve in the military or the social sector for one year. Germany used to have a system like that, but axed it in 2011. The reason for the CDU’s about-face is concerns about Russia and a lack of personnel in the Bundeswehr. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius of the governing center-left Social Democrats (SPD), has…

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Israel will “stand alone” if it has to in its war against Hamas, after the US threatened to stop sending some weapons to its ally.President Joe Biden earlier said the US would halt offensive munitions supplies to Israel if it attacks the southern Gaza city of Rafah.The Israeli prime minister said in a video statement on Thursday: “If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone.”If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than fingernails.”Follow latest:Updates on Israel-Hamas warAn unnamed Israeli official said Israel will press ahead with…