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Haiti’s government on Friday issued a decree formalizing the creation of a nine-member Presidential Transition Council tasked with choosing the next prime minister and Cabinet. The decree, published in Le Moniteur gazette a month after Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he would step down, calls for the council to “participate, in agreement with the prime minister, in the formation of an inclusive ministers’ Cabinet.” It says the council must “rapidly” choose a new prime minister but does not set an exact timeframe. The decree stipulates the council be headquartered in the National Palace in downtown Port-au-Prince. First step to restoring security The…

For years through childhood and early adulthood, Raven van Dorst felt different. The response evoked in others was always ‘too’: too loud, too wild, too aggressive, too messy.It wasn’t until a visit to a doctor, aged in their early 20s, that it all fell into place. Having struggled to fit in as a little girl, then a young woman, the medic confirmed van Dorst had been born intersex, with aspects of both male and female sex characteristics, and operated on as a baby. It was something their parents had never spoken about.”I never felt like a girl,” they say now.…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s five-year term as Ukraine’s president formally ends on May 20. An election would normally have been held in late March, but the parliament postponed the vote as the country is still at war and under martial law. But a major question remains for Ukrainians: who might succeed Zelenskyy once he leaves office? In early 2024, few politicians and commentators openly pondered who could, or should, follow Zelenskyy. At the end of February, when Zelenskyy looked back on the past two years of fighting with Russia, the president dismissed any talk questioning his legitimacy as a “hostile narrative.” Speaking with journalists, Zelenskyy said…

During the night of April 14, 2014, dozens of fighters from the Boko Haram Islamist militant group stormed a school dormitory for girls in the remote town of Chibok, a small Christian enclave in Nigeria’s majority-Muslim north. The 276 schoolgirls, mostly aged between 16 and 18, were herded at gunpoint through the forest to waiting trucks after the militants set fire to the school buildings. Within hours of the abductions, 57 girls managed to escape. Some hid in the bushes, others jumped out as they drove through the dark night of the Sambisa Forest that had become Boko Haram’s hideout. One…

Ex-armed forces minister James Heappey has told Sky’s defence and security editor Deborah Haynes the UK should consider sending its forces to Ukraine to train troops.On the Sky News Daily, host Tom Cheshire talks to her and Sky’s military analyst Professor Michael Clarke about the interview with Mr Heappey, who stepped down from his role last month.They assess the bleak situation in Ukraine and why the conflict is at a critical stage. They also discuss how prepared the UK would be if it faced a war in the near future.👉 Listen above then tap here to follow the Sky News Daily wherever you get…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves for China on Saturday for a three-day diplomatic visit that includes meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Accompanied by a high-level business delegation, the German leader is expected to address grievances over the trade deficit between the EU common market and the world’s second-largest economy. Scholz is also expected to question China’s ties with Russia amid the Ukraine war and Beijing’s aggressiveness toward Taiwan — a self-ruled island China claims as its own. Scholz is scheduled to meet Xi and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Tuesday, the last day of his trip. This is Scholz’s…

“Adopt this law, we need it urgently. We are defending ourselves with our last ounce of strength,” General Yuriy , commander of the joint forces, said before a vote in the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday. Sodol said there were seven to 10 times more Russian soldiers than there were Ukrainians on the battlefield, and that the Ukrainian army did not have enough troops. Lawmakers heeded his appeal and approved the stricter mobilization rules as put forward by the government at the end of January. The bill will come into force one month after being signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Experts have said…

The family of murdered Muriel McKay say they’ve been given a boost in their campaign to search the farm where they believe her body is buried.Mrs McKay’s grandson Mark Dyer had threatened to sue landowner Ian Marsh for access, but when the two men met on a public footpath that runs through the farmyard, he was invited in for coffee and a chat. Image: Muriel McKay. Pic: Getty Images/Sky UK Businessman Mr Dyer said afterwards: “If the police decide they aren’t going to do a second dig, then I will come and speak to Ian because Ian and I now…

The Biden administration will cancel $7.4 billion (€6.9 billion) in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, the White House said on Friday. It is the latest in a series of debt cancellations, which US President Joe Biden has been keen to highlight with the November presidential election getting ever nearer. The Biden administration has been making fresh declarations on debt relief on a regular basis in recent months, as the president attempts to woo young voters. “From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier toopportunity,” Biden said in…

Israel remains on high alert, with a growing number of media reports indicating that the Islamic Republic is preparing to retaliate for a recent missile barrage on its diplomatic compound in Syria. Iran has accused Israel of carrying out the deadly airstrike, but Israel has so far denied responsibility. Quoting a US intelligence report on Friday, The Wall Street Journal suggested Iran could launch a retaliatory attack within the next 24 to 48 hours. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian conveyed Tehran’s determination to respond to the bombing of its consular building during a phone call with his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, on Thursday. A day earlier, Iran’s…