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One person has died and 10 others have been injured after a cable car cabin collided with a pole and burst open in Turkey.Passengers were sent plummeting to the ground below after the Tunektepe cable car crashed at around 6pm local time on Friday in the popular tourist city of Antalya.A further 184 passengers were stranded in 24 cabins that were suspended dozens of feet in the air as a huge rescue effort began, Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey’s interior minister, said.Helicopters, mountain rescue teams and 160 emergency workers were involved in the evacuation, which was ongoing into the early hours of…

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 House said the threat of an imminent attack on Israel is real and viable, while at least three other countries have updated their travel advice, including France, Russia and India.As Mr Biden pledges the US is “devoted” to Israel’s defence, an official has told Sky News “additional…

Former US diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha led a double life spanning decades. While working for the US government, he also served as a spy for Cuba. Rocha was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent and will pay a $500,000  (€469,000) fine. He is also required as part of a deal with prosecutors to disclose details of his cooperation with Cuban intelligence. The US Justice Department called it “one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the US government.” What Rocha did as a spy for Cuba Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested six months…

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…