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The final UK evacuation flight from Sudan departed from the Wadi Saeedna airfield near Khartoum at 10pm local time on Saturday, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said. A statement on the Government’s foreign travel advice for Sudan website said: “The UK Government is no longer running evacuation flights from Wadi Saeedna airfield. “The

The final Britons scrambling to leave Sudan departed from the war-torn country on Saturday as the Government closed down its airbridge indefinitely. Around 1,573 UK nationals were evacuated on 13 flights since the plan began to extract people a week ago, although thousands of people could have been left out of the programme. It comes

Vladimir Putin has been branded a “cannibal” by the Ukrainian authorities after Russian missile strikes killed at least 23 civilians – including a two-year-old girl. The Russian President ordered his latest attack in a likely attempt to step up pressure on Kyiv amid reports that Ukrainian forces are running out of ammunition. As a result,

Huge flames have been spotted in the city of Sevastopol in Russian-held Crimea after a suspected drone strike caused a fuel tank to catch fire in the port city. The Kremlin-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, believes that a Ukrainian attack caused the fuel depot to go up in flames. The Ukrainian military has not

A man brandishing a bow and arrow tried to kill a teenager in an Aldi supermarket. Armed with a compound bow, two knives and three sledgehammers, Benjamin Jeremy Bourke hunted down the young girl “like an animal” in Booval, west Brisbane, Australia. The vile 28-year-old pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of the teenager, who can’t be

Vladimir Putin has cancelled the annual Russian International Army Games, dubbed the “War Olympics”, over concerns he would be criticised by his allies. According to the UK Ministry of Defence, the Russian leader is also worried about shortages of tanks to display against other countries at the games, given they will be in use at war

An evacuation plane from Turkey was shot as it landed in Khartoum, the capital of war-torn Sudan, despite a supposed ceasefire. Paramilitary forces injured a crew member and damaged the fuel supply. The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fired at the aircraft landing on the Wadi Saeedna airbase. Despite the attack the plane did

British artist George Butler has been given incredible access to the secret Ukrainian factory where captured or abandoned enemy tanks and armoured vehicles are repurposed and sent back into action against its former owners In a secret facility in a sprawling light industrial estate on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukrainian mechanics are working feverishly to

Analysis by Liana Fix, a Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, and colleague Michael Kimmage, a professor of history at the Catholic University of America, demonstrated three key ways in which China is more invested in the Ukraine war than they previously claimed to be. Many commentators argue that China hold the

Scientists believe that extraterrestrial life could make contact with Earth by 2029. The findings are based on calculations made by communicating with some of the planet’s most distant probes that were sent up into space years ago. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 and continue to travel through interstellar space, while Pioneer

Britons looking to flee Sudan have been told there’s no guarantee of additional evacuation flights from the war-torn country. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said the UK “cannot guarantee” how many further evacuation flights will depart once the 72-hour ceasefire in Sudan expires on Thursday night. The warning comes as British families who have managed

The area is similarly close to Norway, with the village of Svanvik 155 miles to Murmansk’s west. The incident came just hours after Russian and Chinese officials descended on the region’s capital, also named Murmansk, to sign a memorandum strengthening cooperation between governmental agencies. The two parties signed the memorandum in the early hours of

British and German fighter jets intercepted a Russian spy plane and two fighter aircraft over the Baltic Sea, marking another tense encounter between Russia and the West. The German air force reported that Eurofighter planes were deployed by both countries to identify the Russian planes, which included two Sukhoi Su-27 fighters and one Ilyushin Il-20

James Cleverly has warned that any invasion of Taiwan by China would have global consequences. The UK’s Foreign Secretary said such a move would destroy world trade, in a keynote address to the Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet in London on Tuesday (April 25). He broke from tradition by dedicating the speech – which foreign secretaries

Russian officials, including Putin, have often reacted furiously to Western support by issuing thinly veiled nuclear threats. Putin has even set in motion plans to station Russian nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus. Last month, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov made similar comments surrounding nuclear weapons. He warned that the United States and NATO were

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has announced that UK Government will support the departure of British passport holders from Sudan. Ahead of the rescue mission, an elite SAS rescue team arrived in the conflict-stricken country on Sunday evening (April 24 – just as a ceasefire was being announced. The Foreign Secretary announced the start of the evacuation

This is the moment a woman shares her hair journey after travelling all the way to Turkey for a “cheaper” cut and dye job. A social media star shared her experience in the Turkish hair salon on TikTok and received a wave of support from her followers, with many praising her hair transformation. Beauty enthusiast

A 45-year-old woman died in horror scenes on the Paris Metro in France this weekend. According to French reports, the passenger disembarked the train on Saturday “in a hurry” shortly after 4pm. Initial investigations claimed that her coat became trapped in the door when they automatically closed. As the carriage resumed its journey, the victim

Ukraine’s troops have managed to cross the Dnipro River in the south of the country for the first time since the Russian invasion began, according to conflict analysts. Speculation continues to mount over Ukraine‘s long-awaited spring offensive aimed at pushing 100 miles south of the river at least as far as annexed Crimea. This breakthrough

A senior naval commander has reportedly been fired by Vladimir Putin after refusing to commit more of his men to the slaughter in Ukraine. Admiral Sergei Avakyants, 66, was the commander of Russia‘s Pacific Fleet before being summarily dismissed from his post last week. He was attending war games involving nuclear bombers, when he received