Over 2,000 Confirmed Dead In Afghan Landslide

More than 2,000 people are feared dead in a landslide in Afghanistan after part of a hill above a village collapsed. The community, in Badakhshan province which borders Tajikistan in the country's northeast, has been buried in more than 300ft of mud...

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Ukraine Observers Freed Amid New Offensive

Military observers kept prisoner in Ukraine for more than a week have been released as bloody clashes in the country show no sign of letting up. The seven observers and their five assistants, from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe,...

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US And Germany United In Russia Warning

Germany and the US appear to have hardened their line on potential sanctions on Russia. This is surprising and raises the stakes for what happens in the region. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack Obama both set a new threshold for...

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Far-Right Dutch MP Seeks Tie-In With UKIP

By Robert Nisbet, Europe Correspondent A Dutch MP who leads a far-right party in the Netherlands has said he hopes to join forces with UKIP and Marine Le Pen's Front Nationale in the European Parliament. Geert Wilders, founder of the Dutch Party...

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India Election Sees Fatal Shootings In Assam

By Neville Lazarus, India Producer Election violence has claimed the lives of at least 30 people within 24 hours in India's remote northeastern state of Assam. The killing of Bengali-speaking Muslims by tribal separatists has caused hundreds to...

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Ukraine In Military Assault On Slavyansk

Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed after pro-Russian forces shot down helicopters during the first major government offensive in the east of Ukraine. A spokeswoman for the pro-Russian militants also said one of their men was killed and another...

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British Fighters Filmed In Syria 'War Crime'

By Tom Rayner, Middle East Reporter Video has emerged implicating British fighters in Syria in an apparent war crime. Footage uncovered by researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) shows jihadist rebels killing...

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North Korean Defectors' Harrowing Stories

By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent In a series of rare and harrowing interviews, defectors have told Sky News of their horrific lives inside North Korea and their extraordinary journeys to escape the country. The men and women agreed to talk from...

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Al Qaeda Boss Orders End To Jihadist Infighting

Al Qaeda's chief has called on members of the group's Syrian affiliate, the al Nusra Front, to stop fighting with their jihadist rivals. In an audiotape posted online, Ayman al Zawahiri ordered "all soldiers of the front immediately cease fighting"...

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Thousands Missing As Landslide Buries Village

As many as 2,000 people are missing after a landslide buried part of a village in Afghanistan, according to officials. Three hundred homes in the village of Hobo Barik were buried after heavy rains caused part of a hill to collapse at around 1pm...

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Florida Jail Gas Blast Kills 2 And Injures 100

A gas explosion at a Florida jail has killed two people and left up to 150 inmates and corrections officers hurt. Escambia County jail's booking facility building was almost entirely destroyed in the blast, which happened at around 11pm local time...

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Video Shows Students Joking Before Ferry Sank

A video from the mobile phone of one of the victims of the South Korean ferry disaster has revealed students were joking about "becoming the Titanic" before the ship sank. It shows students struggling to put on life jackets as the Sewol begins to list...

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Oil Train In Fiery Derailment In Virginia

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes after an oil train derailed and caught fire near a city centre in the US state of Virginia. A black pall of smoke drifted over central Lynchburg after Wednesday's incident involving up to 14 carriages....

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Festivity And Fighting As World Marks May Day

Rallies have been taking place around the work to mark May Day, with some demonstrations descending into violent clashes. To mark the day, which traditionally celebrates the coming of spring and acknowledges the world's workers, people paraded in Russia's...

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Ukraine: Conscription Amid Violent Protests

Ukraine Mine: Militia Controls Million Weapons Updated: 11:37pm UK, Wednesday 30 April 2014 By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, in Ukraine At the end of a completely anonymous road on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Artemivsk...

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Minnesota Homeowner Guilty of Teen Murders

A US homeowner who shot and killed two teenagers, calling them "vermin" after they broke into his house in Minnesota, has been convicted of their murders. Byron Smith shot unarmed cousins Haile Kifer, 18, and Nick Brady, 17, a total of nine times as...

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India: Burning Man Hugs Politician On TV Show

An Indian politician has suffered horrific burns after he was grabbed by a man who set himself on fire during a TV election debate. Kamruzzama Fauji was taking part in the show in Sultanpur, in Uttar Pradesh state, when an audience member doused...

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Syria's Assad Finds Chemical Weapons Loophole

President Bashar Assad appears to have found a loophole in an international deal designed to stop him gassing his own people. In September last year, an alleged sarin gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta led to an agreement with the international...

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IMF: Ukraine Crisis Sparks Russia 'Recession'

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Russia is already in recession as a result of the effects of the crisis in Ukraine. An economist working for the organisation, Antonio Spilimbergo, made the comment while confirming a huge downgrade in...

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Ukraine On Full Combat Alert Over 'Invasion'

Ukraine's military is "on full combat alert" over a possible invasion by Russian troops massed on the border, Kiev's acting leader has said. Interim president Oleksandr Turchynov told a ministerial meeting: "Our armed forces are on full combat...

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John Kerry Denies 'Apartheid Israel' Comment

Kerry's Double-Edged Apartheid Apology Updated: 2:29pm UK, Tuesday 29 April 2014 By Tom Rayner, Middle East News Editor After all the shuttle diplomacy, US Secretary of State John Kerry's unintentional slip of the tongue probably felt like a gaffe....

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Ukraine: US And Nato Build-Up 'Worries' Russia

Who's Who On Latest Sanctions US And EU List Updated: 11:00am UK, Tuesday 29 April 2014 The US has targeted seven of President Vladimir Putin's "cronies" in a new round of sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. The Russian and Ukrainian individuals have...

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South Korean President Sorry For Ferry Response

South Korea's president has apologised for her government's "insufficient" response to the ferry disaster. While 204 people - most of them schoolchildren - have been confirmed dead, nearly 100 passengers are still missing after the Sewol sank on April...

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John Kerry's Double-Edged 'Apartheid' Apology

By Tom Rayner, Middle East News Editor After all the shuttle diplomacy, US Secretary of State John Kerry's unintentional slip of the tongue probably felt like a gaffe. In the Middle East, words are weapons - and Mr Kerry left his safety catch off....

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Plane On Fire Over Oz City Caught On Camera

A plane passenger watched in horror as he filmed one of the jet's wings on fire as he and more than 90 others flew over the city of Perth in Australia. The flight had left Perth Airport and was heading towards Barrow Island when passengers spotted sparks...

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