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'Crimes are going unpunished': Blunt admission from inside government that police are unequipped
Local police forces are not equipped to fight crime, government sources have told Sky News, with thousands of officers pulled off the street into desk jobs in the past decade.
Fighting erupts near prisons holding IS extremists one day after ceasefire agreed
Fighting has broken out between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), just a day after a ceasefire was announced by the country's state media.
Ministers to launch consultation on banning under-16s from social media
Ministers are launching a consultation on banning under-16s from social media after coming under pressure from dozens of their own backbench MPs.
It's his biggest case against newspapers and the stakes are high for Harry and the Daily Mail
He's spent years fighting the tabloids, but arriving at the High Court was a moment Prince Harry wanted the cameras to capture.
Chief constable referred to police watchdog over Israeli fan ban
The former chief constable of West Midlands Police (WMP) will be investigated over a decision to ban Israeli fans from a Europa League match in Birmingham.
'I don't know how to tell my child why he has to live in this prison'
A mother has told Sky News how her home has become a "prison" which forced her eight-year-old son to move out - after 25,000 tonnes of illegally dumped waste burned for nine days last year.
Gunmen abduct more than 150 Christians in mass kidnapping
Armed bandits have kidnapped more than 150 Christians in simultaneous attacks on a number of churches in Nigeria.
What may have caused deadly train crash in Spain - and why it's been described as 'truly strange'
A faulty rail joint may be key to understanding the cause of one of Spain's deadliest railway disasters in years, experts have said.
Publisher accused of 'wrecking lives', as string of high-profile figures mentioned in court
Prince Harry has personally attended the first day of his trial against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) at the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London.
Trump to take advantage of deal-making paradise in Davos following Greenland threat
This time last year Donald Trump was beamed into Davos from Washington to deliver a virtual address that put business and political leaders on notice; the free-trading, liberal economic model, reaffirmed and celebrated every January at the World Economic Forum, was over.

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