Category: Sky News
Afghanistan Endgame: Face to face with the Taliban
Sky News reports exclusively from behind Taliban lines as the Islamist movement secures victory after victory across Afghanistan. Their advance comes twenty years after American [more…]
Afghanistan Endgame: Afghan army are now the last line of defence
After almost two decades of war, the foreign allies are now withdrawing their troops and leaving the Afghan army to be the new last line [more…]
Data Dive: New COVID hotspots revealed
England’s data showed an increase again for cases per person in the North East while cases in the east of England continued to remain low. [more…]
The Met Office releases its first ‘extreme heat’ warning
The Met Office issues its first extreme heat warning, and what can be done to better protect communities from extreme weather? And the Tokyo Olympic [more…]
The Data Dive: Is the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine programme really ‘world beating’?
Sky News’ Ed Conway takes a closer look at the UK’s vaccine programme against COVID-19, and the difference it’s made to the course of the [more…]
The Big Thaw: Russia’s disappearing permafrost
Expanses of Russia’s permafrost in the Arctic Circle is thawing – revealing fascinating prehistoric artefacts but also releasing carbon into the atmosphere in the form [more…]
‘Glimmer of good news’ on COVID case numbers
The number of COVID cases announced in the UK has fallen for three successive days – but the effect of lifting most restrictions in England [more…]
Turkey Wildfires: An eyewitness account
Wildfires continue to rage across parts of southern Turkey. At least eight people have died and whole villages and beach resorts are being evacuated. Sky’s [more…]
Special report: Turkey’s firefighters battle more forest blazes
In a special programme on the wildfires burning across large parts of the Mediterranean, Sky’s Alex Crawford reports from the scene of a blaze in [more…]
Belarus President Lukashenko: ‘You can choke on those sanctions in the UK’
The UK has imposed fresh sanctions on Belarus, on the first anniversary of President Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed victory in the country’s election. The President was [more…]