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The Kremlin has praised Donald Trump after he criticised Ukraine's use of US-supplied weapons for attacks deep in Russian territory.Western allies have provided Ukraine with air defence systems to help it protect critical infrastructure, but Russia has sought to overwhelm the air defences with combined strikes involving big numbers of missiles and drones. "It's crazy what's taking place. It's crazy. I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? We're just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done," Mr Trump said in an interview with Time magazine.The Kremlin on Friday said his stance was fully in line with Moscow's own position.Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Mr Trump's comments were...

An international charity which has rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea says it will stop using its rescue boat because new Italian laws "have made it impossible to continue".Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - also known as Doctors Without Borders - has been using the Geo Barents vessel since June 2021 on a succession of operations. Last year, Sky News was on board when its crew rescued more than 600 people who had been crammed together on an old fishing boat.It was the biggest rescue the charity had carried out and our report prompted fresh debate about dangerous migration routes among politicians in the UK and across the EU. Image: A young injured man pictured last year being lifted onto the vessel with a sling ...

Children are among the dead after an Israeli airstrike on a block of flats in a Gaza refugee camp killed at least 33 people, according to Hamas-run health authorities.The attack - which Israel said targeted a "senior terrorist" but may have caused a secondary blast - came hours after the US national security adviser raised hopes of a ceasefire deal.More than 80 people are said to be missing after the attack in Nuseirat camp on Thursday night.Syria latest: Prison boss charged with torturePalestinian medics also reported more than 40 people, most of them children, were receiving treatment at two hospitals, according to the Reuters news agency.Images from the scene show a collapsed building, which Reuters reports was a post office used as a shelter.The al Aqsa Hospital said the attack also da...

Fourteen North Korean nationals have been accused of using false identities to get IT jobs with US companies and siphon money back to their communist country.The practice, if proven, is in violation of US sanctions against the restrictive nation. An indictment filed in a federal court in Missouri alleges that $88m (£70m) was generated for the North Korean government between April 2017 and March 2023.Some of the revenue was used to support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) weapons programmes, according to government departments including the FBI.The workers "misrepresent themselves" as foreign or US-based teleworkers, the indictment said. Image: Pic: FBI Ashley T Johnson, special agent in charge of the FBI ...

A British hedge funder trader has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark over a £1bn tax fraud. Sanjay Shah, 54, was behind a trading scheme known as "cum-ex" that was found to have fraudulently secured 9bn Danish Krone (£1bn) in dividend tax refunds from the Danish treasury between 2012 and 2015. Shah, who appeared in court wearing a red Christmas hat, denied any wrongdoing, arguing he used a legal loophole and immediately appealed the guilty verdict to the Danish High Court.Prosecutors sought the maximum 12-year sentence, which is one of the longest for tax fraud in the country's history.Shah was arrested in Dubai in 2022 and extradited to Denmark the following year to face prosecution. Prosecutors said investors, directed by Shah's London-based hedge fund Solo Capital Partners,...