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The former head of MI6 has said Europe is no longer in a "pre-war situation" with Russia, but "an actual war".Sir Richard Dearlove said it is time "to face up to the fact" that Russia thinks it is in a state of war with the whole of the continent, and has already carried out "very aggressive moves" on certain European countries. Speaking on Sky News' Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge, he disagreed with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's assessment that Europe is in a pre-war era.Ukraine war latest: Follow live updatesSir Richard said: "Donald Tusk has referred to it as a pre-war situation. I think he's wrong. I think it's an actual war. "We've seen already quite clearly some very aggressive moves on the part of the Russians in various European countries."You've had the heads of the intelligen...

Israel's military has said it has fired on "suspects" in southern Lebanon who were allegedly violating its ceasefire with Hezbollah.The Israel Defence Forces said in a statement: "Over the past hour, several suspects were identified arriving with vehicles to a number of areas in southern Lebanon, breaching the conditions of the ceasefire. The IDF opened fire toward them. "The IDF remains in southern Lebanon and will actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement."It comes after Israel and Hezbollah started a 60-day pause in the conflict on Wednesday morning.Israel imposed a last-minute curfew, forbidding any Lebanese citizens from crossing into the south of the country. Israel's Arab spokesperson warned movement south of the Litani River in Lebanon was "absolutely forbidden"."Whoev...

A man who went missing for five weeks in a remote park in the Rocky Mountains has been found alive - after enduring temperatures as low as -20C (-4F).Sam Benastick was reported missing on 19 October after failing to return from a 10-day trip to Redfern-Keily Park in Canada's British Columbia province. Search efforts, led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), were called off in late October with temperatures dropping well below freezing at times.But on Tuesday, two men on their way to work at Redfern Lake saw a man walking towards them and recognised him as Mr Benastick.They took him to a hospital, where police officially identified him as the missing 20-year-old. Corporal Madonna Saunderson, of the British Columbia RCMP communications team, said: "Finding Sam alive is the absolute b...

At least 27 have died after flash floods and landslides hit the north of Indonesia's Sumatra island.Torrential rain started striking North Sumatra province last week, causing flash floods and landslides in four districts, with extreme weather expected through to the end of the year. As of Thursday morning, at least 27 have died as a result of the conditions.Hadi Wahyudi, a North Sumatra police spokesperson, said a landslide in Deli Serdang on Wednesday killed seven and injured 20.Rescuers found 20 people dead in other locations during a search that started over the weekend. Image: Torrential rainfall started hitting Sumatra island last week. Pic: AP Mr Wahyudi said rescue efforts are ongoing and autho...

Hezbollah has vowed to continue its resistance to Israel after the ceasefire came into effect.Brokered by the US and France, the halt to fighting in Lebanon will see both Israeli and Hezbollah forces retreat. Its announcement was met by cheers on the streets of Lebanon, where people quickly began taking to the roads, streaming back to the war-ravaged south of the country.Cars and vans piled high with belongings snaked through parts of Lebanon, heading south.New data reveals impact of war on Lebanese civilians Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 3:20 ...

Three American citizens who had been detained in China for years have been released, Sky's US partner network NBC News reports.Kai Li, Mark Swidan and John Leung will return to the US, reportedly after an agreement was reached as part of sensitive negotiations. It comes after Politico cited an unnamed US official claiming years-long attempts to free the trio have succeeded, in exchange for unidentified Chinese citizens in US custody."We are pleased to announce the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung from detention in the People's Republic of China," a State Department spokesperson said."Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years. "Thanks to this administration's efforts and diplomacy with the PRC [People's Republic of China], all o...

NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost "city" buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War.Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the project and left the camp - which could have expanded to 33 bases - to be slowly lost to the elements.That's until NASA scientist Chad Greene, helped by agency expert Alex Gardner, flew over Greenland in April this year to map ice sheets and estimate future sea level rise."We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," said Mr Gardner, describing how their radar-detecting structures appeared to align with tunnels built in the base. "We...

As residents of southern Lebanon begin returning to neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, new data shared with Sky News illustrates the impact of the conflict.The Centre for Information Resilience has verified more than 400 videos showing 300 separate incidents of harm to civilians and damage to infrastructure in Lebanon.It offers a window into the extent of the destruction since fighting began in October last year. This research is part of a larger set of open-source data showing harm to civilians and damage to infrastructure collected by CIR on and since 7 October last year, covering Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, as well as Lebanon.As of 25 November, fighting had displaced more than 899,000 people in Lebanon and killed nearly 4,000 people, according to the International Organisati...

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is unlikely to last in the long term, according to a former British spy chief.Sir Richard Dearlove - who ran MI6 between 1999 and 2004 - explained his concerns with the recently announced deal in an interview on the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge. As well as the situation in the Middle East, Sir Richard told Sophy that Europe is in a "war situation" with Russia, rather than a pre-war one, and that he believes the deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will collapse.Politics latest: Britain can learn a lesson from TrumpThe ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into force in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday local time.Since it began, people have been streaming back into the southern regions of Lebanon as Israel begins to withdr...

Israel has imposed a last-minute curfew forbidding any Lebanese from crossing into the south of the country.Starting in the early hours of this morning, Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a 60-day pause halting a conflict that has killed thousands in Lebanon and displaced many more. At 2.30pm UK time (4.30pm locally), Israel's Arab spokesperson warned movement south of the Litani River in Lebanon is "absolutely forbidden" - starting in half an hour.Middle East latest as ceasefire begins"Whoever is north of the Litani River is prohibited from moving south. Whoever is south of the Litani River must remain where he is," the statement added."We remind you that the IDF is still deployed in its positions in southern Lebanon in accordance with the terms of the ceasefire agreement, and our forces will...