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2 months ago | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons |Siobhan Robbins
Key pointsVoters across Germany are heading to the polls for a federal electionPolls close at 5pm UK time - with exit poll released immediately afterAll eyes are on the far-right AfD party's performanceFormer chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party is likely to win, under leader Friedrich MerzLive reporting by Ollie Cooper, with Europe correspondentsAdam ParsonsandSiobhan Robbinsin GermanyThe election explainedWho are the main parties? The key issues in this electionWhen should we expect a result?
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2 months ago | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons |Sophie Garratt
Warning: This article contains references to suicide and material readers might find disturbingEvery year, on his birthday, Joel Le Scouarnec composed an entry in his diary. First, he would record his age. Then he would write: "I am a paedophile, and I am proud of it."To the rest of the world, he seemed like a respected medical professional, a surgeon who cared for thousands of patients and provided support to their relatives.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
They laughed, chatted like friends and agreed on just about everything. If there was any doubt that Elon Musk's heart lies on the far right of German politics, that disappeared during this conversation. Musk was unequivocal in his support. "I am strongly recommending that the people of Germany vote for AfD," he said. "This is simply the sensible move.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
So can you stop people smugglers by lumbering them with sanctions? That is the government's latest idea, and it is bold and innovative. It will certainly get attention, even if that doesn't mean it will work. But it is another effort by this government to differentiate itself from the leaders who came before.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
Jean-Marie Le Pen was variously loved and loathed - but he changed the shape of modern French politics. His youth was shaped by war and he then lived a life of constant battles. Mr Le Pen's political career, which was a very long one, was all about belligerence, anger, regret and scapegoats. In his world, everything that had gone wrong could be blamed on someone else. Mostly, his targets were either migrants or Muslims, or ideally migrants who were also Muslims.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
The resonance of the name Charlie Hebdo still rings loudly, a decade after the horrific attack on its offices. But the questions it raised have still not been answered. That day, twelve people were killed, eight of them members of the magazine's staff, when a pair of terrorists stormed into the offices, in central Paris, and opened fire with assault rifles. Eleven others were injured.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
Levan is sitting in his very old car smiling at us through the snow, his eyes twinkling, amused by our discomfort. Not many people come to visit this corner of Georgia, and today the snow is billowing around us. It is biting cold and there is a large stray dog staring at us with a slight air of menace. Welcome to Brotsleti. We are just a few kilometres from one of the most significant borders in continental Europe.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
As we walk down, the ramp is slippery underfoot. It would be easy to fall, to tumble towards the mud and water. Three weeks after this town was ravaged by floodwater, Catarroja is still clearing up, and still haunted by the ghosts of its worst night. Around us, the mood is sombre. There are people in white hazmat suits, splattered with mud, their faces covered by masks. They emerge from the murky darkness, the light reflecting off their outfits.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
news.sky.com | Adam Parsons
The story of these floods has been full of grim, unsettling images. Now there is another one - the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia. Today, it was an awful place. Not because of the immense damage wrought by the floods, but because of the horror that may lie ahead. The emergency services are pumping out the underground car park that lies beneath this retail complex, one of the biggest in the country, and they don't know what they will find. There will be bodies - that seems sure.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
news.sky.com | Faye Brown |Adam Parsons
Lammy: There may well be foreign leaders behind people trafficking The foreign secretary is speaking to Sky News to tout his new "world first" sanctions regime to choke off illicit finance to the people-smuggling gangs that operate small boats across the Channel. David Lammy tells us that it's not just the Home Office that should be tackling this problem, saying the Foreign Office "does play a role".
