Michael Drummond
Foreign News Reporter at Sky News
Foreign news reporter for @SkyNews | Formerly @PA I like baseball and going outside.
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21 hours ago |
news.sky.com | Mark Stone |Michael Drummond
Donald Trump has met with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa during his three-nation tour of the Middle East - the first meeting between leaders of the two nations in 25 years. After announcing the lifting of sanctions against Syria on Tuesday night, the US president called for Mr Al Sharaa to sign onto the Abraham Accords with Israel and tell all foreign terrorists to leave the war-torn Middle Eastern country. Image: Mr Trump, Mr Bin Salman and Mr Al Sharaa.
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1 week ago |
manxradio.com | Michael Drummond
The cardinals have assembled in Rome and will soon be locked away in the Sistine Chapel, cut off from the outside world as they debate who should be the next head of the Catholic Church. The rituals of the event are elaborate and date back centuries. So how does the process work? Who is taking part in conclave?
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1 week ago |
islandfm.com | Michael Drummond
In this story, Sky News looks back at what has happened since the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023. The conflict has raged for more than a year and has seen an escalation between Israel and Iran and an open conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. What follows is by no means an exhaustive timeline, but it aims to capture some of the more salient moments in the devastating conflict.
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Michael Drummond
They say it was impossible to escape from alive (with perhaps one famous exception). Now, Donald Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz prison and fill it with America's "most ruthless" criminals. It has been decades since the last inmate was moved out of the island penitentiary, which is now a major tourist hotspot attracting more than a million visitors a year. Image: Alcatraz Island is in San Francisco Bay, with the Golden Gate Bridge not far away.
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Michael Drummond
"My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union," Gary says. "As a kid I thought it was normal, everybody's dad goes through this."In the thick of the Cold War an American spy plane flew over Russian missile sites, taking pictures for the CIA. The US thought that at 70,000 feet their U-2 aircraft was beyond the reach of Soviet air defences. They were wrong.
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