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Donald Trump has thrown fresh doubt over a planned US summit with North Korea next month, saying “we’ll have to see”. The US President’s comments came after North Korea threatened to pull out of the first ever summit with the US, planned for 12 June in Singapore.The North said it has no interest in a summit based on “one-sided” demands to give up its nuclear weapons.Mr Trump said whatever happens, he will still insist on the denuclearisation of North Korea.Speaking at the White House at a meeting with the president of Uzbekistan, he said the US has not “heard anything”…

Deliveroo, the food delivery service which is a leading member of Britain’s ‘gig economy’, is to hand staff a £10m share pot in a move towards an eventual public listing. Sky News has learnt that Will Shu, Deliveroo’s founder, told employees last week that permanent workers would be handed stock options worth an average of £5,000 during the coming months.Deliveroo’s army of delivery riders, who are classed as self-employed contractors rather than permanent employees, will not share in the windfall.A source said the company’s nearly 2,000 staff would be allowed to redeem their options “when it goes public or in…

North Korea has said it has no interest in meeting the US if their summit is based on “one-sided” demands to give up nuclear weapons. First vice foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan said that if the US “corners us and unilaterally demands we give up nuclear weapons we will no longer have an interest in talks and will have to reconsider whether we will accept the upcoming DPRK-US summit”.The US-North Korea summit, a historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, is scheduled for 12 June in Singapore.But it now looks to be under threat,…

People who have their body clock disrupted by being awake at night risk developing mood disorders and depression. That is the finding from a study of more than 90,000 people by scientists at the University of Glasgow.The scientists examined people’s circadian rhythms, which control functions such as sleep patterns, immune systems and the release of hormones, to measure daily rest-activity rhythms, also known as relative amplitude.People with lower relative amplitude were at greater risk of mental health problems such as depression and bipolar disorder.They are also likely to feel less happy and more lonely, the study found.Dr Laura Lyall, the…

Guernsey’s Parliament is to vote on whether to allow assisted dying. It will follow a two-day debate by the Channel Island’s 40 deputies.The subject is close to the heart of Martin McIntyre, a 56-year-old retired civil servant, originally from Croydon, who has lived in Guernsey for the last two decades and was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer a year ago.He knows he’ll be dead long before any euthanasia law can help him, but he wants those who come after to have the choice he does not. Image: Martin McIntyre has terminal cancer He told Sky News: “I might just go…

MPs have demanded an overhaul of corporate oversight while blaming Carillion’s board, auditors and regulators for the construction company’s spectacular collapse. A joint inquiry by two Commons select committees concluded no-one stopped directors “stuffing their mouths with gold” for years before it went into liquidation in January with debts of up to £7bn, including £2.6bn in pension liabilities.The MPs called for the Government to launch an ambitious and wide-ranging overhaul of corporate accountability, finding that successive administrations allowed Carillion to become a “giant and unsustainable corporate time bomb”. 3:12 Video: Carillion bosses apologise to MPs for firm’s collapse In their…

We had been invited into the closed military zone on Israel’s border with Gaza border. After fierce criticism of its gunning down of Palestinian protesters this week, Israel’s military wanted to tell its side of the story.From our military jeep we could see earthworks thrown up by Israeli sappers to protect their forces.Atop them, covered by canvas, sniper nests are dug into the sand.We were taken to the site of an ambush.Six Hamas fighters, we were told, fired on an Israeli jeep through the fence, under cover of the protests. Image: Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired…

Meghan’s Markle’s father will not walk her down the aisle as he is due to have heart surgery on Wednesday, a US report said. Thomas Markle said he will go into surgery at 7.30am in Mexico, where he lives, after he reportedly suffered from a heart attack last week.He will not be able to travel to England for his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday in Windsor, celebrity website TMZ said.His absence most likely means that his ex-wife, Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, will walk their daughter down the aisle at St George’s chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle.Mr…

England fans travelling to next month’s World Cup in Russia have been told to expect “off-the-scale” levels of military-style police at the tournament. The Three Lions’ opening game against Tunisia takes place in Volgograd – formerly Stalingrad – and supporters have been warned not to display flags on sensitive World War Two memorials or to provoke locals by singing inflammatory songs.Only one of England’s Group G games has sold out so far and fewer than 10,000 fans are expected to travel.”We wouldn’t expect people to come across to this country, get drunk and drape flags on the Cenotaph so we…

Throughout the day Gaza has been burying its dead after yesterday’s bloody protests on the border. Across the strip the sense of desolation was palpable.A general strike meant most of the streets were empty, with people staying indoors.But neighbourhoods were not quiet: muezzins called out from the minarets, demanding people to remember the martyrs who were killed by Israeli snipers.I went inside one mosque – it was a portrait of grief.:: Israeli bullets didn’t seem to frighten any Gazans – even children Image: Yazan’s friend, Mohammed Abu El Ameen, was shot in the eye by an Israeli sniper Friends and…