Cordelia Lynch
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Turkey earthquake: Anger grows over building standards in wake of deadly disaster
President of Adana Chamber of Architects, Sedat Gul, says local administrations like municipalities and contractors in Turkey 'have cut corners and tried to make money'. → Read More
They fled war in Syria for the safety of Turkey
Syrian refugees in Turkey face a difficult choice - stay in devastated Turkey even though many have lost their families in the recent quakes, or return to Syria, which continues to struggle with war and a lack of humanitarian aid. → Read More
Turkey earthquake: Teacher rescued after 200 hours under rubble
Emine Akgul, 26, was rescued from a collapsed building. Also, eight-month-old Birce is alive and recovering with her mother by her side. Her leg is broken but doctors believe Birce will make a full recovery. → Read More
Imran Khan 'assassination attempt': Sky reporter on scene as former Pakistan PM is shot in leg
Sky's Asia correspondent Cordelia Lynch was at the scene where a gunman opened fire while Imran Khan, 70, was giving a speech to supporters at a rally in Wazirabad in Punjab province, wounding him and some of his supporters, officials said. → Read More
Seoul stampede: Remnants of panic fill the street where celebration became a national tragedy
Eyewitnesses have described seeing people topple like dominoes, partygoers struggling to escape, and emergency services struggling to reach them. → Read More
'They can hardly walk, hardly breathe': Parents of child victims of Thailand's pre-school attack face the unfaceable
Through nursery windows punctured by bullet holes, milk bottles sit half empty, waiting for the children to finish them. They won't ever be drunk. One man's murderous rampage saw to that. It left a community utterly destroyed. → Read More
Thailand survivor's mum says she fainted when she saw nursery horror as son stabbed in the head and shot twice
Joy's son has had two bullets removed from his head; she keeps going over their last conversation before the attack when he begged her not to go to school. → Read More
Australian PM says he will not hold republic referendum during his first term out of 'deep respect' for Queen
Anthony Albanese has said in his opinion this period was a "time to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II" and to show "deep respect and admiration", not to pursue "questions about our constitution". → Read More
Meeting the Queen was 'the most nervous moment of my life', says Australia's former PM
Scott Morrison recalled how he and his wife had been trying to prepare for the occasion - and how the Queen "just made us at home in an instant". → Read More
'No one came here to help': Pakistan's massive floods reveal the cost of global apathy
There are no aid trucks, no planes dropping supplies. But the villagers worry that, if they leave, there won't be any food or shelter anywhere else. → Read More
Climate change: 'Environmental racism' in Detroit's 'most polluted' neighbourhood
There are more than two dozen pollutant-producing facilities owned by multiple companies scattered in and around the area. → Read More
COVID-19: US Congress passes 'historic' and 'transformative' coronavirus relief bill
Most Americans will get $1,400 (£1,000) in payments, and emergency $300 weekly unemployment benefits will stay until September. → Read More
Followers of 'doomsday cult' QAnon believe Donald Trump will retake power today
Washington is on high alert and police have requested that thousands of National Guard troops remain in the capital. → Read More
COVID-19 Deaths are down and infection rates are falling, but US is far from out of the woods
America is far from out of the woods with COVID-19. → Read More
The path is now clear for Donald Trump to run for president again... but will he?
A close friend says he's convinced he won't in the end, but will probably tease us with headlines about it for a couple of years. → Read More
'More violence' if Biden doesn't listen, says Proud Boys leader
Listening and understanding people's rage may be the key to starting to repair the distrust many Americans have. → Read More
Divided America needs Joe Biden's inauguration to be an uneventful event
What Joe Biden needs is an event without danger and - while America needs some healing calm and perhaps, just an uneventful event. → Read More
Four years of Donald Trump
Sky's US correspondent Cordelia Lynch says covering President Trump has been like "drinking from a firehose filled with mercury". → Read More
Joe Biden's presidential victory confirmed by electoral college votes
California, the most populous state, delivered its 55 electoral votes to Mr Biden on Monday afternoon. → Read More
US election 2020: Trump claims it's 'the big one' but Texas election lawsuit looks doomed to failure
The lone star state is trying to exclude four other states won by Joe Biden from the Electoral College vote on Monday. → Read More