All news by author: Chris Hughes

Kosta Kecmanovic, a 13-year-old student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school, has been arrested for murder after stealing his dad's gun and opening fire on his peers and teacher this morning during class in Belgrade, Serbia

The extra rescue missions left Port Sudan after UK citizens faced a noon deadline to complete a dangerous 500-mile drive from Khartoum

Ukrainian cities including Kyiv were targeted by 23 cruise missiles and two suicide drones. The strikes killed at least 19 people and wounded many others

Some 250 Britons arrived at London Stansted Airport having flown from the capital Khartoum via Larnaca in Cyprus, including one dad pictured boarding holding his two girls’ hands

Earlier this month, chaos broke out as the Sudanese army and rebel Rapid Support Forces clashed with heavy bombing and gunfights breaking out in Khartoum

Thousands of Brits in Sudan remain unable to return to the UK as the country is ravaged by civil war, with fears they risk being killed if they leave home in search for food

The secret maritime programme involves civilian shipping and a murky underwater warfare programme to try and cut off Europe if the Ukraine war spreads

Anne Keast-Butler, who has spent 30 years in national security, will take over as head of the British listening station in Cheltenham, Glos, next month

Veterans who served during the Troubles told how they fear a return to terrorism, and police warned of new dissident threats over the Easter period

Two sisters, one aged 15 and the other in her 20s, were killed when their car was attacked on Friday near the Hamra settlement, about 30 miles north of Jerusalem. Their mother was seriously injured

The Centre For Paediatric Blast Injury Studies, a partnership between Imperial College London and Save the Children, brings together world experts and leading technology to support victims

A total of 17 youngsters were snatched by Vladimir Putin's forces and hauled off to Russia-held Crimea after being told by their cruel captors that their families had abandoned them

China's President Xi complimented Vladimir Putin on his first trip since being re-elected this month, with the two leaders reaffirming their friendship, shaking hands and toasting each other

The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false

Two Russian Su-27 Flanker jets downed an unmanned US Reaper drone operating over the Black Sea - officials from both countries have conflicting accounts of the collision

The MQ9 Reaper drone was hoovering up information on Moscow’s forces in the east of Ukraine and off the coast when the Russian pilots are said to have dumped fuel on it in mid-air

Veteran Baz Melia, a retired British Army Colonel, has called for more to be done to stop UK soldiers committing suicide after leaving the military after 22 have killed themselves in his army regiment

The schoolbooks are being altered to include a positive outlook on the full-scale invasion, avoiding the mention of Russia's humiliating battlefield performances, focusing instead on the eastern region of Donbas

Salman Abedi had been on MI5’s radar aged 15 and had been to Libya several times - nobody in the UK security system will be blaming themselves more than those in MI5 who failed, writes Chris Hughes

Russian forces are resorting to "mass suicidal attacks" on Ukrainians, effectively sending hundreds of soldiers over the frontline for minimal military gains but as a massive cost in Russian lives

Ukrainians are being waterboarde, electrocuted and viciously beaten in torture chambers that war crimes lawyers say are 'funded by Vladimir Putin's credit card'

Ukraine has remained defiant amid a further round of punishing bombardment, while Russian units complain of being sent into battle without proper technical and artillery support

Yula Patoku had no idea just who she was talking to as she chatted to the man creating the piece, which shows a small child throwing a man in a martial arts fight

The Daily Mirror's Defence and Security Editor travelled to two of the worst hit towns north of Kyiv and saw wrecked and devastated communities still coming to terms with 12 months of violence

Air raid sirens were tested and Kyiv's bomb shelters were prepared for a major bombardment of cruise missiles and drones, ahead of the anniversary of Russian's invasion of Ukraine