All news for 2024-11-27

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Suspect arrested in cross-border Balkan drug smuggling investigation
Authorities in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia collaborate in a Europol-backed operation targeting an organized criminal group accused of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe. One suspect has been arrested, with more arrests expected.
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UK imposes record sanctions to cripple Russia’s war effort
Britain has sanctioned 30 vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet in its largest-ever crackdown, cutting off oil revenues that fund the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
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Real estate deal with royal raises questions about drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale’s business in Dubai
Imperiale, who lived freely in Dubai for years despite being wanted for drug trafficking in Italy and Spain, was a shareholder in a real estate company that built luxury villas in the Emirati city-state.
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£5,000,000 stately home, once owned by a historic British record holder, burned to the ground
A £5million stately home that that used to belong to the British land speed record holder has burned to the ground.
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Son of Norway’s crown princess released from custody amid rape allegations
Marius Borg Hoiby has denied the claims, according to reports.
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YouTuber dies in a freak snowstorm while filming a video in the remote Swedish wilderness
A YouTuber froze to death in a Swedish snowstorm while making a video in the remote wilderness.
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Mohamed al-Fayed’s daughter acquitted of stealing her brother’s £1900 iPhone
Camilla Fayed was accused of robbing her brother’s £1900 iPhone in the gym of their family’s estate, Barrow Green Court, in Surrey, back in May 2020.
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Hezbollah continues to count its dead and faces a long road to recovery from the war
With the bodies of its fighters still strewn on the battlefield, Hezbollah must bury its dead and provide succour to its supporters who bore the brunt of Israel’s offensive, as the first steps on a long and costly road to recovery, four senior officials said.
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Grave exhumed near the Northern Ireland border in search for IRA ’disappeared’
Search for Joe Lynskey, who was murdered and secretly buried by IRA in 1972, takes place in County Monaghan
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X attempts to prevent the transfer of the platform’s InfoWars accounts to the Onion
Social network says it must give permission for accounts to be sold or transferred after sale of rightwing InfoWars
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Nearly ten members of Trump’s team received bomb threats at their family homes
’Several’ members of Donald Trump’s top team have been targeted with bomb threats at their home addresses, a Trump spokesperson has said.
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Baby boy fighting for his life after being found injured and unresponsive at home, with a man and woman charged
A baby boy is fighting for his life after being found injured and unresponsive at home. Police rushed to a house in Seacombe, Wirral, on Sunday following reports of concern for a child.
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South Korean leader calls for action over North Korean troops spotted in Russia
President Yoon Suk Yeol met with a Ukrainian delegation as the North Korean troop deployment threatens to expand the war.
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Russian businessman Boris Usherovich has returned to Putin’s favor through multi-billion-dollar sanction-evasion schemes and is quietly residing in the UK
The year is 2019, two years before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the neighboring aggressor country, a major corruption scandal erupted concerning the laundering of 200 billion rubles through contracts with the state enterprise "Russian Railways".
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Netflix "Too Hot to Handle" reality star arrested ’after being caught smuggling £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK’
A Netflix reality star has been arrested for attempting to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs from Thailand.
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Welcome to China Street: fraudulent businesses taking over UK homes, creating a ’huge tax black hole’
Bogus online businesses could be cheating the exchequer of ‘hundreds of millions’ of pounds in tax, LBC has learned, with MPs calling on Companies House to do more following our findings.
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Man, 32, arrested for ’attempted murder’ after 8-year-old girl and her father were shot in a car attack
A second man has been arrested after an eight-year-old girl was ‘caught in the crossfire’ of a shooting in west London on Sunday night.
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Car crashes into hospital, injuring three, as fire and ambulance services respond to the scene
A car crashed into a temporary building at Torbay Hospital in Torquay, Devon, this morning, injuring three people as fire and ambulance services rushed to the scene.
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Iconic London club, popular with celebrities, closed over ’serious crime’ allegation
Soho’s Groucho Club has been closed with immediate effect over claims it is associated with ‘serious crime’.
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Lucky Brit wins colossal £177m EuroMillions jackpot, third biggest win of all time
The UK ticket holder is believed to have won the third biggest National Lottery win of all time, with it being described as a "truly incredible night" for the winner