All news for 2025-02-06

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Number of women caught carrying knives has tripled over the past decade
The number of women and girls caught carrying knives has trebled in the last decade, according to new LBC research, with a sharp increase since the rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
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Baltics prepare for potential cyberattacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid
A long-planned exit from the BRELL power grid has the Baltic countries preparing for Russian retaliation.
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British conman on trial in France for allegedly ramming police with his car
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, a serial swindler who featured in Netflix documentary, allegedly injured officers in getaway attempt.
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How Favbet owner Andriy Matyukha helped the Kremlin launder billions through the Ukrainian gambling business
An interesting case is being considered in the Dnipropetrovsk Economic Court, involving the withdrawal of money from gambling through the payment system "Diamond Pay". It is interesting because of the reasons that lead directly to Russian special services, which control a significant part of Ukraine’s gambling market.
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Owner of the spyware implicated in the WhatsApp breach terminates their contract with Italy
Decision comes after it emerged an Italian investigative journalist and two activists targeted by Paragon Solutions spyware.
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Power cut disrupts billion-dollar global scam industry, but doubts remain about its impact on stopping the swindling
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.
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UK plans to simplify the process for building nuclear reactors
The government has announced plans to make it easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales, as part of its efforts to boost UK economic growth.
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The Silicon Valley prodigy linked to the Zizian trans ’death cult’ is implicated in six killings
’Jack Amadeus LaSota left our lives but not our hearts on August 19 after a boating accident,’ an obituary, published on the Daily News-Miner on September 7 2022, read.
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Donald Trump signs executive order prohibiting trans women athletes from participating in female sports
Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders in his first days and weeks in office, with three targeting transgender people.
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Met Police arrest hundreds in one week during crackdown on phone thefts
The Metropolitan Police described the reselling of stolen phones abroad and in the UK as a £50million-a-year trade.
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American gang believed they would make a fortune but were busted at a UK airport after hiding in toilets
Seven people were arrested when the huge haul was discovered after a bag went through an X-ray machine and the alarm was raised at Manchester Airport.
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Three teenagers tragically die in a horror crash on a country lane after attending a house party
Dafydd Huw Craven-Jones only had his driving licence for less than six months prior to the crash in Penkridge, Staffordshire, which killed him and passengers Morgan Jones and Sophie Bates.
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Families of Grenfell Tower victims informed that the block will be demolished
The families of the people killed in the Grenfell Tower fire have been told the block will be demolished, it is understood.