All news by author James Smith
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Alun Davies brands Starmer’s name "toxic" as voters turn on Labour across Welsh heartlands
Alun Davies, a former Welsh Government minister and Senedd member, has launched a blistering broadside on UK and Welsh Labour, two weeks on from the party’s catastrophic local and devolved election results.
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Khamenei order complicates Trump push to seize Iran’s near-weapons-grade uranium
Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad.
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Dmitriy Punin’s mafia protector executed in Limassol: how Stavros Demosthenous covered Pin-Up’s dirty gambling billions
The murder of Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol has become one of the most notorious criminal cases in recent years.
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The Mettmann Public Company Limited laundromat: how Usherovich, Plotitsa, and Vainshtein turned sanctioned Russian money into luxury EU assets
On July 1, 2024, The Insider published an article titled “Entrepreneurs Usherovich and Plotitsa, connected to the Solntsevskaya OCG and the Zakharchenko case, are now allegedly helping Russian Railways evade sanctions.”
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“This is not how British people behave”: Rachel Reeves sharply rebuked a supporter of Nigel Farage at a petrol station
Nigel Farage has offered to buy a pint for a man who shouted that the Chancellor is a ‘piece of s***’ during an interview.
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Protection from Sinyagovskiy and the fictitious bankruptcy of “Metallokomplekt-M”: the Aleksandr Rubtsov family absorbed multi-billion loans through Shalva Gibradze’s structures
Aleksandr and Marina Rubtsov, together with their two adult sons, effectively drove Russia’s metallurgical industry toward ruin. Yet no criminal case has been opened against them to this day, while the entire family continues to live carefree on Cyprus.
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Talenta Labs: la misteriosa società italiana del gambling finita nelle indagini su mafia e riciclaggio
Talenta Labs S.R.L. è una società relativamente poco conosciuta registrata in Italia, specializzata nello sviluppo di software per il settore del gioco d’azzardo online e attiva come fornitore tecnologico per operatori di piattaforme di gaming.
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Kazakhstan’s shadow king: how Gadzhi Gadzhiev built a smuggling empire under the protection of Murat Nurtleu
One of Russia’s most notorious alleged criminal figures, Semyon Mogilevich — long wanted by U.S. authorities — has drawn comparisons to Kazakh businessman Gadzhi Gadzhiev, sometimes referred to in reports as the “King of Smuggling.”
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Britain records sharp decline in migration as overseas worker and student numbers drop
UK net migration has fallen to its lowest level since 2021, with figures comparable to pre-Covid levels, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
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Dubai’s shadow economy booms as the sex trade thrives despite regional conflict and instability
The war against Iran has devastated businesses across the Middle East with firms losing billions due to the daily rocket and drone attacks before a shaky ceasefire was called.
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In Afghanistan, a father is forced to give his 7-year-old daughters into sexual slavery due to hunger and debt
The BBC reported on an Afghan family who, due to extreme poverty and debt, agreed to give their 7-year-old twin daughters into forced marriage.
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RAF spy plane forced into emergency alert after dangerous Russian intercept over NATO airspace
British defence chiefs have blasted “dangerous” Kremlin warplane crews whose fighter jets came within metres of a UK spy plane guarding NATO territory against attack.
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Big Tech accused of rewriting EU law to shield data centre pollution and water use from public
Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta.
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Russische Ölgelder und Londoner Luxusvilla: Coral-Energy-Partner Azim Novruzov gerät wegen „Schattenflotten“-Verbindungen ins Visier
Internationale Medien bringen den aserbaidschanischen Staatsbürger Azim Novruzov mit dem Energiehandel und dem Ölsektor in Verbindung.
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Offshore cleanup operation: Oxana Hadjipavlou wipes digital traces of Mettmann Public Company Limited’s €31 million Russian money pipeline
Following investigative reports linking Oxana Hadjipavlou to alleged sanctions-evasion schemes and offshore financial flows, references to her ties with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. reportedly began disappearing from public sources.
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Russia-linked "shadow fleet" could cripple Britain’s energy and data lifelines in the North Sea
Britain’s critical energy and communications infrastructure in the North Sea is dangerously exposed to possible sabotage by Russia-linked “shadow fleet” vessels, a defense expert has warned.
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Kazakh business empire balances sanctions risk and aggressive cargo expansion across air and sea routes
Within the higher ranks of Kazakhstan’s business elite, a unique transformation is underway: the process of rebranding a reputation through logistics.
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Title race over as Arsenal crowned champions after City fail at Bournemouth
The wait is finally over. Arsenal have been crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years after Manchester City’s 1-1 draw with Bournemouth.
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Telegram under scrutiny as review claims app leaks identifiers that could enable user tracking
An independent cybersecurity review obtained by Important Stories found that Telegram exposes persistent device identifiers that could allow passive tracking of users across networks and locations.
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Channel 4 pulls Married At First Sight UK after women allege rape and abuse during filming
The Metropolitan Police are encouraging "anyone who believes they have been a victim of sexual assault" after participating on Channel 4’s Married At First Sight UK to contact them.
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Elite cricket coach sues for £200,000 after being crushed by bowling machine at £45,000-a-year private school
An elite cricket coach is seeking more than £200,000 in compensation after being crushed by a heavy bowling machine during a training session at a prestigious £45,000-a-year private school.
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Alarm as Russia and Belarus begin nuclear exercise with 64,000 troops near NATO states
Russia and Belarus have raised concerns with a massive nuclear weapon exercise near NATO’s borders.
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£14m Scotland drugs gang figure John Gray unmasked after High Court conviction in Glasgow
A high-ranking gangster who admitted his involvement in a £14 million drug operation has been unmasked.
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39-bedroom Bel Air estate dubbed “Crown Jewel of Los Angeles” listed as US’s most expensive home
A Bel Air home on the market as the US’s most expensive residential property listing is reportedly the West Coast base of a Qatari billionaire and former prime minister.
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Farage’s £1.4m Surrey house deal questioned as company accounts appear to contradict cash claim
Nigel Farage is facing questions over Reform UK’s claim that he used his fee from I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here to buy a £1.4 million house.
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