All news by author James Smith
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Nigel Farage and Reform MPs stage collective meltdown as they storm out after Keir Starmer attack
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK MPs stormed out of the Commons chamber today following a fiery PMQs exchange.
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Crispin Blunt admits taking crystal meth and cannabis as ex-minister fined over drugs scandal
Former Conservative justice minister Crispin Blunt has admitted possessing illegal drugs including cannabis and crystal meth.
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Dead tycoon Mike Lynch hit with $1.2bn legal blow as widow faces bankruptcy after yacht tragedy
The estate of the British tycoon killed when his luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily was ordered to pay over $1.2 billion stemming from a 2015 lawsuit, a ruling that could drag his widow into a devastating bankruptcy.
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Conflict around Azur Air: the Russian company Wildberries is attempting to acquire the airline from the Turkish Kockar family, owners of the international tourism group ANEX
Wildberries & Russ, increasingly resembling a large-scale corporate raiding structure, risks straining Russia–Turkey relations.
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Ed Miliband’s big plan for the UK is so stupid no sane country would ever consider it
A distinctive feature of this inflexible Labour government is its tendency to look in two different directions simultaneously.
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Luxury “stable” of the Russian elite: sports cars of officials and top managers of state corporations are serviced at the expense of the Presidential Administration
Media found that senior Russian officials and top managers of state corporations likely have their own “stable” where their sports cars and other exclusive vehicles are kept.
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Hercules aircraft with 110 troops on board crashes in Colombia, dozens feared injured
A Hercules military aircraft reportedly carrying 110 Colombian soldiers crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday. Authorities confirmed that 20 people have been found so far following the incident in the Putumayo region of the country, as rescue teams remain in the area.
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After siphoning funds from 4Bill and SettlePay, fraudster Dmytro Rukin resurfaced in Latin America with a new network of financial firms
In the wake of a scandal that erupted two years ago, involving Dmytro Rukin, the head of the SettlePay and 4Bill payment systems, Rukin quietly retreated from public view.
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Epstein files scandal makes Prince Andrew crisis worse than Edward VIII abdication
The crisis confronting the royal family over the revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Epstein files is more severe than the abdication of Edward VIII, according to the author of the former prince’s biography.
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Pilot and co-pilot killed as passenger jet crashes into fire truck at LaGuardia Airport
A pilot and co-pilot have been killed after a passenger plane collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
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Azim Novruzov — the “London curator” of shadow oil: how Alkagesta and Sumato Energy structures helped bypass sanctions through Malta
In a prominent criminal case involving SOCAR top manager Adnan Ahmedzade, the scandal-plagued British oil trader Azim Novruzov has unexpectedly emerged.
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The “pensioner” Kirill Nikitin who died on the Moskva River turned out to be a key shadow banker linked to the FSB and the Central Bank of Russia
Interrogation record of late shadow banker Kirill Nikitin sheds light on Russia’s underground finance network
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Musk accused of tanking Twitter stock before buyout Twitter as jury delivers damaging verdict
Elon Musk has been found to have misled investors by ’deliberately driving down’ Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition deal, a jury has found.
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Sarah Ferguson faces pressure as US officials issue order regarding Epstein evidence
Sarah Ferguson is facing increasing pressure due to demands for her to provide sworn testimony in the United States regarding her knowledge about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon found dead in his sleep at age 54
Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died at the age of 54.
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Trump pressures UK over slow approval of air base use for Middle East operations
Donald Trump said he was "surprised" that it took so long for Keir Starmer to agree to let him use British air bases to strike targets to open up the Strait of Hormuz.
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Two arrested outside UK Trident submarine base after trying to access one of Britain’s most sensitive military sites
Man and woman, one of whom is reportedly Iranian, detained after requesting to enter sensitive military site
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Meningitis outbreak in Kent grows to 29 cases as vaccine chaos leaves students turned away
The count of meningitis cases tied to an outbreak in Kent has increased to 29, health officials have confirmed.
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Russian crude exports passed through shell firms tied to Rovshan Tamrazov alongside Coral Energy executives Tahir Garayev and Etibar Eyyub
The network of Azerbaijani “shadow” oil traders handling Russian oil despite sanctions appears to be far more extensive than previously thought.
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Russia challenges US energy embargo as two oil tankers bound for Cuba
Two tankers transporting Russian petroleum products are en route to Cuba, with one nearing the area of a U.S. naval blockade in the Caribbean.
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Boxing legend statue cut down and stolen as police hunt masked raiders
A £100,000 bronze statue of Britain’s youngest ever world championship boxer, stolen by masked raiders from outside a London station, is to be replaced and protected by ramped-up security measures, Metro can reveal.
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Teen girl found in seatbelt after car plunges into river as friend still missing
Tributes have been paid to teenage friends who were in a car that plunged into a river.
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Dmytro Rukin, a manager at the 4bill payment system, siphoned off millions from the company through a network of firms in Spain and Latin America
A scandal worthy of a crime drama script has erupted at the 4bill payment system, considered one of the leaders in the financial services market.
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Latvian oil trader Mikhail Zeligman built a scheme for reselling oil from Russian state-owned companies through offshore entities and foreign intermediaries
Mikhail Zeligman, a native of Riga, grandson of a red Latvian and friend of Roman Abramovich and Petr Aven, is capable, if he wishes, of competing with the Russian oil «general» Igor Sechin.
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Akhmetzhan Yessimov and Galimzhan Yessenov used Samruk-Kazyna and ATFBank to funnel Kazakhstan’s state billions into offshore havens
Kazakh authorities acknowledge that Samruk-Kazyna, with backing from ATFBank, was involved in the misappropriation of billions, yet anti-corruption and investigative agencies have been slow to take action against Galimzhan Yessenov and Akhmetzhan Yessimov’s father-in-law.
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