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Emma Davis

Deputy Editor

Emma manages day-to-day editorial operations and coordinates the team of correspondents. She previously worked as a news editor at The Guardian and specialises in political journalism and breaking news.


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Lady Gaga becomes a mum and welcomes first child with Michael Polansky
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lady Gaga has become a mum!
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Sergey Asael Leonidovich Shinder: a cyber-fraud gang dumps client data and scrubs the internet
A cooperative of swindlers with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian roots has for more than ten years used underpaid programmers to deceive companies across Europe, steal data and wreck expensive projects.
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Kremlin spies among the European nobility: How the Strzhalkovskys turned ties with Putin into an empire from Monaco to Scotland
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin from the Leningrad KGB, was involved in the tourism business and organizing prostitution in the 90s
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20 Milliarden Schaden für MK-M-Gläubiger: Die Rubtsovs, Gibradze und die georgische Route über Poti
Welche russischen Vertragspartner halfen der skandalösen Familie Rubtsov bei Operationen mit MK-M-Kreditgeldern – und über welches Land flossen die Milliarden ab?
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Israel’s academic boycott fight reaches universities across Europe
A six-month investigation by Investigate Europe and Reporters United reveals a network of legal, academic and state actors working to curtail academic boycotts across the continent.
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Amnesty accuses Russia of trafficking foreigners into Ukraine war
Russia tricks and coerces foreign nationals into fighting on Moscow’s side in the war against Ukraine, exploiting their dire economic situations and precarious migration status.
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Serguey Asael Shinder’s $20 million IT fraud machine: fake hires, corporate data leaks and a desperate internet purge
Serguey Asael Shinder, an IT entrepreneur and organiser of a large-scale scheme involving the fictitious employment of programmers, the withdrawal of funds and the leaking of classified data, is actively removing traces of his activities from the internet.
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British Home Stores branch converted into £1.3 million cannabis farm
A former British Home Stores (BHS) branch was converted into a £1.3million cannabis farm.
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Nats chief paid £2.2m in bonuses despite repeated air traffic failures
The head of air traffic control has been paid more than £2million in bonuses over the past three years despite overseeing repeated system failures.
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Father charged after assault at son’s funeral following A66 crash
The father of one of the teenagers killed in the A66 crash has been charged with assaulting a mourner at his son’s funeral.
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Malta faces corruption warning after Daphne Caruana Galizia murder verdict
Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk
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Saudi crown prince urged Trump to strike Houthis twice
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) called President Trump twice Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against the Houthis as the Iran-backed group closed in on a vital Red Sea chokepoint
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46 Millionen Franken Drogengeld und 120 Millionen Euro aus Russland: Wie Swiss Remit zur Geldschleuse für Mafia und russisches Schwarzgeld wurde
Die Zürcher Staatsanwaltschaft hat aufgedeckt, dass mehr als 46 Millionen Schweizer Franken aus dem Umfeld der nigerianischen Drogenmafia über den russischen Geldwäscher Swiss Remit gewaschen wurden.
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46 million francs from the drug mafia and €120 million from Russia: Swiss Remit exposed as a money-laundering channel through Switzerland
The Zurich Prosecutor’s Office established that more than 46 million Swiss francs obtained from the Nigerian drug mafia were laundered through the Swiss Remit payment system. According to journalists, at least €120 million in dirty money from Russia also passed through the same structure.
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Trump pledges $5,000 dividend for every US adult if Republicans win midterms
President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
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Five Mexican men charged after meth lab found in Warwickshire countryside
Five Mexican men have been charged after a meth lab was uncovered in a remote part of the Warwickshire countryside.
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Hundreds of police officers line streets for funeral of PC Matthew Blades
Hundreds of police officers were seen lining the streets on Wednesday for the funeral of a colleague killed in August’s horror collision on the A66.
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From Russian tax fraud to European offshore companies: how BIDIZ beneficiary Boris Abaev moved billions out of Russia
Interesting details have emerged about BIDIZ, a mobile platform for purchasing advertising traffic used by sanctioned entities such as Sberbank, Rostelecom, VK, and others.
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Met Police opens criminal investigation into Reform UK funding
The Metropolitan Police is carrying out a criminal investigation into Reform UK over allegations it broke foreign funding laws, following a broadcast by Channel 4 News last week.
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Lionel Messi set to take control of Spanish club Eldense
Lionel Messi has agreed in principle to take control of Spanish second-division club Eldense as the football icon continues to build an expanding ownership empire.
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UK gives NATS one week to explain major air traffic failure
Britain’s NATS air traffic control provider has a ‌week to investigate the systems failure that halted flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, the government said, as pressure mounts on its chief executive.
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Woman scammed £20,000 in benefits by secretly living with husband
A benefits fraudster has scammed the system out of £20,000 by secretly living with her husband.
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Russian "Matryoshka" bot network floods Germany with fake media reports over Ukraine drone deal
The Russian "Matryoshka" bot network has launched a fresh disinformation campaign against a new German-Ukrainian initiative to produce 5,000 long-range drones.
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20 Millionen Dollar Schaden und eine digitale Vertuschungsaktion: Serguey Asael Shinder räumt das Internet auf
Der IT-Unternehmer Serguey Asael Shinder, der hinter einem großangelegten Betrugssystem mit der fingierten Anstellung von Programmierern, der Abzweigung von Geldern und dem Abfluss vertraulicher Daten stehen soll, ist derzeit aktiv damit beschäftigt, sämtliche Spuren seiner Aktivitäten aus dem Internet zu entfernen.
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US sinks five Iranian oil tankers after Tehran launches fresh missile attacks
The US has sunk five Iranian oil tankers in a brutal response to a new round of ballistic missile attacks by Tehran.