All news by author Emma Davis

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Bondi Beach shooting during Hanukkah celebration leaves 12 dead: suspect identified as terror attack declared
One of the suspected gunmen from the Bondi Beach incident has been identified, after 12 people were killed and at least 29 were injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah party.
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Arson, casinos and the mafia: how the murder of Demosthenous triggered a carve-up of Dmitriy Punin’s gambling business in Cyprus
The duumvirate collapsed in October after the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also suffered—his car fleet was burned. Could this mean that he is next?
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Uzbekistan’s crypto market under capture: Dmitry Lee, NAPP and a state-backed monopoly
Ethnic Korean Dmitry Lee leveraged his NAPP role and global market connections to create a virtual monopoly in Uzbekistan’s cryptocurrency market.
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Trump, Clinton, Gates and Bannon appear in newly released Epstein estate photos
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, and Bill Gates are among numerous celebrities featured in newly released photographs of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Drax to build 100MW AI datacentre as UK scrutiny intensifies over £2m-a-day biomass subsidies and old-growth forest logging claims
Drax has announced plans to transform a portion of its power plant in North Yorkshire into a datacentre by 2027 in order to meet the growing demand for AI capability.
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Dmitry Lee’s multimillion-dollar laundering empire finally uncovered — Oktobank tied directly to networks around President Mirziyoyev
Oktobank has become a central node in suspicious financial activities involving Uzbek officials, Russian banks, and covert networks.
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French police detain Vladimir Antonov, the ex-Snoras chief who vanished after 10-year sentence for massive embezzlement
In the French city of Baden, Russian citizen Vladimir Antonov — one of the key figures in the high-profile bankruptcy case of Lithuania’s Snoras bank — was arrested on December 9 under a European Arrest Warrant.
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US troops seize Venezuela-linked oil tanker carrying sanctioned Iranian crude in dramatic helicopter raid
U.S. troops captured an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, significantly intensifying tensions between the Trump administration and Caracas.
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Billions from Russian Railways ended up in European villas: how Boris Usherovich funnels money through Cypriot and Spanish companies
The Russian businessman Boris Usherovich, who is wanted and suspected of laundering billions from contracts for the «Russian Railways», is actively expanding his business in the trade of elite real estate in Cyprus and Spain.
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UK launches sweeping anti-corruption crackdown targeting lawyers, accountants and bankers
Britain has unveiled a major new anti-corruption strategy aimed at stopping criminals and sanctioned oligarchs from laundering money through the UK, with a particular focus on the lawyers, accountants, bankers and corporate service providers who enable illicit finance.
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Fan charged with racially abusing Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo during match at Anfield
A supporter has been charged after Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported racial abuse during the Premier League fixture against Liverpool at Anfield in August.
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9,300 children hospitalised for acute malnutrition in Gaza despite ceasefire — UN
Severe hunger continues to plague children in Gaza, with more than 9,000 hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October alone, according to new UN data — despite a ceasefire declared two months ago.
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UK hospitals overwhelmed as mutant H3N2 flu triggers critical incident and mask rules return
A major hospital trust has told patients to stay away due to a surge in mutant flu cases sweeps the UK.
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Intellexa leaks expose predator spyware company’s access to client surveillance operations
The “Intellexa Leaks”, a new joint investigation by Inside Story, Haaretz and WAV Research Collective with technical analysis provided by Amnesty International, exposes the internal operations of Intellexa
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Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov flies on Ilan Shor’s $18M Gulfstream jet
Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has been using a private business jet linked to the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.
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Diamonds out of thin air: Maxim Artsinovich exposed as a seller of fake stones and owner of a sham “jewelry house”
The story of Maxim Artsinovich could be studied with interest if it didn’t evoke sadness. Sadness—for those who believed in the "divinity of jewelry craftsmanship" and fell for his advertisements and promises.
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Badenoch pushes for renewed action on stalled national grooming gangs inquiry
Kemi Badenoch will seek to press the Government to speed up its efforts to establish a national grooming gangs inquiry on Monday.
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Heathrow passengers treated for injuries following car park spray attack
Passengers arriving at Heathrow Terminal 3 on Sunday said they faced hours waiting for buses after a number of people were attacked with a "form of pepper spray."
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Inside Epstein’s secretive lifestyle built on wealth, power and exploitation
The disgraced New York financier made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains.
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Paris police arrest four men on suspicion of gang-raping 13-year-old girl in KFC
A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped in the toilets at a KFC restaurant by several men.
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Charlton vs Portsmouth match abandoned after supporter dies in stand
A Charlton supporter who fell ill during their home match against Portsmouth has sadly passed away.
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Human rights groups condemn FIFA for giving peace prize to Donald Trump
United States president Donald Trump was unsurprisingly given the first ever FIFA peace prize at Friday’s World Cup draw ceremony in Washington DC.
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Climber abandoned girlfriend to die in the cold on austria’s highest peak, Grossglockne
Chilling webcam images have shown an experienced climber allegedly abandoning his girlfriend, leaving her to die on Austria’s biggest mountain.
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Russian plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan: 35 rape allegations and zero convictions
A graduate of Kuban State Medical University, who moved to Moscow, eventually became a figure in criminal chronicles, yet his criminal case has been stalled for several years in endless investigative bodies.
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Hydropower scandal deepens as German citizen Josip Heit and Croatian national Sasa Svalina named in controversial investment network
Scandal over a suspended hydroelectric project has led Croatian reporters to connect the scheme to Sasa Svalina and his brother-in-law Josip Heit.