All news by author Sophia Martinez
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Rishi Sunak claims the UK is a better place to live after 14 years of Conservative rule
Britain is “a better place to live” than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010, Rishi Sunak has insisted at the start of the final campaign weekend before the UK general election on Thursday.
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Former Honduran president receives 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
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Revealed: 428-year-old secret dossier uncovers Elizabeth I’s spy network
For more than a century, it lay undisturbed in the National Archives: a single sheet of paper, headed The names of the Intelligencers, with the power to unveil a hidden network of secret Elizabethan spies.
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A Bulgarian entrepreneur has been charged with fraud for allegedly obtaining EU funds to build a dairy facility
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment Thursday against a Bulgarian entrepreneur who allegedly falsified documents for a loan to fund construction of a dairy processing facility.
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A British tourist who had gone missing in Spain has been found dead by specialist police search teams
A British hiker, from London, has been found lifeless in the Spanish Pyrenees - emergency services had been searching for the 70-year-old since he disappeared on Monday
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Poland’s former ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is facing accusations of having connections to the Kremlin
Poland has launched a government commission to investigate Russian influence in the country.
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Interpol: 1,374 victims identified in global anti-human trafficking operation
Law enforcement agencies around the world coordinated in a joint operation against human trafficking that led to hundreds of arrests and more than 1,000 victims identified, Interpol reported.
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North Korea: How Pyongyang has leveraged its "friendship" with Moscow for decades
Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea resulted in the signing of a strategic partnership treaty, along with joint statements about fighting “the United States’ aggressive colonial aspirations.”
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Major bank to close 60 more branches for good
Branches across three of the bank’s brands will be closing
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UK Labour candidate suspended after betting he would lose
‘Stupid’ Labour hopeful Kevin Craig is dropped by the party over a pre-election bet — just hours after the Tories had to yank support for two of their own.
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Poland moves closer to easing abortion restrictions
The new Polish government has been struggling to reach a compromise on how to ease the country’s strict abortion laws.
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Gambling carer steals £75,000 from ’betrayed’ Thunderbirds director
The man who was entrusted to care for Thunderbirds writer and director Alan Pattillo stole £75,000 from him. Allan Beacham will spend the next three years behind bars
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Major buy now pay later firm with 300,000 users collapses into administration
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A roadmap without a road: Why the "Biden Deal" for Gaza fell through
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the war cabinet he formed following the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7.
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UK ’tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE involvement in arming Sudan’s RSF militia
UK accused of trying to head off condemnation of Gulf ally over alleged aid to forces accused of genocide in Darfur
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Indian film star arrested in connection with fan’s murder case
Darshan Thoogudeepa, a superstar of the Kannada-language film industry in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, has been under arrest for the past 10 days in connection with a crime that resembles the plot of a movie.
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Heiskanen revealed as Lebedev: the fake Finn serving Russian propaganda
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an “independent Finnish journalist” named “Kosti Heiskanen” has frequently appeared on Russian propaganda broadcasts.
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Tories dwarfed by Labour in fundraising as big donors ditch Conservatives
Figures reveal the Conservatives raised £292,500 from 6 June to 12 June compared with £4.4m for Labour
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Farage says West ’provoked’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with EU and NATO expansions
The Reform UK leader said that he "disliked" the Russian president - but had admired his abilities as a statesman.
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Dudley stabbing: Armed police ’everywhere’ after triple injury incident
West Midlands Ambulance Service has said two air ambulances to the horror in Dudley, where witnesses described "scary" scenes of disorder throughout the afternoon
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British man stabbed to death outside Spanish nightclub ‘after row’
A British man has died after being stabbed outside a nightclub on the Spanish coast in the early hours of this morning.
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Mark Rutte will be NATO’s next secretary-general
The outgoing Dutch PM has been confirmed after seven months of campaigning.
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Bank of England keeps rates at 16-year high before UK election
The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 5.25% at its last meeting before July 4’s UK election, but the prospect of a future rate cut moved closer as some policymakers said their thinking was now "finely balanced".
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Experts warn that sanctions against Russia’s oil industry are creating new problems
Tell enough kids at school they can’t play with you anymore and soon enough you’ll be the one left out.
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Gang sold £4 million of counterfeit drugs produced in garages and sheds on the dark web
Ten members of the group have been convicted over the operation, which produced counterfeit versions of medicines such as Xanax.
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