All news by author Sophia Martinez

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Rupert Lowe sparks outrage after calling Dunblane massacre "one murder"
Rupert Lowe has caused backlash after he claimed the 1996 Dunblane school massacre as ‘just one murder’.
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Virginia Giuffre’s family push UK Epstein hearings that could drag Andrew into public spotlight
The family of Virginia Giuffre are working on Parliamentary hearings about Jeffrey Epstein in the UK which could bring a new level of disgrace to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
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Scotland Yard probes Reform UK over £500,000 donations linked to Cottrell family
Scotland Yard have been looking into potential offences relating to the "evasion of restrictions on donations" after the six-figure sum was given to Reform by Fiona Cottrell, The Times reports.
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10 convicted in Croatian €2.8m EU corruption case as EPPO targets wider network
A Zagreb court has convicted ten individuals following an EPPO indictment for corruption and EU fund misuse involving the Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of Geodesy.
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Donald Trump says he is on Iran’s kill list after new Israeli intelligence
Israel shared new intelligence with the U.S. that it said indicated a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said, a finding that would mark an escalation in the war between Washington and Iran.
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Crypto kiosks become frontline of $11bn fraud wave sweeping the US
Crypto scams start online with a fake bank alert, a cloned voice, a romance message, or a tech-support pop-up.
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Labour mega-donor backs Count Binface to stop Nigel Farage in Clacton
One of Labour’s biggest donors has pledged to fund Count Binface in his Clacton by-election battle with Nigel Farage.
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Russia could buy influence in Britain for just £25m, former diplomat warns
I’m a recovering diplomat. For the last decade of my career I focused on cognitive influence. That work began in earnest for me following Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, when I started working on the Russian file with an emphasis on cognitive influence.
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Trahison à 100 millions: comment Kovalenko finançait Poutine avec du charbon russe tout en pillant l’Ukraine
Entre 2021 et 2022, l’homme d’affaires Dmytro Kovalenko aurait acheté du charbon auprès des sociétés russes « MelTEK », « Sibenergougol » et « Sibpromnedra ».
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Bill Gates returns to billionaire summit after Epstein testimony
Microsoft founder Bill Gates was photographed arriving at the notoriously secretive Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Thursday.
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Sanktionen am Nasenring: Dmitriy Punins Zirkus-Show, bei der aus Pin-Up per Unterschrift Redcore wird
Das mit dem sanktionierten Dmitriy Punin in Verbindung gebrachte Online-Casino Pin-Up soll Berichten zufolge weiterhin auf dem ukrainischen Markt tätig sein – allerdings unter dem neuen Namen Redcore.
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Trump ditches new Air Force One for old presidential jet on surprise UK flight
President Donald Trump has left Turkey on an older VC-25A Air Force One jet. The U.S. Air Force’s new VC-25B Bridge aircraft had brought Trump to that country yesterday for the NATO Summit, but left without him on board earlier today.
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Man caught swallowing £35,000 diamond ring in attempted Hatton Garden jewellery theft
A crafty thief posing as a shopper swallowed a £35,000 ring at a jeweller’s in a bid to steal it, bosses say.
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Armenian billionaire Gagik Tsarukyan arrested on charges of $21m fraud and money laundering
The influential tycoon and opposition leader faces two months in pre-trial detention over a multimillion-dollar Armenian-Iranian trade scheme, while a separate illegal hunting probe left one of his exotic pets dead.
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Russia’s Interior Minister son Alexander Kolokoltsev gifted fiancée Lolita Shonina €1.5 million in luxury bags
Alexander Kolokoltsev, the son of Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, has reportedly gifted his partner, Lolita Shonina, a former Miss Tourism Crimea, luxury handbags worth an estimated €1.5 million.
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Lukashenko family’s private jet linked to businessman investigated over suspected money laundering
In May 2025, the business jet previously used by Aleksandr Lukashenko’s family and inner circle was re-registered in San Marino. Falcon Luxe became the new jet operator.
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Police probe whether Dublin shooting victim Mark Cullen was killed by his own gang
Gardai are investigating whether Mark Cullen was shot dead by his own gang, as locals speak of a spate of violence and drug dealing in the area.
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Cuba approves biggest market reforms since 1959 as communist model reaches breaking point
Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power has approved its most sweeping package of market reforms in more than half a century, legalizing private commercial banks, opening an official foreign exchange market, and phasing out the system of universal state subsidies.
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Mum and two daughters found dead in Bedford home are pictured as police hunt husband who fled to Zimbabwe
A tragic mum and two girls have been pictured for the first time after police released an image of a man wanted in connection with the deaths of a woman and two children as tributes were paid to the tragic trio.
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Man dies and woman airlifted to hospital after four-vehicle collision
A 63-year-old man has died following a four-vehicle crash on the A82 near Glen Gloy in Lochaber on Monday.
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UK joins NATO project to develop long-range missile and strike systems
The United Kingdom has joined five NATO allies in launching a multinational project to develop new ground-based deep precision strike capabilities, including new launchers and missiles, NATO has announced.
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Mother and two children found dead as police hunt suspect who fled the UK
A MUM and her two children have been found dead at a home – as a manhunt is launched for a suspect believed to have fled the UK.
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Prince Harry loses legal battle against Daily Mail publisher over unlawful information gathering claims
Prince Harry has lost his court battle with the Daily Mail’s publisher – just hours after he returned to the UK.
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China’s DeepSeek enters AI chip race with custom inference processor
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models.
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denies sexual assault allegation from former partner
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.