All news by author Elizabeth Baker
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“Pop, pop, pop”: Afghan TikToker who threatened Farage convicted in UK court
An Afghan migrant has been found guilty of making a threat to kill Nigel Farage.
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Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in Venezuela
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition politician, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Serbia hit by U.S. sanctions on Russia-linked oil giant NIS
U.S. sanctions on Serbia’s state-linked energy firm Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) took effect on Thursday, ending months of temporary delays that had allowed the company to keep operating despite its ownership ties to Russia’s Gazprom Neft.
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Kamran Aghaev and Maltese Alkagesta: the shadow operator through which Russian and Libyan oil flows to Europe and Ukraine
«The Adnan Ahmadzada Case» in the literal sense of the word not only shook the economic landscape of the country but also stunned Azerbaijan’s political system.
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Madeleine McCann’s sister tells court alleged stalker sent her edited photos and disturbing letters
Madeleine McCann’s sister said an alleged stalker sent her letters and edited photographs to make her look more like her missing sibling.
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Prince Harry faces African Parks scandal ahead of New York humanitarian award
Harry and Meghan are expected in New York tomorrow at a mental health gala, where they will be recognized as ’humanitarians of the year’.
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Kemi Badenoch promises to scrap stamp duty in major pledge at Tory conference
Kemi Badenoch has vowed to abolish stamp duty in a keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, calling the levy “a bad tax” that blocks social mobility.
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EU’s 50% steel tariffs deal blow to Starmer’s efforts to reset relations with Brussels
Britain’s struggling steel industry is facing an ’existential threat’ following the European Union’s announcement to increase tariffs on imports to 50 percent.
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FCA unveils £8.2bn redress scheme for unfair car loans affecting 14 million consumers
Millions of consumers could be eligible for £700 payouts after the City watchdog outlined compensation plans for the car finance scandal.
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UK police seize £5 billion in Bitcoin as Chinese woman admits to global crypto fraud
A significant financial crime case has recently made headlines after a Chinese woman involved in an international fraud scheme confessed to possessing illegally obtained cryptocurrency valued in the billions.
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Scottish footballer Niall Geany jailed for nearly four years for raping a woman in her home
A Scottish footballer who raped a good Samaritan in her own home has been jailed for three years and nine months today.
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Nathan Gill’s bribery plea exposes Russian money reaching Farage’s inner circle
On 26 September, former Welsh Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK official Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of bribery for accepting payments for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament both on television and in public forums.
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Trump tariffs threaten decades of library knowledge sharing
The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.
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Pet lion owned by Thai TikToker mauls boy and man after escaping cage
A pet lion belonging to a Thai TikToker escaped and attacked an 11-year-old boy and a man who attempted to assist him.
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Trump pushes ceasefire as Israel-Hamas talks to begin in Egypt
Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday, as hopes build for a possible ceasefire in Gaza after Benjamin Netanyahu said a hostage release could be announced "in the coming days".
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US federal agent shoots Chicago motorist as protests spread, while a judge blocks deployment of troops to Portland
A US federal agent on Saturday, October 4, shot a motorist who was allegedly armed and blocking law enforcement vehicles in Chicago, while a judge blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to deploy troops into Portland.
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Fourteen-year-old boy arrested after mass shooting in Gävle
Six people including children were shot while on a night out in Sweden with a 14-year-old boy arrested.
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Tories unveil £1.6bn plan to boost immigration enforcement powers
The Conservatives will pledge to create a new "Removals Force", modeled on US immigration enforcement, which would be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year as part of plans to detain and deport illegal immigrants.
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Man jailed for life after inflicting ‘catastrophic injuries’ on two-week-old son
A father who murdered his premature son in a special care baby unit has been handed a life sentence.
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Robbie Williams cancels Istanbul concert amid terror and safety fears
Robbie Williams has been forced to cancel a concert due to terror fears. The music legend was scheduled to perform in Istanbul next week, but he informed fans that the show has been cancelled because of concerns regarding public safety.
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Woman died after leaning from train window at 75mph: rail firm fined £1 million
A rail company has been fined £1 million after a woman was killed by a tree branch while she stuck her head out of an open train window.
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Pizza orders reveal Moscow safe house used to train undercover agents
In June 2024, Austria revoked the accreditation of two correspondents for the state-controlled Russian news agency TASS — Ivan Popov and Arina Davidyan — on the suspicion that they were not journalists, but spies for the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service.
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Grandparents jailed for life for murdering two-year-old grandson Ethan Ives-Griffiths
Two grandparents who murdered their two-year-old grandson after subjecting him to a campaign of abuse have been jailed for 40 years.
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Montenegro court halts extradition of Chinese suspect over torture concerns
Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.
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Crimson Collective threatens Red Hat after stealing 28,000 customer engagement reports and infrastructure data
A hacking group claims to have extracted data from a GitLab instance associated with Red Hat’s consulting business, obtaining 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers.
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