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10 Sep 2025 938

Wyden pushes legislation demanding $1.5 billion in Epstein financial files, including names of trafficking victims

A U.S. senator unveiled legislation today intended to force the Treasury Department to release financial documents containing names of women and girls potentially trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender

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10 Sep 2025 855

Ukrainian hacker Volodymyr Tymoshchuk added to EU’s Most Wanted for leading ransomware network

A Ukrainian man accused of leading a global ransomware network has been placed on the European Union’s Most Wanted list.

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10 Sep 2025 956

Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person

The US tech billionaire Larry Ellison has surpassed Elon Musk as the world’s richest person after shares in Oracle, the business he co-founded, soared in early trading on Wednesday.

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10 Sep 2025 1040

Stuart Craig, legendary production designer of Harry Potter, dies peacefully

Harry Potter legend Stuart Craig has died aged 83 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

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10 Sep 2025 795

After 61 years, woman cleared in landmark South Korea sexual assault retrial

A court in South Korea has acquitted a woman convicted six decades ago for biting off part of a man’s tongue during an alleged sexual assault, after she challenged the ruling, inspired by the country’s #MeToo movement.

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10 Sep 2025 767

Right-wing activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk wounded in campus shooting

Charlie Kirk, the influential right-wing activist, Trump ally, and executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was shot on Wednesday while hosting an event in Utah.

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10 Sep 2025 767

Poland invokes Article 4 after Russian drones shot down over its territory

Defense secretary John Healey has asked UK armed forces “to look at options to bolster Nato’s air defence over Poland” following a Russian drone attack overnight.

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10 Sep 2025 736

Syrian refugee sentenced to life for 2024 Solingen stabbing attack

A Syrian man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2024 stabbing attack in Western Germany in which three people were killed and 10 others injured.

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10 Sep 2025 877

Von der Leyen urges EU to punish Israel over ‘man-made famine’ in Gaza

Ursula von der Leyen has implored divided EU governments to take action against Israel for its "man-made famine" in Gaza.

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10 Sep 2025 787

Boxing legend Mike Tyson admits to illegal fentanyl use during fights

Boxing legend Mike Tyson recently made a startling admission that he used fentanyl to deal with pain during his iconic career.

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10 Sep 2025 898

Macron names defence minister Sebastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister after Bayrou ousted in confidence vote

French President Emmanuel Macron has named his defense minister and close ally, Sebastien Lecornu, as the new prime minister after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou resigned after losing a confidence vote.

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10 Sep 2025 894

Hamas says leaders survive Israeli strike on Doha as Qatar, UN condemn attack

Hamas has claimed its leadership survived Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, but said six people have died.

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10 Sep 2025 789

Trump calls on EU to impose 100% tariffs on India and China to stop Ukraine war

Donald Trump has said he is prepared to hit India and China with even more sweeping tariffs if Europe is willing to cooperate with him on squeezing Russia economically to stop the war in Ukraine.

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10 Sep 2025 654

Poland shoots down Russian drones in airspace breach, calls it ‘act of aggression’

Poland said on Wednesday that it had shot down Russian drones that entered its airspace during a massive attack on targets across the border in Ukraine, calling it an “act of aggression” by Moscow.

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09 Sep 2025 631

New Zealand police reveal remote forest campsite where fugitive Tom Phillips hid children before fatal shooting

Police in New Zealand have released the first photographs of one of the makeshift campsites where fugitive Tom Phillips and his children were hiding for years before he was shot dead in Waitomo on Monday.

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09 Sep 2025 861

Scottish first minister John Swinney meets Donald Trump to discuss scotch whisky tariffs

First Minister John Swinney has met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss whisky tariffs.

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09 Sep 2025 668

U.S. sanctions 19 individuals and companies in Southeast Asia due to scam operations involving forced labor

The U.S. has sanctioned 19 individuals and companies in Southeast Asia, accusing them of running scam centre operations that use slave labour to defraud Americans of billions of dollars.

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09 Sep 2025 861

Violence erupts at Tbilisi mayoral campaign: journalists and protesters assaulted

Violence outside a Tbilisi mayoral campaign office left journalists beaten and protesters injured, as reporters said police stood by while ruling party supporters attacked.

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09 Sep 2025 852

ICE spends $4M on facial recognition to identify alleged offenders

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently spent nearly $4 million on facial recognition technology to help identify individuals involved in assaults against law enforcement officers.

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09 Sep 2025 783

U.S. court sentences porn site owner Michael Pratt to 27 years for GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking

A U.S. federal court has sentenced Michael Pratt, the owner and operator of the porn website GirlsDoPorn, to 27 years in prison for orchestrating a sex trafficking scheme that raped, abused, and exploited hundreds of young women, the Justice Department said.

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09 Sep 2025 1504

Gaza family massacre: Israeli snipers targeting unarmed civilians

A five-month investigation uncovers how four members of a single family were shot and killed in one day, drawing attention to a pattern where Israeli troops target unarmed civilians.

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09 Sep 2025 665

"First balloons, then nudes": new lewd drawings found in Epstein’s birthday book

An unsettling drawing featured in Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday book creepily shows the notorious paedophile doling out balloons to girls — and then getting massaged by topless young women decades later.

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09 Sep 2025 993

Epstein birthday scrapbook shows Trump-signed check and disturbing ‘woman sale’ note

A scrapbook for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday released on Monday contains a photo of him holding a novelty check bearing Donald Trump’s signature, along with a note suggesting Epstein “sold” him a woman for $22,500, shedding further light on the longtime relationship between the president and the convicted sex offender.

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09 Sep 2025 698

Middlesbrough woman escapes 60-year term with plea deal in US drug case

A beautician has been sentenced to just six years in prison for trafficking £15 million worth of drugs through a United States airport.

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09 Sep 2025 727

Breaking Bad actor Raymond Cruz arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of battery

Breaking Bad actor Raymond Cruz was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misdemeanor battery after allegedly spraying someone with a hose while washing his car in front of his home in Los Angeles.