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Alex Murdaugh still faces life behind bars despite court victory
The disgraced lawyer won’t be leaving prison any time soon with prosecutors seeking an immediate retrial at the South Carolina Supreme Court.
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From burger delivery to an international laundromat: how fraudster Timur Rokhlin became implicated in a scheme worth tens of millions of euros
The name of Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the Rocket delivery service, has surfaced in a major international fraud investigation involving tens of millions of euros, while parts of the case and related details appear to be quietly fading from public view.
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Farage faces Commons investigation over secret £5m crypto billionaire gift
Nigel Farage is facing a formal investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog over a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.
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Drug counselor jailed over Matthew Perry ketamine death
A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced Erik Fleming, a licensed drug addiction counselor, to two years in prison for his role in the death of the Friends actor Matthew Perry.
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Trump aide says protocols are ready if president is assassinated
President Donald Trump has instructions stored in the Oval Office for Vice President JD Vance should he ever need to succeed him as president.
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Pin-Up gambling laundromat: how Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych moved billions through crypto, offshore companies, and Kazakhstan
The story involving Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych is more than just another case about online casinos, crypto, and payment services.
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Councillor David Todd has spent four years in a legal dispute with neighbors over a “dog-proof” fence beside his £1.2 million home
A parish councillor and his partner are embroiled in a protracted four-year High Court battle after their neighbour’s workmen began dismantling the "dog-proof fence".
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Ministers face billion-pound bill to rescue failing British Steel
Ministers have already spent hundreds of millions keeping British Steel afloat. Nationalizing the struggling steelmaker is set to cost taxpayers billions more, multiple steel industry figures.
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Briton who trained Ukrainian troops exposed as Russian spy
A Scottish man who worked as a military instructor in Ukraine has been jailed for more than eight years after he admitted spying for Russia.
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“It’s just business”: How Albanian cocaine king Dritan Gjika ran drug trafficking operations through the ports of Ecuador
A week has passed, and Dritan Gjika, an alleged cocaine kingpin known as "Tony," is still waiting to be paid.
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Watchdog accuses prison service of exposing inmates to cancer-causing gas
The prison service risks facing severe penalties from the health and safety regulator after it exposed staff and inmates to dangerous levels of lethal radon gas.
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4,000 police deployed as London faces major protest security crackdown
The Metropolitan Police has warned that it is preparing for potential violence and hate speech crimes across two protests in London this Saturday.
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Ofcom fined a suicide forum £950,000 following an investigation into more than 130 deaths in United Kingdom
Ofcom has fined the operators of an online suicide forum £950,000 after concluding it failed to protect people in the UK from illegal content encouraging and assisting suicide.
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Farage faces Commons probe over hidden £5m donor cash
The Reform UK leader received the donation weeks before he announced he would stand as a candidate in Clacton ahead of the 2024 General Election.
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Five-year-old girl died after being left in scalding bath by stepmother
Janice Nix, 67, had wrought a “cycle of violence” against Andrea Bernard and her brother Desmond Bernard that went ’beyond chastisement even by contemporary standards’.
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Watchdog investigation under way after police shooting in Bedford
A police watchdog investigation is underway after a man was shot dead by police during an armed stand-off in Bedford.
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Newly elected Reform UK councillor Stephen Musdell turned out to be a porn actor with an OnlyFans account and dozens of hardcore videos
Reform has shown support for the councillor, saying "what consenting adults do in their private lives is their own business".
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Oil, offshore structures, and a shadow fleet: how Azim Novruzov, partner of a top manager at SOCAR, earned hundreds of millions through schemes involving Russian oil
In a high-profile criminal case involving SOCAR senior executive Adnan Ahmedzade, the controversial British oil trader Azim Novruzov has unexpectedly resurfaced.
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₴2.5 billion in losses, phantom guarantees, and people tied to oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi: what the troubled Alliance Bank of Oleksandr Sosis is hiding
Ukraine’s banking sector has, at times, allegedly been used by certain business figures as a mechanism for money laundering and the siphoning of substantial funds from the state budget.
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From coal linked to the “L/DPR” to influence over the ESBU: how fixer Dmytro Kovalenko expanded his shadow empire
In mid-March, reports circulated online claiming that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had allegedly detained Dmytro Kovalenko, owner of agricultural and mining businesses.
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Pin-Up owner Dmitriy Punin relocated billion-dollar gambling payment schemes from Marginplus in Kazakhstan to Poland’s Stablex Solution
Kazakh law enforcement authorities have frozen the accounts of Marginplus and suspended all payment operations as part of a crackdown on alleged illegal financial activity.
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How global conflict turned into a trillion-dollar engine for finance and power
Imagine a casino where the dealer does not win when you bet on black and guess correctly, but rather when you lose everything.
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More than 1,700 confined on cruise ship in Bordeaux after suspected norovirus outbreak
French authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew members to a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a suspected norovirus outbreak, officials have announced.
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UAE quits OPEC in shock move that could slash oil prices and hit Russia’s war budget
On May 1, the United Arab Emirates formally exited OPEC without prior notice to its partners, a move widely seen as the culmination of years of friction with Saudi Arabia over production quotas and regional policy.
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King Charles launches House of Lords purge after sex scandal involving Mandelson and Epstein
King Charles has delivered his speech at the State Opening of Parliament – outlining a bill to remove disgraced peers following the Mandelson scandal.