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British conman on trial in France for allegedly ramming police with his car
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, a serial swindler who featured in Netflix documentary, allegedly injured officers in getaway attempt.
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How Favbet owner Andriy Matyukha helped the Kremlin launder billions through the Ukrainian gambling business
An interesting case is being considered in the Dnipropetrovsk Economic Court, involving the withdrawal of money from gambling through the payment system "Diamond Pay". It is interesting because of the reasons that lead directly to Russian special services, which control a significant part of Ukraine’s gambling market.
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Owner of the spyware implicated in the WhatsApp breach terminates their contract with Italy
Decision comes after it emerged an Italian investigative journalist and two activists targeted by Paragon Solutions spyware.
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Power cut disrupts billion-dollar global scam industry, but doubts remain about its impact on stopping the swindling
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.
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UK plans to simplify the process for building nuclear reactors
The government has announced plans to make it easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales, as part of its efforts to boost UK economic growth.
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The Silicon Valley prodigy linked to the Zizian trans ’death cult’ is implicated in six killings
’Jack Amadeus LaSota left our lives but not our hearts on August 19 after a boating accident,’ an obituary, published on the Daily News-Miner on September 7 2022, read.
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Donald Trump signs executive order prohibiting trans women athletes from participating in female sports
Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders in his first days and weeks in office, with three targeting transgender people.
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Met Police arrest hundreds in one week during crackdown on phone thefts
The Metropolitan Police described the reselling of stolen phones abroad and in the UK as a £50million-a-year trade.
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American gang believed they would make a fortune but were busted at a UK airport after hiding in toilets
Seven people were arrested when the huge haul was discovered after a bag went through an X-ray machine and the alarm was raised at Manchester Airport.
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Three teenagers tragically die in a horror crash on a country lane after attending a house party
Dafydd Huw Craven-Jones only had his driving licence for less than six months prior to the crash in Penkridge, Staffordshire, which killed him and passengers Morgan Jones and Sophie Bates.
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Families of Grenfell Tower victims informed that the block will be demolished
The families of the people killed in the Grenfell Tower fire have been told the block will be demolished, it is understood.
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Chelsea striker Sam Kerr claims that police treated her differently because of her skin color during her harassment trial
Chelsea women’s footballer Sam Kerr has claimed police treated her differently "because of the colour of my skin" after an incident in which she alleges a taxi driver took her and her husband “hostage”.
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Two more individuals plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme in the US
Ayan Jama and Mekfira Hussein pleaded guilty to their role in stealing $250 million from a U.S. federal program meant to feed hungry children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ukrainian police dismantle an amphetamine cartel
The network reeled in monthly profits of up to 18 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($431,923) from the production and selling of 60 kg of amphetamine to 18 drug labs nation-wide.
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Keir Starmer decides not to attend the international AI summit in Paris
PM risks upsetting host Emmanuel Macron and missing chance to speak to JD Vance and Elon Musk.
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MPs informed that a misspelling of the Southport killer’s name may have led Prevent to close the case
Review finds Axel Rudakubana’s surname was incorrect in one of three referrals to scheme to spot potential terrorists.
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The Kremlin-run bot network Doppelgänger is distributing an AI-generated video in the style of Little Big, advocating for the lifting of sanctions against Russia
The Kremlin-run bot network Doppelgänger has begun spreading an AI-generated video mimicking the visual style of Little Big, the Russian band behind the 2018 viral hit “Skibidi.”
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Putin has depleted nearly all Soviet military stockpiles, leading to a reduction in the intensity of the war in Ukraine
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. It has also resulted in the largest depletion of military equipment in 80 years.
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Actor and former boxer P.H. Moriarty, known for his roles in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Jaws, dies at 86
Tributes have flooded in for British actor P.H. Moriarty who has died at the age of 86.
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Apple issues warning to iPhone users about the first-ever pornographic app
A pornography app is now available to all iPhones in the EU after a rule change.
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Cambridge police launch investigation after multiple trains were struck by projectiles
Drivers raise safety concerns as projectiles ‘aimed at’ services close to Cambridge North station, damaging trains.
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24-year-old Briton dies during a dream holiday to Sri Lanka after their hostel was fumigated for bedbugs
Family members of the young woman, named Ebony, have said she died on February 1 "within a few hours of arriving at the hospital" after her hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated.
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US military begins flying migrants to Guantanamo Bay for the first time
The first U.S. military aircraft carrying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay departed on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump’s administration prepares to potentially house tens of thousands of migrants at the naval base in Cuba.
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£1.4 million jewelry shop heist that led to the manager’s suicide was revealed to be staged
A £1.4 million heist at a luxury jewellery store was an inside job as part of an insurance scam and ‘everyone was consenting’, one of the accused robbers has told jurors.
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KyberSwap hacker faces a five-count criminal indictment for stealing $65 million
Andean Medjedovic is accused of exploiting DeFi protocols KyberSwap and Indexed Finance.