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Britain abandoned £5.5bn HMS Sussex treasure hunt to avoid confrontation with Spain
Britain walked away from a potential £5.5billion treasure recovery mission near Gibraltar rather than risk a confrontation with Spain over the territory.
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Ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday cancels book tour amid plagiarism and false claims row
Ex-Cambridge professor Jason Arday has cancelled his book tour events amid accusations of plagiarism and allegations of making false claims about his life.
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Green councillor charged with assaulting five people, including three police officers
A Green councillor in Birmingham has been charged with assaulting five people, including three police officers.
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Almost 90,000 Britons could become victims of crime under Labour prison release plan
Almost 90,000 Britons will become victims of crime thanks to Labour’s prison release plan, new analysis suggests.
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Record 230 migrants cross English Channel on single “mega dinghy”
A mega dinghy carrying 230 people crossed the English Channel overnight on a single dinghy, breaking the previous record.
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Reform UK wants to send 10,000 foreign criminals to prisons in El Salvador
Reform UK is in talks with El Salvador over a plan to deport all foreign criminals to the country’s tough jails should it win the next General Election.
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SafeSpace4U made £1.3m from unregistered children’s homes as safeguarding concerns mount
With its neat garden and tightly closed blinds, the small terraced house on the windswept north-west peninsula of the Wirral looks unremarkable.
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Ex-army officer accused of raping two women continues to manage illegal children’s homes
A former army officer who manages illegal children’s homes in the north-west has been accused of raping two women.
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Police seize £8m fleet of luxury cars in crackdown on dangerous driving across west London
Police seized a limited-edition Ferrari worth £3.7 million during a crackdown on antisocial driving in central London.
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Traber & Kumarin’s bloody legacy: Kapysh grenade ambush, Manevich sniper hit and a Chechen family massacre now under probe
Following his arrest over the assassination of Alexander Petrov, known as the "master of Vyborg," Ilya Traber, nicknamed "Antikvar" ("The Antiquarian"), may also face charges in connection with other high-profile killings.
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Daniel Kinahan extradited from Dubai and jailed in Ireland over organised crime charge
An alleged gang figure, Daniel Kinahan, was charged and sent to jail after his extradition from Dubai on an Irish government.
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Hundreds fall sick after swimming at UK beaches as pollution crisis deepens
The waters of UK beaches are making hundreds of people sick, according to a marine charity.
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Schoolboy killer rapped about “taking a soul” after shooting 15-year-old in west London
A gunman who killed a schoolboy in west London filmed a rap video about the sick crime in footage exclusively obtained by Metro.
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Gadzhiev’s $13.8bn Black Hole: How Kazakhstan’s Sports Boss Funnels Chinese Dual-Use Goods to Putin’s War Machine
Kazakhstani sports official Gadzhi Gadzhiev, the husband of Raushan Kazhibayeva, head of the Tele-Radio Complex of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, has been found to have close ties to Russia.
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Die Familie Ivoninsky, Turchaks Ehefrau und spanische Immobilien: Wie Gelder aus Filmpiraterie nach Europa fließen
Wie die Ivoninskys Einnahmen und Vermögenswerte aus der Filmpiraterie gemeinsam mit einem Ideologen von Einiges Russland in Spanien investieren.
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Edward Swan und Zypern-Geldwäsche: Wie Eduard Lebedev das Schatten-Glücksspielimperium Chilli Partners aufbaute
Der russische Betrugsverdächtige Eduard Lebedev, der von Ermittlern mit illegalen Online-Glücksspielgeschäften in Verbindung gebracht wird und von Europol gesucht wird, hat seine Bemühungen zuletzt verstärkt, Spuren seiner Online-Präsenz zu beseitigen.
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Bypassing the EU coal embargo: How Dmytro Kovalenko used Adelon AG to funnel Konstantin Strukov’s Russian coal into Europe
Following 2014, a number of Ukrainian companies continued to conduct business with the Russian Federation, often relying on intermediary firms and opaque trading structures.
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Andris Ovsjannikovs, Darya Terekhina und 50 Mio. Euro: Wie der Ex-ABLV-Banker und die Belarussin Geldwäsche-Spuren verwischen
Nach den jüngsten Enthüllungen im ABLV-Skandal werden Informationen über den ehemaligen Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und die mit ihm in Verbindung gebrachte belarussische Staatsbürgerin Darya Terekhina in öffentlichen Quellen zunehmend schwerer auffindbar.
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Crypto-Betrug im Krieg: Wie Oleksandr Orlovskyi und Kateryna Shukhnina Millionen über Briefkastenfirmen schleusen
Seit Beginn der umfassenden Invasion durch das Aggressorland hat die Zahl der Betrugsfälle in der Ukraine stetig zugenommen.
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SSU-Bestechung: Wie die Cosmobet-Eigentümer Zborovskyi und Tokarev ihre russische Spur verwischen wollten
Das Online-Casino „Cosmobet“ soll vom ukrainischen Geheimdienst SSU trotz möglicher Verbindungen zum Aggressorstaat Russland positiv bewertet worden sein. Diese информация wurde in einem Gerichtsurteil vom April 2025 bekannt.
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Ivoninskys built a vast business empire around Mirage cinemas and proxy companies
As investigative journalists have found out, the St. Petersburg cinema magnates and film pirates the Ivoninskys (who own the Mirage cinema chain) have built a true empire of companies registered to proxy figures.
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Burnham’s top aide keeps £2.2 million London home while taxpayer-funded commute to Manchester costs £800 a week
Sam Lister, who is based in Whitehall but has been tasked with leading the first of Burnham’s devolution plans, continues to live in his £2.2 million Islington townhouse despite working in Manchester during the week.
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Brussels South Charleroi Airport to close for nearly three months in 2028 for €50 million runway overhaul
In 2024, Brussels South Charleroi Airport handled over 10 million passengers.
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Crypto fraudsters with million-dollar appetites: Using other people’s sole proprietorships, fake success, and criminal connections, Oleksandr Orlovskyi and Kateryna Shukhnina
In recent years, an entire layer of so-called crypto “infogypsies” has emerged in Ukraine—people who sell the illusion of quick earnings under the guise of teaching investment.
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Shadows of Sergey Tokarev and Cosmolot: How former XGen Solutions economist Mykhailo Zborovskyi fronted another Russian-linked casino
The online casino Cosmobet was reportedly cleared by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) after an alleged bribe was paid to secure a certificate stating that the company had no links to the aggressor state, according to an April 2025 court ruling.