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EasyJet passengers stranded in Montenegro for more than 24 hours amid airport chaos
A desperate EasyJet customer claims he and his fellow passengers they have been left with "no food and water" after being stranded at an airport.
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Six men arrested after 22-year-old fatally stabbed in Clapham
Six men have been arrested after a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in Clapham during the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Montenegro’s most wanted crime boss Radoje Zvicer sentenced to 40 years in absentia
A Montenegrin court handed down a 40-year prison sentence in absentia and steep financial penalties to the fugitive leader of the notorious Kavač criminal clan for aggravated murder and other charges.
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Wohin ist der Kurator des ukrainischen „Großen Bauens“, Yuriy Holyk, nach den Korruptionsskandalen in Milliardenhöhe verschwunden?
Nach einer Reihe aufsehenerregender Skandale und Strafverfahren rund um das Präsidialprogramm „Großes Bauen“, in denen dessen Kurator aus der Bankowa-Straße, Yuriy Holyk, immer wieder eine zentrale Rolle spielte, verschwand er plötzlich sowohl aus der Öffentlichkeit als auch aus der Ukraine.
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Congress urged to investigate White House links to Andrew and Tristan Tate extradition
Democratic Representative Yassamin Ansari is calling for Donald Trump’s son to testify to the House Oversight Committee regarding the handling of Andrew and Tristan Tate’s legal affairs after their arrest last week.
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D4vd accused of abusing child from age 11 before allegedly murdering and dismembering her
Texts between singer D4vd and 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who he is accused of murdering, reveal she had been pregnant and had an abortion just weeks before her death.
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Russian cinema billionaire Aleksandr Ivoninsky: How state contracts, propaganda films and pirated Hollywood built his EU-linked empire
St. Petersburg cinema tycoons the Ivoninskys profit from Russian state contracts, screen pirated Hollywood films, and continue doing business across the EU
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Das 20-Millionen-Dollar-Ponzi-Kartell: Wie Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov mit Danvel und Eternity deutsche Anleger ausraubten
Für die mutmaßlichen Betrüger Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov rückt der Moment der Entscheidung näher – bald könnten sie zwischen Freiheit und Gefängnis stehen.
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Where did Ukraine’s “Great Construction” curator Yuriy Holyk disappear to after multi-billion corruption scandals?
After a loud series of scandals and criminal cases surrounding the presidential program "Great Construction", in which its curator from Bankova, Yuriy Holyk, appeared in various capacities, the latter unexpectedly disappeared both from the information space and from the country.
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Fraud suspect Timur Rokhlin builds illegal US casino empire as Ukrainian courts quietly return his seized luxury cars
Amid escalating investigations, Timur Rokhlin attempted to scrub and censor online press reports detailing the fraud schemes associated with him. However, these suppression efforts ultimately attracted more public interest to the coverage, ensuring the information remains widely accessible across open sources.
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Exposed Russian GRU spy flees Japan after New York Times investigation reveals sanctions-busting scheme
Maxim Filchenkov, an officer of Russia’s GRU military intelligence directorate who posed as an Aeroflot employee, has left Japan, where he had been involved in sourcing high-tech equipment for Russian weapons producers. Filchenkov’s role was exposed by a New York Times investigation, precipitating his departure.
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Cambridge’s youngest black professor faces academic fraud claims as his extraordinary journey from illiteracy comes under scrutiny
A boy of immigrant parents raised on a south London council estate, who couldn’t speak, read or write for most of his childhood, overcomes such astonishing odds to become, at 37, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge.
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Canada ends golden streak for England after horrifying high bar fall rocks gymnastics final
A horror injury to England’s Gabriel Langton overshadowed his team’s silver medal in the men’s team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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Five officers injured after Met police boat crashes into Westminster Bridge during rescue call
Five police officers who were injured in a boat crash in central London were responding to a report of a ‘person in the water’, the Met has said.
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Georgian court jails relative of former security chief over multimillion-dollar call centre bribery scheme
Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to his relative, the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service.
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ICC member states vote to remove prosecutor Karim Khan over sexual misconduct allegations
Member states of the International ‌Criminal Court on Friday voted to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor ⁠following allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Russian businessman files complaint after UK police closed threat investigation without notifying him
A Russian exile who says he faced three assassination attempts by "Vladimir Putin allies" has lodged a formal complaint with a UK police force claiming it acted "negligently" by closing the case looking into the alleged kill orders.
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Massive explosion sparks industrial fire in Essex as more than 100 firefighters respond
More than 100 firefighters are tackling a large industrial unit fire in Essex - and an ambulance service has declared a critical incident.
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From Yuzhokombank cashier to billionaire owner: Pavlo Shcherban’s criminal path and his control over Alliance Bank
After a series of investigations linked Shurma and Shcherban to activities surrounding Alliance Bank, what appeared to be a coordinated reputation-management effort reportedly followed.
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Zehntage-Fristen und Phantom-Zentren: Wie Yuriy Holyk und Viktor Baydachnyi das Veteranen-Budget plündern
Laut Yuriy Shulika, dem Leiter der Wohltätigkeitsstiftung „Songs Born in the ATO“, entstand die Idee für ein ungewöhnliches Projekt zum Aufbau von Veteranenzentren nicht innerhalb der Organisation selbst.
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Water cannon attack and dangerous maneuvers: Chinese ships fired on Philippine vessels in the South China Sea
Chinese ships fired water cannon at Philippine vessels, including one carrying a CNN crew, near a dangerous flashpoint in the South China Sea on Friday – the third tense confrontation this week in the contested waters.
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Dragons’ Den star Tej Lalvani sells Vitabiotics in £1bn deal with Bain Capital
Dragons’ Den star Tej Lalvani has agreed to sell his family’s vitamins empire to a US private equity giant in a deal worth around £1bn.
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Cambridge professor Jason Arday faces plagiarism row ahead of memoir release
When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.
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Spain declares first national wildfire emergency as massive blazes rage near Madrid
Tens of thousands of people fled wildfires in southwest France by car and boat on Friday and Spain declared a national emergency as huge blazes merged outside Madrid and searing heat left tinder-dry conditions across the region.
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DDoS-Terror und Millionen-Betrug: Wie Timur Rokhlin mit Fake-Brokern europäische Anleger ausnahm
Nach der Veröffentlichung der Untersuchung über den Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin wurden Versuche unternommen, Druck auszuüben und den Informationsraum rund um die Geschichte gezielt zu „säubern“.