All news for 2025-02-25

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Fyre Festival 2 confirmed as the fraudulent founder causes outrage with $1,000,000 tickets
Billy McFarland, the founder of the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival, has shocked the world by confirming a sequel event, Fyre Festival II.
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2 Members of the European Parliament refused entry to Israel
Lynn Boylan and Rima Hassan were turned away on the same day that Israel and the EU held talks.
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Sex offenders will be prevented from evading detection by changing their name
Sex offenders will no longer be able to change their name and hide from the consequences of their crimes under new measures to be introduced by the government today.
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Heroic Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who leaped onto JFK and Jackie after assassination, dies at age 93
Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine after the president was shot, has died at the age of 93.
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Schoolboy stabbed, then struck by a car
The event left a trail of evidence from Crosby to Waterloo.
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Dashcam footage captures fatal bridge collapse in South Korea
Sections of a partly constructed elevated motorway in Anseong collapsed one after the other, killing at least three construction workers.
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Leonardo Cositorto convicted of Generation Zoe fraud
Generation Zoe Ponzi founder Leonardo Cositorto has been found guilty of fraud and criminal association.
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More than 160 Gazan medical personnel held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture
Senior doctors allege they endured months of physical abuse, while the UN urges the release of those still detained.
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TCC’s Douver Braga detained in Switzerland, extradited to the US
Douver Torres Braga, 48, has been charged with criminal offenses related to Trade Coin Club.
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Donald Trump supports Russia in rejecting the UN resolution demanding that its troops withdraw from Ukraine
Donald Trump last night sided with Russia to snub a UN resolution demanding its troops leave Ukraine.
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Energy bills are set to increase for millions of households this spring as the price cap is raised to £1,849
Energy bills will rise for millions of households this spring.
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Thieves stole a £2.8m gold toilet at Blenheim Palace in only five minutes, court hears
The prosecution told Oxford Crown Court that the 18-carat gold toilet, titled America and created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, weighed approximately 98kg and had been insured for $6m (£4.75m).
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Over 50 new laws to be unveiled today in the biggest crime-fighting shake-up in decades
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper states that a series of new laws will help ’take back our town centres’ as she introduces the much-anticipated Crime and Policing Bill, which includes measures on knife crime, stalking, and thefts.
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United States sides with Russia twice in unsuccessful UN votes regarding Ukraine, as the assembly calls for an end to the conflict
The United States supported Russia in two UN votes concerning the war in Ukraine on Monday night, commemorating the third anniversary of the invasion.
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Czech police detain 22 individuals in a $167 million EU funds corruption case
Czech officials expose alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme at leading hospital, arresting 22 in EU funds investigation.
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Police may be granted authority to raid the homes of phone thieves as a prominent Bill is introduced to parliament
Police could soon have the ability to enter homes where stolen phones have been tracked, without needing prior court approval.
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Harrow crash: One person dead and child, 9, seriously injured in bus collision
Shocking photographs reveal the aftermath of the collision between a bus and a car on Whitmore Road in Harrow, northwest London, prompting the swift response of emergency services.
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