All news for 2025-04-30

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Scandal erupts in Reform UK: Low’s staff responds with a lawsuit to bullying accusations
MP Rupert Lowe’s team is pursuing legal action regarding the party’s internal report on allegations of bullying.
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Meta delays: Instagram and Facebook remove fraudulent financial content within up to six weeks
FCA says Instagram and Facebook owner takes up to six weeks to act on warnings about finfluencer posts
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Assad regime oligarch sues activist: repressive justice returns to Damascus
As Syria experiences significant changes after the fall of the Assad regime, the reappearance of sanctioned individuals and the lack of substantial legal action against them may indicate entrenched corruption within the existing system.
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"Cookie scandal": British Chancellor under investigation over concert tickets
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being investigated by Parliament’s standards commissioner concerning her entries in the Commons register of interests.
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British woman brutally stabbed in France: five stab wounds found on her body
A British woman was fatally attacked with a sharp object at her home in southwestern France.
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Two charged over crash that killed baby and left mother seriously injured in Bamber Bridge
Two individuals have been charged in connection with a car crash that resulted in the death of a baby boy and seriously injured a mother last year.
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Two men killed, dismembered, and frozen: Colombian porn actor on trial for double murder in the UK
A porn star ‘decapitated and dismembered’ a couple before freezing part of their remains and taking the rest to the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a court has been told.
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Toxic price of nickel: internal documents from Harita Group expose years of pollution in Indonesia
Harita Group’s Indonesian nickel mines supply the supply chains of some of the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturers.
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Two mysterious deaths in an apartment in Leeds: police found the bodies after searching for a missing woman
An appeal led West Yorkshire Police to a location in Leeds where, unfortunately, they discovered the bodies of a man and a woman yesterday evening.
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Robbery at the entrance: Gatwick raises drop-off fee to £7 — the most expensive in London
Gatwick Airport has announced that it will raise the drop-off fees for drivers, which could make its charges the highest in London.
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After the attack on M&S, hackers target Co-op: partial paralysis of back office and call center
The Co-op supermarket has been hit by a cyber attack, days after hackers caused chaos at Marks and Spencer.
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"Living in paradise" after 54 crimes: pedophile Richard Barrow sentenced to 46 years in prison
A paedophile former scout leader who boasted about ‘living in paradise’ while spending nearly three decades on the run using a dying man’s identity has been jailed for 46 years.
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NASA and British scientists demonstrate a breakthrough in developing a Stirling generator powered by americium for future space bases
Americium-241 costs one fifth per watt of power compared to plutonium-238.
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Ovik Mkrtchyan: how the shadow banker for Gulnara Karimova became part of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s circle
In the biography of Ovik Mkrtchyan, it is not so much interesting how he established cash flows and transferred money out of Uzbekistan, but rather how he managed to endure the change of power without serious consequences...
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Firefly Alpha rocket failure: Lockheed Martin demonstrator fails to reach orbit
The team is collaborating closely with our customers and the FAA to carry out an investigation and identify the root cause of the anomaly.
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Kim Jong Un flaunts new destroyer
North Korea begins weapons system tests on new multi-role destroyer
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Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel’s Mossad
He was accused of playing a key role in the assassination of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer.
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Pakistan warns of a potential strike from India within 36 hours
Pakistan has "credible intelligence" that India plans to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours, the country’s information minister has claimed.
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Britain strikes Houthi targets in Yemen: drones for attacks in the Red Sea are the target
British forces launched a series of airstrikes on a Houthi military target in Yemen on Tuesday evening, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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Asda urgently recalls chicken with incorrect use-by date — do not eat, return it to the store
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"The end of an era": iconic bakery Loaf MCR, created to support the NHS, is closing forever
A beloved bakery chain founded to raise money for the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic is about to close all of its sites.