All news for 2025-06-16

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Under the roof of VEB.RF: offshore, CSKA and "charity" - how Oleg Belay built an empire on sham deals
The dubious businessman with a secretive enterprise has not yet found himself in the "Matrosskaya Tishina" detention center. Why?
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Verdict reached in Madrid for racist attack on Vinícius: defendants avoid jail sentences
Four people have been handed suspended jail sentences by a Madrid court after being found guilty of a hate crime related to an effigy of the Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior.
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It was a massacre: Iranian doctors shocked by the scale of casualties after Israeli bombings
Exhausted medical workers say facilities are overwhelmed and death toll is higher than 224 reported
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Truck overturns near London Stansted airport: hundreds of passengers risk missing flights
Holidaymakers are at risk of missing their flights after an overturned lorry closed the M11 near London Stansted Airport.
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“God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi: the Mafia, the Vatican, and his unsolved murder under London’s bridge
Forty-three years ago this week, the BBC covered the death of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker whose body was discovered in unusual circumstances in the center of London.
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Blaise Metreveli becomes the first woman to lead Britain’s MI6 intelligence service
Blaise Metreweli is appointed as Britain’s top intelligence officer as the country encounters “threats on an unprecedented scale,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer states.
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On NATO’s eastern flank, medics prepare for war: bulletproof vests, medicine stockpiles, and field hospitals
From accumulating trauma kits for mass casualties to equipping medics with body armor, wartime health planning is no longer hypothetical on NATO’s eastern flank.
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British soldier who killed woman with a meat grinder and dismembered her may be released after 18 years in prison
A soldier who brutally killed a young mother with a meat cleaver could soon be released from prison.
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British tour operator Great Little Escapes loses ATOL licence — customers’ summer holidays at risk
Great Little Escapes, based in Berkshire, used to specialise in a variety of different holidays, but now it has ceased trading as an ATOL holder, meaning its holiday bookings are in doubt
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Father of Jakob Ingebrigtsen convicted of assaulting daughter, but cleared of charges from Olympic son’s allegations
Gjert Ingebrigtsen handed suspended prison sentence and fined for hitting daughter with a wet towel - but ex-coach acquitted of charges against superstar son
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London nursery worker sentenced for assaulting and neglecting 24 children across two childcare centers
Former nursery worker Roksana Lecka has been convicted of abusing children as young as ten months who were left in her care.
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Archaeological excavations begin in Ireland at a mass grave site of children from a mother-and-baby home
Excavations have started in the search for nearly 800 babies believed to be buried in a mass grave at a home for unmarried mothers in Ireland.
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TfL fines Lime and Forest more than £30,000 for abandoned e‑bikes
E-bike firm warns London has fallen behind Paris in setting rules for hire bikes
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Fuel prices in the UK to rise by 5 pence due to oil panic amid Israel–Iran conflict
Oil price increase likely to add 5p to petrol and diesel over the next couple of months, expert says
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Suspect in Minnesota politicians’ murder captured after two-day manhunt
A man suspected of fatally shooting a US politician and her husband in a targeted assassination has been arrested, according to police.
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UK launches major operation against paedophile rings — NCA to review cases
The Home Office has announced the National Crime Agency (NCA) will carry out a nationwide operation to target and jail predators who have sexually exploited children as part of grooming gangs.