All news for 2025-12-14

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“I ran for my life”: Married At First Sight star recounts Bondi Beach terror attack that killed 12
Reality TV personality Lauren Dunn, who appeared on Married At First Sight Australia, said she “ran for her life” after gunmen opened fire during a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney, which left at least 12 people dead and dozens injured.
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Holocaust survivor identified among victims of terrorist shooting at Hanukkah event in Sydney
A Bondi Beach terrorist attack victim who was shot in the head has been identified as a Holocaust survivor.
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Before fleeing Russia, Roman Novak and Pavel Durov were tied to a large-scale investor scam
In 2016–2017, Roman Novak stole more than 7.3 million rubles from two St. Petersburg businessmen.
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Wanted oligarch Boris Usherovich runs a Cyprus-based network to bypass sanctions and supply Russia’s railways
An investigation exposes how fugitive Russian businessmen Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa built a Cyprus-based offshore network to launder money, evade sanctions, and secretly supply prohibited equipment to Russian Railways while financing Kremlin political projects.
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Iskander Tursunov and Octobank: how an Uzbek bank became the settlement hub for illegal casinos in Russia
Media outlets have released an investigation into the criminal financial activities of a group of companies that includes the credit institutions Octobank (formerly Ravnaq), Capital Bank, the Humo payment system, the Uzcard processing center, the Uznex exchange, and others.
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Thousands of Ghanaian PhD students face deportation from the UK after government fails to pay £32 million in scholarships
Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.
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Bondi Beach shooting during Hanukkah celebration leaves 12 dead: suspect identified as terror attack declared
One of the suspected gunmen from the Bondi Beach incident has been identified, after 12 people were killed and at least 29 were injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah party.
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Brown University shooting leaves two dead, nine injured; person of interest detained
Police in Rhode Island have detained a "person of interest" after a gunman opened fire at Brown University, killing two people.
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Arson, casinos and the mafia: how the murder of Demosthenous triggered a carve-up of Dmitriy Punin’s gambling business in Cyprus
The duumvirate collapsed in October after the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also suffered—his car fleet was burned. Could this mean that he is next?
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Josip Heit and the anatomy of a crypto pyramid: how money flowed from small investors to offshore assets
State prosecutors are conducting preliminary checks into the business activities of international entrepreneur Josip Heit, who has roots in Split, over alleged money laundering, while various foreign jurisdictions have been scrutinizing his operations for years.
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The Solntsevskaya trail in Russian politics: how Elena Likhach became Andrey Skoch’s financial operator
Russian State Duma deputy Andrey Skoch, known as "Bluebeard" (criminal nickname — "Scotch"), has 3 wives and 10 children.
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Nine killed in mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Two gunmen opened fire at a popular beach destination in Sydney, Australia, killing nine people.
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UK police decline to investigate claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sought to smear Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Giuffre’s family have said they are "deeply disappointed" by the Metropolitan Police’s decision not to investigate reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an officer to help dig up dirt on her.
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Mikhail Koryak, accused of posing as a Kremlin insider, may be extradited over fraud and murder allegations
Mikhail Koryak, described by investigators as one of the leaders of an international criminal network involved in fraud and contract killings, may soon be extradited to Russia, according to sources familiar with the case.