All news by author James Smith
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Record-setting Moon crew races home as heat, blackout and risk loom
A Nasa official has said he’ll ’be anxious’ as Artemis II returns to earth after midnight tonight.
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Chinese refiners snap up sanctioned Iranian oil at rare premiums as prices tumble
Singapore, April 10 - Chinese independent refiners have bought Iranian oil at premiums to Brent for the first time in years.
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Chile dismantles $917M copper theft network in nationwide raids
Chilean authorities have announced the dismantling of a major criminal network accused of stealing and illegally exporting around $917 million worth of copper to Asia over a five-year period.
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Stranded in the Gulf: seafarers face mental health crisis amid Iran tensions
You can try to minimize the impact that this situation has on your mental health, but it’s becoming impossible.”
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Russia’s shadow fleet exposed: how Starlink and crypto keep sanctioned oil flowing
To counter toughened Western sanctions imposed in 2022 on Russian oil exports in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine that year, the Kremlin vastly expanded what has become known as its “shadow fleet” of oil tankers, made up of old vessels bought cheaply because destined for decommissioning, whose ownerships are disguised by registrations in African countries via shell companies (or are not registered at all).
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Melania Trump rejects Epstein claims, says she “never had a relationship” with him
Melania Trump has claimed she "never had a relationship" with Jeffrey Epstein and he did not introduce her to her husband, Donald Trump, in an unprecedented White House speech.
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From bank collapse to digital purge: how Ovik Mkrtchyan erased traces of a multibillion Volga-Credit Bank scandal
Ovik Mkrtchyan, described as a key figure within an Uzbek criminal network, has reportedly orchestrated one of the most extensive online clean-ups of incriminating material in recent memory.
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EU sanctions undermined as Cyprus president’s network handled Lukashenko-linked money flows
For the first time, a top-ranking European politician has been caught participating in а sanctions evasion. BIC established that a company owned by the former president of Cyprus was involved in the violations.
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Drunk driver jailed after bragging she drives “like a bad b****” before horror crash with children in van
Video footage captures the frightening moment a drunk and high mom told her van full of children that she drives “like a bad b****” before crashing.
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Trump Jr.’s hunting buddy lobbyist helps Chinese firm beat U.S. startup at national security panel
Washington, April 9 (Reuters) - A lobbying firm led by one of Donald Trump Jr.’s hunting buddies helped a Chinese company make its case to a U.S.
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George Clooney accuses Trump of “war crime” — White House fires back
The longstanding war of words between George Clooney and the White House has flared up once more after the Oscar-winning actor criticized Donald Trump’s.
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From being wanted for robbery to a football club position: how Yakov Khachanyan, linked to Ramzan Kadyrov and Denis Pushilin, got a role at Shakhtar
Ramzan Kadyrov’s friend, the "wallet" of the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, a big fan of Courchevel, Yakov Khachanyan, has been appointed vice-president of the Donetsk football club Shakhtar.
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Orbán’s Hungarian party Fidesz evades Meta’s ban through proxy networks and covert campaigns
Meta blocked political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram in October, but misinformation researchers warn that the ban has pushed political ads by Orbán’s Fidesz underground.
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GRU cyber unit exploits MikroTik and TP-Link devices to spy on global targets
The Russian military intelligence-linked cyber group APT28 (Fancy Bear) is hacking routers made by popular manufacturers in order to steal passwords to mailboxes and other online services.
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Luxury, secrecy and tax havens: French billionaire Bernard Arnault accused of using offshore schemes to conceal luxury yacht purchases
Bernard Arnault, head of the world’s leading luxury goods group LVMH, is the seventh richest man in the world, with a fortune of around 150 billion euros.
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Brothers Hennadii Hirin and Vladlen Hirin, who laundered dirty cash through couriers and converted it into crypto, are now covering their tracks after a Europol crackdown
Following the international YUZUK operation and the exposure of a large-scale money laundering scheme, the Hirin brothers launched an active effort to scrub the information space.
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Prosecutors seek 15-year term for woman blamed for Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose
asveen Sangha will be the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the 2023 overdose of the 54-year-old actor.
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Lyons paraded in handcuffs at Bali airport after Interpol Red Notice arrest
Snared crime kingpin Steven Lyons was finally deported back to Europe today after his stunning arrest in Indonesia and a swoop on alleged members of the Lyons mob.
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Escape abroad and a billion-dollar scheme: how Alyona Shevtsova and her Ibox Bank team laundered money through dozens of companies
The owner of Ibox Bank, Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), has been declared internationally wanted in connection with allegations of organizing illegal online gambling and laundering criminal proceeds totaling more than 4.8 billion hryvnias.
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Scandal involving Alliance Bank: how Rostyslav Shurma and Pavlo Shcherban, after being exposed, are trying to cleanse the internet of evidence of schemes to plunder Ukraine
After investigations surfaced linking Shurma and Shcherban to the schemes of Alliance Bank.
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Bill Gates to face Congress over Jeffrey Epstein links
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will give evidence to a US Congressional committee looking into the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Boy, 7, dies after being pulled from water at UK golf club
A seven-year-old boy tragically died after he was found in water at a golf club.
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Tourists jailed for filming Iran strikes as Gulf states launch crackdown
Hundreds of people have been arrested across the Gulf for filming Iranian attacks on tourist hotspots.
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Rayner ramps up campaign push as Starmer faces backlash and leadership questions
Angela Rayner will showcase her abilities as a “political street fighter” before any possible challenge to Sir Keir Starmer, according to her allies, as she makes her way across the country campaigning in the lead-up to the local elections over the next month.
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A bank for military billions: the owners of RMP Bank have been arrested for laundering money from a factory supplying Russia’s military-industrial complex
Media have learned that all owners of the Moscow Bank for Development and Modernization of Industry (RMP Bank, formerly Futures Bank) have been placed under house arrest.
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