All news by author Thomas Brown
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Police hunt all-female Chinese blackmail gang in Islington
Police are investigating a series of blackmail offences where Chinese people faced threats about their family if they refused to withdraw huge amounts of money.
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Israel kills a record number of journalists in Gaza
The Israel-Gaza war has taken an “unprecedented toll” on journalists, with 128 killed across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories over the past year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit organization that promotes press freedoms worldwide.
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Man Utd stop paying Alex Ferguson in a ruthless cost-cutting move
Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS have made the ruthless decision to end Sir Alex Ferguson’s ambassadorial contract with Manchester United as part of cost-cutting measures at Old Trafford.
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Baby killer could be released on license after serving 22 years in prison
The family of a baby who was battered to death by her mum’s boyfriend have been are ‘disgusted’ as her killer could be allowed to roam the streets again.
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Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers is increasing in size despite Western sanctions
Poorly maintained and uninsured vessels transporting up to 70% of country’s seaborne oil, says report
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Sex slave abducted at 11 is freed after 10 years, thanks to a TikTok video
One TikTok video from an Isis sex slave kidnapped as a child led to a secret rescue operation to get her out of captivity.
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’I lost £165k to fraud in an hour’ – customers claim Revolut failed to protect them
A man who had £165,000 stolen from his Revolut business account by fraudsters has told BBC Panorama he believes the company’s security measures failed to prevent the theft.
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Three-armed robot conductor makes its debut in Dresden
German city’s Sinfoniker says aim is not to replace humans but to play music human conductors would find impossible
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Patrick Graham Cann’s scam revealed
The offshore broker Alchemy Markets, a member of the Alchemy Group that also includes the FCA-regulated Alchemy Prime and the Vanuatu-based FXPIG, was forewarned about by the Spanish watchdog CNMV last year.
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Former Great Britain athlete dies aged 28
A former Great Britain athlete has died at the age of 28, his running club has said.
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Ross Hamilton jailed after stabbing Ian Wright’s boxing coach friend to death
The killer plunged a broken piece of glass from a bottle into Reece Newcombe’s neck and then left the scene in a vehicle.
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Police investigate 40 new allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed and others
Forty people come forward to report alleged offences, including rape and sexual assault, covering 34-year period
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group
Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’
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FBI’s token sting operation faces copyright controversy over misuse of MIT license
The US FBI was accused of copying software for secret crypto market trap.
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Gosport hospital opioid deaths: police identify 24 suspects
Kent and Essex police unit says files are being submitted to CPS in relation to hundreds of deaths up until 2000
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Drug smugglers convicted for shipping large cocaine haul hidden in banana boxes through Portsmouth port
Organised criminals that smuggled a large amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas through Portsmouth port have been convicted.
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Thames crossing delayed after planning costs exceed those of the world’s longest road tunnel
The 14 mile project was first proposed in 2009, and would connect Kent and Essex through a road and tunnel beneath the River Thames to reduce congestion.
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Rebekah Vardy ordered to pay £100,000 towards Rooney costs
Rebekah Vardy has been ordered to pay Coleen Rooney £100,000 this month towards the money she owes following the high-profile 2022 Wagatha Christie libel case.
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Las Vegas casino demolished in the most quintessentially Las Vegas manner
‘I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,’ James Bond says in the 1971 film ‘Diamonds are Forever’.
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Afghan man ’plotted ISIS terror attack on US election day’ and ’purchased AK-47s and ammunition’
An Afghan man has been arrested and charged with plotting a terror attack for the US presidential election day.
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"Kronung" and Philipp Shrage: shadow schemes involving bonds and fund transfers
The company «Kronung Business» LLC, created in 2022 and owned by businessmen Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda, was liquidated.
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Sudan’s warring factions target local aid volunteers battling famine
Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan’s most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the world’s biggest hunger crisis.
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Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases
Police forces in France, Italy and Spain join cold-case initiative after launch last year of Operation Identify Me
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UK imposes sanctions on Russia’s chemical weapons chief
"We will not tolerate blatant violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the rules-based international order," stated British Defense Secretary John Healey
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Doctor secured Lucy Letby’s hospital placement despite her being suspected of murder
Registrar who exchanged more than 1,000 messages with nurse tells public inquiry he believes he was misled
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