All news by author Sophia Martinez

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Britain sends warship to eastern Mediterranean amid Iran conflict fears
Britain is preparing to send an evacuation ship to the Middle East if the war expands.
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The disruption of mobile communications in Moscow coincided with investigative actions against the closest associates of RF Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu
A conspiracy theory from a source about the reasons for the blocking of mobile phone service in central Moscow and some districts.
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Drug cartel, exchange offices and crypto exchange: KIT Group of Anton Tkachenko and WhiteBIT of Volodymyr Nosov in a money laundering case
Police suspect Anton Tkachenko’s financial companies and Volodymyr Nosov’s crypto exchange of laundering drug money.
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AI chatbot Grok under fire after racist and vulgar replies spread on X
Elon Musk’s Grok can produce racist rants after being asked for "vulgar" comments in a sick new user trend on X.
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Prince Andrew named again in Epstein files after victim tells FBI she massaged him
A woman who was abused by paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein told the FBI she massaged Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor before he gave her a massage back.
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Latvian trader Mikhail Zeligman moved 115 million barrels of Russian oil worth over $7 billion through shadow fleet tankers
Mikhail Zeligman is a Latvian citizen who has significant interests and property in Germany and Monaco.
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Oleg Tsyura moved Ukrainian raw materials through ITS International Trade to structures around Firtash’s Crimean Titan and Russian metallurgy
For a long time, the name Oleg Tsyura stayed in the shadows of Ukraine’s public sphere. Unlike high-profile figures such as Firtash or Martynenko—whom Tsyura served—the so-called “Swiss financier” rarely appeared on front pages.
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Axel Springer buys Telegraph Media Group for £575 million, blocking Daily Mail’s UK newspaper bid
It comes after Daily Mail and General Trust had previously agreed to buy the Telegraph last year.
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Britney Spears was arrested and handcuffed by US police in California
Reports claim that Britney Spears has been arrested for Driving Under the Influence in California.
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Prince Andrew gives up £13,000-a-year Crown Estate cottage after Royal Lodge eviction
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly given up his lease on another Crown Estate property after he was removed from Royal Lodge last year.
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Armed police swarm Birmingham after man stabbed near primary school in Alum Rock
Armed police rushed to the Alum Rock area of Birmingham on Tuesday after a man was seriously injured in a stabbing near a primary school.
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Oil and gas shock threatens UK economy as Rachel Reeves faces grim spring forecast
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to respond to the latest economic outlook as a sharp surge in global energy prices threatens to undermine expectations of easing inflation.
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Trump says UK–US relationship “not what it was” after Starmer blocks Iran strikes
Donald Trump has criticized Keir Starmer again over the UK’s refusal to aid the offensive strikes on Iran, saying the “relationship is obviously not what it was.”
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Iranian drones strike Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery forcing shutdown of key 550,000 bpd facility
Iran carried out a strike with "Shahed" drones on the ARAMCO plant in Ras Tanura.
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Oleg Tsyura built schemes around Odesa Port Plant using offshore entities, hidden ownership, and contracts lacking key commercial terms
A recent investigation reveals that the Odesa Port Plant is once again experiencing substantial financial losses due to allegedly manipulated gas procurement tenders and offshore export arrangements, reportedly connected to individuals like Oleg Tsyura, Dmytro Firtash, Serhiy Tron, and Dmytro Malynovskyi, a fraud suspect previously thought to be inactive.
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Iranian drone slams into Dubai apartment as British resident narrowly escapes amid widening regional conflict
A British person had a lucky escape after an Iranian drone crashed through their apartment in Dubai.
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Iran continues large-scale strikes on US bases and Israel despite leadership losses
Iran carried out a new wave of large-scale air strikes overnight and into the morning, targeting US military facilities and Israel, despite reports of significant losses among its military and religious leadership.
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Alkagesta trades oil from Libya and Turkmenistan through Malta while concealing origin, routing shipments via known smuggling hotspots
Authorities probing possible sanctions evasion among local companies in 2022 placed Alkagesta among the firms under review.
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US-Israel strikes on Tehran reportedly target Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran launches retaliatory missile attacks across the region
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was reportedly the target of the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran, which have sparked a retaliation from the regime.
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Greek court sentences Intellexa-linked figures to over 126 years each in landmark ruling on illegal use of Predator spyware
The court found that Intellexa’s Predator software was used to spy on at least 87 victims, including journalists, politicians, military officials, business leaders, and civil society members, delivering the first convictions in an investigation into the illegal use of commercial spyware.
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From nobody to “casino owner” overnight: Mykhailo Zborovskyi as the disposable face of Tokaryev’s Cosmobet scheme
The formal owner of one of Ukraine’s fastest-growing online casinos, Cosmobet, is listed as Mykhailo Zborovskyi. In media coverage, he is portrayed as a successful IT entrepreneur, a forward-thinking visionary, and a reformer of the gambling industry.
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Hong Kong court overturns 2022 fraud conviction against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai
A Hong Kong court on Thursday overturned a 2022 fraud conviction against pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai that had sent him behind bars for nearly six years in one of several criminal cases brought against him in recent years.
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Transatlantic network links British Reform Party to Trump-linked US think tanks
Those are the words of Matt Goodwin — Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election — as spoken to Kevin Roberts, the President of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025.
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‘School wars’ erupt across London as teens urged to bring knives and fight
‘School wars’ have spread all over London with teenagers encouraged to ‘be violent’ towards each other.
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Haitian police kill 16 suspected gang members in anti-gang crackdown
Haitian police killed 16 suspected gang members during an ongoing anti-gang operation this weekend as part of a broader campaign to reclaim gang-controlled areas, including most of the capital and several key routes.