All news by author David Wilson

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Influencer and pilot die after private jet catches fire on a busy street
The two victims of a plane crash in Brazil’s biggest city are an influencer and the pilot he hired to fly him around, according to local media.
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French police investigate the deaths of a retired British couple in their Aveyron home
Andrew Searle, retired fraud investigator, and wife, Dawn, found dead in their rural home in south-west France.
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Haiti gang-rape horror as girl, 16, is drugged, beaten and raped relentlessly for a month in a warehouse
A 16-year-old girl has been drugged, beaten and raped for a month in a warehouse in Haiti, amid a massive 1,000% surge of sexual violence against children as the crime-ridden island is taken over by gangs.
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Turkish ’Farm Bank’ Ponzi scheme founder sentenced to over 45,370 years in prison
Mehmet Aydın, the founder of a Turkish online Ponzi scheme who had been accused of embezzling money from thousands of people, was on Monday sentenced to 45,376 years and six months in prison.
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UK seeks access to Apple users’ encrypted data
Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance.
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Sources say Trump administration to retain only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 worldwide
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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Fears Brit couple were tortured to death as horror new details emerge of ’burglary gone wrong’
Investigators in charge of the shocking deaths of Dawn and Andrew Searle have set up a massive crime scene in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in France.
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Government confirms Grenfell Tower will be demolished over a two-year period
Grenfell Tower will be torn down despite victims’ families begging them to ‘keep the shrine of their loved ones’.
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Four arrested as £80 million worth of cocaine disguised as shea butter is seized in a major drug operation
A woman in her 40s was also arrested on suspicion of money laundering and released under investigation.
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Rush hour chaos between Liverpool and Manchester as car flips onto train tracks, closing major rail lines
Services between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Airport are affected following a car landing on the train tracks below after crashing at a roundabout. All railway lines between Newton-le-Willows and Manchester following the incident.
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Trump sanctions International Criminal Court, claiming it targets the US and ally Israel
Donald Trump has authorised economic and travel sanctions against people who work on International Criminal Court investigations "targeting" US citizens or "close allies" such as Israel.
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Frantic search underway for Bering Air plane that vanished mid-flight with passengers on board
The Bering Air plane disappeared over Alaska, US, and authorities - including the Nome Volunteer Fire Department - have been scrambled in a desperate operation to find it.
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Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte impeached over assassination plot and corruption charges
The Filipino House of Representatives has impeached Vice President Sara Duterte over allegations of conspiracy to assassinate President Marcos Jr., corruption, and extrajudicial killings, setting the stage for a Senate trial that could remove her from office.
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Police uncover ’loner’ Sweden shooter Rickard Andersson’s extensive arsenal and connections to a school, describing the scene as an ’inferno of death’
The shocking arsenal of Sweden’s mass school shooting suspect Rickard Andersson and his apparent links to the murder scene have been revealed.
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Man Utd releases an official statement confirming Lisandro Martinez’s severe injury
Lisandro Martinez came off during Manchester United’s dismal 2-0 loss at home to Crystal Palace on Sunday, with the defender suffering what’s turned out to be a serious knee injury.
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Top civil servants may be dismissed if they fail to deliver savings for taxpayers
Top civil servants could face the sack if they do not deliver savings for the taxpayer under rules announced by the Government on Thursday.
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American lawyers Resser and Bronson falsified documents to protect their million-dollar assets
Bruce Bronson asserts that he has been self-employed for the last two decades. Before that, he was a partner at multiple boutique New York City legal firms.
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Netanyahu gifted Trump a golden pager, and the US president responded, ’That was a great operation’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly gifted US President Donald Trump with a golden pager and a regular one, a reference to the clandestine operation that decimated the Hezbollah terror group.
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Another journalist detained in Azerbaijan amid media crackdown
Another journalist’s arrest adds to growing list of detained media professionals in Azerbaijan, sparking outcry over press freedom.
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Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death following a fire at Goma prison
Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city.
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Spanish police arrest six individuals for involvement in a scheme selling nonexistent puppies
Gang swindled victims out of €150,000 by posting fraudulent adverts for pets on secondhand shopping sites.
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11 people reported dead in Örebro campus attack, according to Swedish police
Victims still being identified after what Sweden’s PM says was the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.
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16-year-old boy and 20-year-old man severely injured in a stabbing on a Manchester street
A double stabbing has left a man and teenager with serious injuries.
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Knife-wielding assailants storm busy London restaurant, confronting a couple as horrified diners look on
A London restaurant was thrown into chaos last night when three would-be attackers stormed in and confronted a young couple at dinner.
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Glasgow councillor faces court hearing over stalking charges
Philip Braat, who is currently suspended by Labour, was arrested and charged on October 23rd.