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Luigi Mangione quietly and calmly leaves court and boards plane for New York
Luigi Mangione – the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO – quietly and calmly departed a courthouse after waiving extradition and boarded a plane to New York.
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Putin’s forces accused of burning faces of dead North Korean soldiers to conceal their presence
Russian forces are allegedly trying to burn the faces of dead North Korean troops to hide their presence on the battlefield.
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"Monster of Avignon" sentenced to 20 years for drugging and raping ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot – a woman who has became a feminist symbol of the fight against sexual violence in France – has finally learnt the fate of her ex-husband and 50 other men after they were found guilty raping her.
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France’s highest court upholds sentencing of ex-president in corruption case
Sarkozy, 69, faces a one-year prison sentence but is likely to request home detention with an electronic bracelet.
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Former Australia rugby chief Alan Jones denies 34 sex charges involving 10 men
A former Australia national rugby coach has denied a slew of sexual assault allegations after being charged with the abuse of 10 males over two decades.
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Tech consultant convicted of stabbing Cash App founder to death
A tech consultant has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the brutal fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
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Chinese restaurant worker caught performing stomach-turning act on filthy sidewalk
A Chinese restaurant in Kansas has come under fire after a worker was filmed cutting up meat on the sidewalk.
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Inside Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s private jet collection as they list one for $39m
Billionaire Jeff Bezos is selling one of his private jets - among the fastest in the world - for a mere $39 million.
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Small Massachusetts town shaken by explosive ’Madam X’ sex scandal involving judge and prosecutor
A quaint Massachusetts town is embroiled in a sex scandal after a judge was accused of an affair with a much younger prosecutor by a mysterious ’Madam X.’
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Putin deploys nuclear bombers as Keir Starmer visits eastern Europe
Russia sent two Tu-22M3 nuclear-capable bombers over the Baltic Sea as Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited British troops in Estonia.
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Igor Kirillov, Putin’s top nuclear general, killed in Ukraine’s Moscow bomb attack
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, 54, died early on Tuesday after a device hidden inside a scooter was detonated as he emerged from his apartment block - with his driver also killed
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Former FBI informant admits to lying about false bribery scheme involving Bidens
Prosecutors and the defence have agreed to recommend a sentence of between four and six years in prison, according to the plea agreement.
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Putin warns West over pushing him toward his ’red lines’
Vladimir Putin has accused the West of pushing him to his ’red lines’ as he issued a chilling World War Three threat over missiles.
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Assad claims he had no plans to leave Syria but was evacuated by Russian forces
The comments are the first by the ousted leader since he was overthrown by insurgent groups.
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Serbian authorities accused of illegal activist surveillance using spyware
Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.
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Israeli airstrikes on Tartus mark the heaviest attack on Syria’s coast since 2012
Explosions rocked the sky above Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the country’s coastal region - with one blast detected on earthquake sensors
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Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead
Witnesses tell of ‘apocalyptic scenes’ after worst storm to hit the Indian Ocean territory in almost a century
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Assad’s torture victims speak out as Syrian torture chamber horrors are finally exposed
Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced
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Oil tanker splits in half during sinking; helicopter deployed to rescue crew
At least 13 crewmen have been thrown overboard after a Russian oil tanker reportedly split in two as large waves battered the vessel off the coast of occupied Ukraine
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Texas man gets 100 years in prison for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada, Arizona
A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.
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Billionaire founder of Mango fashion chain dies in a freak holiday accident
Isak Andic, founder of high street chain Mango, has died in a freak hiking accident near Barcelona, the brand says.
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South Korean parliament votes to impeach the president
Vote comes almost two weeks after Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law plunged country into crisis
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Colombian national admits guilt in kidnapping U.S. soldiers
Pedro Silva Ochoa pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assaulting U.S. soldiers in Bogotá.
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Switzerland seeks to ban Nazi symbols amid surge in antisemitism
Proposed ban would cover the swastika and Hitler salute but also more cryptic symbols used by the far right
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Russian ’cryptocurrency king’ in custody: Polish court to decide whether to extradite him to the US
The court has arrested Dmitry V., who was detained in Warsaw and prosecuted by the US for fraud while running one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, for 60 days.