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All news for 2024-09-20

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A Russian prisoner freed in a swap is urging the UK not to allow hundreds more to "die off"
Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Keir Starmer that further exchanges are a matter of ‘life and death’
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Keir Starmer won’t accept future donations for clothes after freebies row
Keir Starmer caved to pressure following days of criticism over gifts from wealthy donors and will no longer take cash for clothes - along with Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves
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Behind the curtain of fakes: How the "puppet" of Russian oligarchs Maksym Krippa buys up Ukrainian media
There is a new growing media baron in Ukraine who almost unnoticeably to the wider public buys up mass media one after another. For the last year, Tetiana Snopko, a Dnipro citizen, has already purchased two media holdings and is obviously willing to buy more.
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Debt has reached 100% of national income for the first time since the 1960s, driven by increases in public sector pay
The latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that public sector net debt is 100% of the nation’s economic output.
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A top Hezbollah commander has reportedly been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut
An Israeli strike on Lebanon’s capital has reportedly killed a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions in the Middle East continued to rise.
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An Irish crime boss has confessed to using a trick to conceal a cache of guns
A boss of an organised crime gang and two of his key members have admitted a trick to create a fake arms cache in a bid to help him secure a lighter prison sentence.
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Man jailed for money laundering and drug supply
A Jersey resident has been jailed for two years and six months for supplying drugs and money laundering.
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A body has been found in the urgent search for a 50-year-old Channel 4 star who disappeared 24 hours ago
Police said a body found has been found in the search for Channel 4 star Katherine Watson who appeared in TV series Geordie Hospital and vanished on Thursday
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Hezbollah distributed pagers just hours before the blasts, even after security checks
Lebanon’s Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands of the devices blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating the group was confident they were safe despite an ongoing sweep of electronic equipment to identify threats.
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Ukraine has become a booming market for arms manufacturers in the Balkans
It’s not just gangsters buying Serbian and Bosnian ammo these days