Your Route to Real News

All news by author George MacGregor

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Swedish police focus on Chinese ship following suspected undersea cable sabotage
Investigators are gathering evidence at two Baltic sites while Danish navy is shadowing a Chinese cargo ship
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Former Kyrgyz top customs official pays $200M to stay free while awaiting trial
Corruption-Tainted Kyrgyz Official Pays $200 million to wait home for his trial for hooliganism, money laundering and liberty deprivation
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Wife found dead in car boot was strangled, as new CCTV footage of prime suspect is released
A woman found dead in boot of car was strangled, postmortem shows, as new CCTV released of prime suspect.
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Asylum seeker jailed for 10 years after raping 15-year-old girl
An asylum seeker who was allowed to stay in the UK – after several attempts to deport him – has been jailed for more than 10 years after he raped a 15-year-old girl.
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Police search for ’hooded’ male suspect who raped and assaulted a woman at a cemetery in Kent
Kent Police have issued an appeal for more information as they hunt the ’hooded’ suspect who sexually attacked a woman visiting a grave.
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Biden to ’permit Ukraine to use American long-range missiles inside Russia for the first time’
President Biden is set to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia for the first time, reports claim.
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Russia’s secret weapon so powerful it can crush eyeballs and tear through walls
Russia has been quietly churning out hundreds of thermobaric drones which can collapse lungs, crush eyeballs and cause brain damage in its war on Ukraine.
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Police investigate potential criminal offence after Daily Telegraph columnist ’dumbfounded’ by social media post inquiry
Allison Pearson said she was "dumbfounded" when police turned up on her doorstep last Sunday and allegedly told her she was being investigated for a non-crime hate incident. But the police have said the investigation is into a criminal offence.
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Angry farmers protest outside Labour conference in tractors, shouting ‘enough is enough’
Furious farmers have today descended on the coastal town of Llandudno in their tractors to express their anger at the inheritance tax rises announced in the Budget.
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Jake Paul defeats Mike Tyson by unanimous decision in Netflix fight
Jake Paul, a 27-year-old social media huckster, beat a 58-year-old man with a long history of health problems, both physically and mentally, in a boxing ring late on Friday night.
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Innova Holding and Oktobank: Uzbekistan’s connection to the international schemes of Chemezov, Titov, and the Mirziyoyev family
Journalists investigating Oktobank’s criminal activities, allegedly serving as the "wallet" for Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s family, have received threats from the email account of the Uzbek company INNOVA HOLDING.
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Clashes erupt between French and Israeli football fans at a Paris stadium
Violence between French and Israeli football fans has broken out at the Stade de France, despite a heavy police presence.
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EU-based factory owners with Belarusian passports are channeling chips to Russia amidst the ongoing conflict
White sand beaches, scenic coral reefs, dense green jungle. The exotic islands of the Seychelles, in the heart of the warm Indian Ocean, attract tourists from all over the world.
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Premier League referee David Coote filmed ’snorting white powder’ while ’working at Euro 2024’
David Coote was suspended on Monday after a clip, believed to have been filmed several years ago, leaked. Another video of the controversial referee has since been released.
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New Trump presidency poses a ’very real threat’ of World War III with Russia
The risk of a third world war with Russia and her allies is a real prospect that the West should be urgently addressing, according to a leading risk management expert.
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Ukrainian MP’s family connected to $1M Dubai property purchase during ongoing war
Family of Ukrainian MP purchased over $1 million in Dubai real estate as Russia’s invasion intensified, raising questions over funding sources and alleged ties to inflated military contracts.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s non-profit provides advisory services to Azerbaijan at climate conference
The COP29 conference began yesterday in Baku. Among the delegates for Azerbaijan are 12 paid advisers from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
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Russian navy warship armed with hypersonic missiles conducts drills in the English Channel, according to state media
The ship, the frigate Admiral Golovko conducted counter-terrorism drills and training on avoiding dangerous targets while in the Channel, Russian state agencies reported.
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Boy last seen in cartel kidnap video among 11 found dead in pickup truck in Mexico
Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.
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FTX files lawsuit against Binance over transactions involving Sam Bankman-Fried
Collapsed crypto hedge fund FTX has launched legal action against the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, seeking the return of almost $1.8bn (£1.4bn) allegedly transferred fraudulently.
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Man cried, ‘it’s the end of my life,’ after being fatally stabbed in market machete attack
A man who was stabbed to death with an 18-inch blade in south London yesterday cried ‘it’s the end of my life’ as he lay on the floor.
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Shadow energy secretary criticized over £14k election campaign donation from JCB billionaire
Tory MP Claire Coutinho reportedly accepted donations and awarded funds to JCB billionaire Lord Bamford.
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North Koreans, granted internet access for the first time, already show questionable search histories
Thousands of North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia to fight for Vladimir Putin have reportedly taken up a new hobby after being given unfiltered access to the internet.
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Father and son sentenced for plotting hitwoman murder
A father and son who "recruited" a woman from the US in a plot to kill a Birmingham shopkeeper have been jailed.
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Police in Spain seize record cocaine haul in banana shipment; woman arrested, two suspects remain at large
Spanish police said Wednesday that they had seized 13 tons of cocaine -- the country’s largest-ever haul of the drug -- and made one arrest.