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Keir Starmer faces a second year nightmare too

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Itโ€™s not just the welfare rebellion โ€” Keir Starmer goes into his second year with a host of challenges to confront.

โ€˜I knew I would die in jailโ€™: how the right-hand man of Georgiaโ€™s de facto ruler ended up on the run

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Giorgi Bachiashvili worked for billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili for more than a decade โ€“ but their spectacular falling out ended with a trialGiorgi Bachiashvili is on the run. The urbane 39-year-old slipped a surveillance team two months ago to flee his…

Fran the Man review โ€“ Irish football-coach mockumentary gets the fans onside

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Spin off from Irish TV comedy doesnโ€™t really raise its game for feature about plucky amateurs taking on a strong teamFran (Darragh Humphreys) is an assistant manager to an underdog football team who have unexpectedly drawn a very good side for a big ma…

Bosnian Serb leader flees to Moscow as authorities step up pursuit

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Bosniaโ€™s most wanted man turns up in Russia after Sarajevo requested Interpol issue a red notice for his international arrest.

Greek court orders extradition of Israeli billionaire on Romanian corruption charges

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Beny Steinmetz was convicted of participating in a scheme to take ownership of land once owned by Romanian monarchs.

Libyan general arrested in Turin on ICC warrant for alleged war crimes

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Arrest of Osama Najim puts spotlight on pact with Italy amid claims he used detained migrants in โ€˜a form of slaveryโ€™A Libyan general wanted for alleged war crimes and violence against inmates at a prison near Tripoli has been arrested in the northern I…

The nameless dead: scientists hunt for identities of thousands who tried to reach Europe

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Expertsโ€™ group employs new technologies and techniques to help relatives of those missing in the migration crisis Four years ago, the remains of a toddler encased in a lifejacket and a navy snowsuit washed up on a beach in southern Norway, having spent…

UK’s Starmer to double border security funding to curb Channel migrant crossings

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer will announce plans on Monday to double UK border security funding and treat people-smuggling gangs as terror networks to curb Channel crossings. Addressing Interpol, he will call the gangs a โ€œserious threat to global secur…

Anti-whaling activist held in Greenland appeals for political asylum in France

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Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd organisation faces extradition to Japan after arrest in Nuuk in JulyPaul Watson, the anti-whaling activist detained in Greenland and awaiting possible extradition to Japan, has appealed to Emmanuel Macron for political a…

Greece arrests Israeli billionaire on Romanian corruption charges

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Beny Steinmetz was released on bail after detention in Athens.

Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them.

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Roughly a dozen national security aides from the Trump White House are feared to be Iranโ€™s hit list. Itโ€™s hard to protect them all.

Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases

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Police forces in France, Italy and Spain join cold-case initiative after launch last year of Operation Identify MePolice have expanded a cold-case campaign aimed at identifying dozens of women who were murdered or who died in suspicious circumstances a…

‘Overdue justice’: Interpol launches campaign to identify remains of 46 women

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Interpol has launched a new European campaign to try to resolve a series of โ€œcold casesโ€ by asking the public to help it identify the remains of 46 women who were found murdered or appear to have died under suspicious circumstances. โ€œWhether it is a m…

Poland wants 3 Belarusians behind bars for Ryanair diversion

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The Ryanair flight was forced to to land in Minsk, where opposition blogger Raman Pratasevich and his partner were arrested.

Directors and actors call on Serbia not to extradite activist to Belarus

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Dozens from European film industry and other artists write letter warning Andrei Gnyot could face death penaltyDozens of European directors, actors and other artists have called on Serbian authorities not to extradite a Belarusian activist back to Bela…

Serbian court approves extradition of anti-Lukashenko activist to Belarus

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Andrei Gnyot fears for his life after organising an alliance of athletes to oppose the countryโ€™s dictator in 2020A court in Serbia has ruled that a Belarusian activist who was instrumental in organising an alliance of athletes in opposition to the coun…

The warring conmen at the heart of a โ‚ฌ5bn carbon credit scam

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Emissions trading was supposed to save the planet. But fraudsters quickly learned how to rip the system off, making themselves spectacularly rich. Then some of the major players started turning on each otherโ€ข A longer version of this piece first appear…

Spain accidentally releases drug lord who planned to kill heir to Dutch throne

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Gang kingpin skips town after judicial mix-up.

Serious security breach hits EU police agency

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The disappearance of the sensitive files of top police officials has sparked a crisis at Europol.

Putin links Ukraine to Moscow massacre without evidence

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The suspected gunmen “tried to hide and moved toward Ukraine,” Russian president says in televised address. Kyiv denies any involvement.

One year on from Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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SNEAK PEEK โ€• Silicon Valley Bank collapsed a year ago: whatโ€™s changed? โ€• Ministers gather for U.K. Global Fraud Summit. โ€• Labour assembles crack team to advise on National Wealth Fund. Happy Monday! Welcome to another week of financial services news and views. To kick off the week we have an amazingly insightful review into [โ€ฆ]

The Qatargate Files: Hundreds of leaked documents reveal scale of EU corruption scandalย 

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Evidence from the European Parliament’s graft investigation provides a record of more than 300 alleged attempts to manipulate EU democracy.

Belgiumโ€™s on-again, off-again hunt for the men accused of corrupting the European Parliament

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Qatarโ€™s labor minister and a Moroccan diplomat were discreetly sought by Belgium as part of the Qatargate investigation. Until they werenโ€™t.

How Interpol traced the identity of โ€˜the woman with the flower tattooโ€™

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Rita Roberts from Cardiff was found in an Antwerp river in 1992. Operation Identify Me has 21 other women it wants to nameFor three decades, her body has lain far from the streets of Cardiff where she was known as a vibrant, kind-hearted, if troubled, …

โ€˜Woman with the flower tattooโ€™ killed in Antwerp in 1992 is identified as Briton

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Rita Roberts identified through appeal seeking information on 22 women killed in Belgium, Netherlands and GermanyA womanโ€™s body found 31 years ago in Antwerp has been identified as that of a British national, Rita Roberts, after police appealed to the …

The Godfather of Maasmechelen โ€” How Italyโ€™s โ€˜ndrangheta mafia went global

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Once a clique of Calabrian mountain dwellers, the criminal organization has become one of the biggest in the world by teaming up with the competition.ย 

Biggest source of money laundering in Gaza hides in plain sight

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While the global campaign to tackle illicit money flows has taken on new urgency, in Gaza, agencies are focused in the wrong direction.

To ban or not to ban: Fixing the EUโ€™s global plastic waste mess

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Legal loopholes and a lack of transparency facilitate the flow of illegal exports to countries like Myanmar.

Interpol fights for survival on its 100th birthday

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Head of crime-fighting agency pushes back against criticism of its famed Red Notice system.

Inside a Ukrainian baby factory

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War has destroyed much of the Ukrainian economy. But one key industry โ€” delivering babies via surrogates โ€” continues amid the epic strife.

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