16 m. ago Eastern European grooming gang raped vulnerable teenage girls they met in a park

Codrin Dura, 27, Leonard Paun, 23, Stefan Ciuraru, 22, Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, and Klaudio Aleksiu, 28, have all been found guilty of committing serious sex offences against a total of six teenagers.

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81 m. ago Police fire tear gas at Brussels protest against austerity measures

Belgian police have fired tear gas to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in Brussels

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1 hour ago Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

For decades, the military treated climate crisis as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weatherThis story is from Floodlight, a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action.Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Vida Rivera knows heat can be as dangerous as any enemy. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The dark truth about the British TikTok star flaunting her lavish life in Dubai... and the notorious gangster boyfriend whose past she keeps quiet

'Rio Ellen' is actually Rio Heskey, a 30-year-old from Oldham who moved to the desert city two months ago, and holds what's believed to be a relatively junior position in a low-cost fashion company.

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3 h. ago Gisele Pelicot fears she has cancer linked to the multiple gang

The 72-year-oldsurvived almost a decade of rape involving dozens of men as she was unknowingly drugged by her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot.

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4 h. ago ‘Saying yes puts you in their debt’: narco gangs profit from Argentinian austerity

Drug traffickers gaining influence by stepping in and offering donations after Milei’s sweeping social cutsIn a small colourful room tucked away in the south of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, four women are making bread and pizza bases, the bright spring sun shining strong outside the windows, which are covered in black metal mesh.Inside, the radio blast upbeat tunes, but the mood is grim: the neighbourhood has been shaken by the livestreamed torture and murder of two young women and a girl allegedly at the hands of a drug trafficker who lived just a few blocks away. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Drug traffickers gaining influence in Argentina amid Milei’s sweeping social cuts

Gang bosses support soup kitchens and offer jobs and loans in drive to expand control of poor neighbourhoodsIn a small colourful room tucked away in the south of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, four women are making bread and pizza bases, the bright spring sun shining strong outside the windows, which are covered in black metal mesh.Inside, the radio blast upbeat tunes, but the mood is grim: the neighbourhood has been shaken by the livestreamed torture and murder of two young women and a girl allegedly at the hands of a drug trafficker who lived just a few blocks away. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Gangster's wife banned from breeding dogs after ploughing cash into kennels block

The ban on Lynne Brockett, 40, comes after the couple built an industrial scale kennels block, which received retrospective planning permission despite complaints from locals.

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15 h. ago North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents

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18 h. ago Paedophile Ian Watkins ‘spent thousands on protection’ in jail before death

An imate said that the disgraced musician paid for protection with gangsters and others in the criminal underworld taking money off him.

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19 h. ago Teenage boy takes his parents to court after being enrolled at Ghanian boarding school over fears he would fall into gang violence in Britain

The boy, known as S, started a family court case after his parents left him in west Africa in March 2024 over concerns he was at risk of engaging in criminal activity or being killed due to knife crime.

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22 h. ago Moment 10 'hare coursers' with dogs in 4x4 are chased by police through the countryside before fleeing on foot

The gang of men had been crammed in the back of a filthy four-by-four vehicle in Balsham, Cambridgeshire, before jumping out and fleeing through the fields on foot in different directions.

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22 h. ago Girl, five, left disfigured after being beaten by gang of bullies who scalped her, stricken mother says

Antavia Kennibrew found her young daughter, A'Marie, had been severely injured after allegedly being assaulted by a group of ten-year-olds.

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23 h. ago Girl, 5, left disfigured after being beaten by gang of bullies who scalped her, stricken mother says

A five-year-old girl was left disfigured after a gang of bullies brutally beat and scalped her in a horrific attack, her shocked mother said.

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24 h. ago Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabedGreenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles’s property management company, accusing it of exploiting its monopoly ownership of the seabed.The environmental lobby group alleges the crown estate has driven up costs for wind power developers and boosted its own profits, as well as the royal household’s income, due to the “aggressive” way it auctions seabed rights. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Teen schoolboys allegedly 'gang rape teacher and threaten to release sick videos'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: A group of schoolboys are in court this week, facing allegations that they gang raped, blackmailed and stole from a teacher in a prolonged campaign of abuse

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24 h. ago Son of Britain's most wanted woman dubbed the 'gangster godmother' goes on the run after being accused of assault and stalking

Samson Leyson, 26, was jailed over drug offences carried out at his family's remote farm in the Welsh village of Capel Dewi, Carmarthenshire.

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25 h. ago Teenage schoolboys 'gang rape teacher and threaten to release sick videos'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: A group of schoolboys are in court this week, facing allegations that they gang raped, blackmailed and stole from a teacher in a prolonged campaign of abuse

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26 h. ago Son of 'gangster godmother' goes on the run after being accused of assault and stalking

Samson Leyson, 26, was jailed over drug offences carried out at his family's remote farm in the Welsh village of Capel Dewi, Carmarthenshire.

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30 h. ago Cops swoop on gang after hidden bug reveals terrifying secret behind newly plastered wall

Joshua Hayes, who called himself 'the Boss Man', and his co-conspirators were brought down by a secret bug which had been planted in his Mercedes

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