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      17 January

      Uranium at Heathrow: Met police arrest London businessman as ‘terror’ suspect

      Anti-terror police of the United Kingdom detained a businessman in connection with the uranium found at the Heathrow airport. Earlier, police had confirmed the arrest as a component of the continuing investigation into the smuggling of the very hazardous radioactive substance. Reports say that the 60-year-old man has subsequently been released on bail, the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command reported in a statement. The Daily Telegraph reported that he was a businessman and a citizen of the United Kingdom. On January 14, police descended on a residence in Cheshire to apprehend the man and search the building. He was detained on suspicion of participating in terrorist activities, specifically creating or owning a radioactive device or owning radioactive material with the…

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    • 17 January

      Murder accused from Afghanistan cries as he recalls the death of his parents and torture

      A refugee accused of murder cried in the dock as he recalled the murder of his parents by the Taliban. Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai is charged with the murder of 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, in the early hours of March 12, 2022. Abdulrahimzai, who is originally from Afghanistan, began to give evidence in his defense at Salisbury Crown Court on Monday. He described his parents being killed when the Taliban planted bombs at his family home, as they suspected them of colluding with American forces. He said: “I have seen some explosions not very far away. There was an American base not far from where we lived and the Taliban would come and…

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    • 17 January

      Italy mafia boss arrested after 30 years on the run

      Italy’s most wanted mafia boss – who had been on the run since 1993 – has been arrested at a private hospital in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, police have said. Prosecutors say Matteo Messina Denaro, now 60, is a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia. The head of the Carabinieri police force’s special operations squad said that Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic having been receiving treatment. Locals applauded and shook the hands of police as he was driven away. Italian media suggested that Messina Denaro had been receiving treatment for cancer under the false name “Andrea Buonafede” for the last year. Messina Denaro had been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia…

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    • 16 January

      UK Met Police officer exposed as a serial rapist who kept women in a cupboard under the stairs

      A Met Police officer, David Carrick, aged 48, has been outed as a serial rapist. Today a court heard how he was behind more than forty attacks on women, across almost two decades. Reports say that concerns were raised to the Met multiple times and that he was allowed to continue serving. The organisation has admitted to falling short Carrick, who worked as an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command (the same role undertaken by Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens), admitted to 49 offences (including 24 charges of rape), concerning twelve different women, at Southwark Crown Court today [16 January 2023] – meaning reporting restrictions have been lifted. Those in attendance also heard how he forced some of…

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    • 16 January

      Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada shot dead in Kabul

      Nabizada, a former member of parliament in the United States-backed government, was killed by assailants at her home, police say. A former Afghan female legislator and one of her bodyguards have been killed at her home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, police have said. Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the United States-backed government that was deposed by the Taliban in August 2021. She was among the few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban takeover. “Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on Sunday. “The security forces have started a serious investigation into the incident,” he said. The shooting happened around 3am on Sunday (22:30 GMT on…

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    • 16 January

      Nepal mourns after deadly plane crash, search for missing resumes

      Rescuers had recovered 68 bodies out of the 72 people on board the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed in Pokhara on Sunday. Rescuers in Nepal have resumed searching for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, as the Himalayan nation observes a day of mourning. Rescuers recovered 68 bodies out of the 72 people on board the ATR 72 aircraft operated by Yeti Airlines that crashed in the tourist city of Pokhara minutes before landing on Sunday in clear weather. The plane, on a scheduled 27-minute flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara, gateway to the scenic Annapurna mountain range, was carrying 57 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one person each from Argentina, Ireland, Australia…

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    • 16 January

      Chinese navy holds ‘confrontational drills’ in South China Sea

      Chinese drills came as the US Nimitz aircraft carrier group also conducted maritime strike training in the contested waterway. The Chinese navy has carried out a series of “confrontational drills” in the South China Sea, according to state media, at the same time as a United States aircraft carrier group launched “maritime strike training” in the contested waterway. The Chinese navy’s Shandong aircraft carrier group conducted “realistic combat-oriented confrontational exercises” in the South China Sea, the Communist Party-owned Global Times news website reported on Sunday, citing a statement from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). During the drills, which simulated hostile aircraft attacks, J-15 fighter jets took off from the Shandong and carried out interception training, the Global Times said. The carrier…

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    • 16 January

      Malaysia’s tourism recovery flops as Thailand, Indonesia cash in

      Malaysia is struggling to bring back tourists compared with its Southeast Asian peers after scrapping pandemic curbs. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – For Arthur Wilkinson, a Penang-born entrepreneur who opened Malaysia’s first flotation therapy centre on his tropical island home, nearly two years without tourists marked the end of the road. Float For Health, located in Tanjung Tokong, a coastal township on the northeastern side of Penang island, shut up shop for good in January 2021 as border restrictions introduced to keep out COVID-19 reduced customers to a trickle. “Eighty percent of my customers were tourists, and at that time, anyone working in this industry suffered for obvious reasons,” Wilkinson, who also runs the restaurant Heap Seng at 29 in George Town,…

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    • 16 January

      Belarus, Russia to start ‘defensive in nature’ air force drills

      The increased military activity has raised concern that Moscow might use its neighbour to mount a renewed ground offensive on Ukraine. Belarus has said the joint air force drills it will begin with Russia on Monday are defensive in nature, but the exercises are taking place as concerns grow that Moscow is pushing Minsk to join the war in Ukraine. “The exercise is purely defensive in nature,” said Pavel Muraveyko, first deputy state secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, according to a post on the Belarusian defence ministry’s Telegram app on Sunday. “It will be a set of measures to prepare our and Russian aviation to carry out the relevant combat missions.” The exercises, which will continue until February 1,…

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    • 16 January

      NATO chief hints at more heavy weapons deliveries to Ukraine

      Jens Stoltenberg says he expects more weapons deliveries to war-torn Ukraine after UK pledges Challenger 2 tanks. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has hailed recent pledges of heavy weapons deliveries from Western allies to Ukraine, saying he expected more “in the near future”. The head of the transatlantic military alliance made the comments on Sunday, a day after a wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine again targeted critical infrastructure and left at least 30 people dead after a residential building was hit in the east-central city of Dnipro. “The recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important — and I expect more in the near future,” Stoltenberg told Germany’s Handelsblatt daily ahead of a meeting on Friday of defence officials from the…

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