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The man, who was attempting to gain access to the property around 2pm, Wednesday, was detained under the Mental Health Act, according to reports. The arrest comes just one day after a shooting carried out at the rapper’s property left a security guard “seriously injured”. The drive-by incident happened around 2am, Tuesday, in the affluent Bridle Path neighbourhood of Toronto. Drake, Adele and more return to TikTok as Universal strikes licensing deal The unidentified assailant - who remains at large - was reportedly seen leaving the area in a vehicle. Witnesses told Canadian media that the secu...
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An internal Finnish Party committee has recommended that MP Timo Vornanen be kicked out of the party's parliamentary group, after he was arrested for his suspected involvement in a shooting incident outside a Helsinki karaoke bar last Friday morning. The suspected shooting incident began around 4am on Friday at the Ihku nightclub in downtown Helsinki, according to the police. The incident occurred as Vornanen and another group of people got into an altercation which culminated in Vornanen producing a small-calibre firearm and firing a shot into the ground outside the venue. Vornanen has argued...
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The felling of the Sycamore Gap tree along Hadrian’s Wall in northern England last year caused an outpouring of grief and outrage in the UK and beyond. Now two men have been charged with cutting down the beloved 150-year-old tree, prosecutors said on Tuesday (30 April). Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A.D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire. They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on 15 May. Banksy mural: Do people care about trees more after seeing t...
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European authorities say they have rounded up a criminal gang who stole rare antique books worth €2.5 million from libraries across Europe. In a press release, Europol announced they had arrested four Georgian nationals in Georgia and Lithuania who are thought to have collaborated in the plot, in which at least 170 books were stolen. "In 2022 and 2023, the criminal group managed to steal rare books from national and historical libraries in Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland," Europol explained in its account of the arrests. "The thieves would ...
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A bleak picture has emerged from a report published Friday by the EU crime agency. Europol has identified 821 particularly threatening criminal networks with more than 25,000 members across the bloc. According to the agency, 86% of those networks can infiltrate the legal economy to hide their activities and launder their criminal profits. Europol cited the example of a gang leader identified as an Italian businessman of Argentinian origin residing in Marbella, Spain. The individual specialises in drug trafficking and money laundering and manages several companies, including one that imports ba...
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Heavily armed police cordoned off part of a Dutch town on Saturday, saying that multiple people were being held hostage in a building there. Gelderland Police announced the hostage release in a message on X. They gave no further details about whether more hostages remained in the club. Heavily armed police and special arrest teams, some wearing masks, were massed outside the popular club. Video from the scene showed three people walking out of the club with their hands in the air following their release. Police said on X that “at the moment there is no indication of a terrorist motive.” Earlie...
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Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud that unravelled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. Bankman-Fried, 32, was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy — a dramatic fall from a crest of success that included a Super Bowl advertisement and celebrity endorsements from stars like quarterback Tom Brady, basketball star Stephen Curry and comedian Larry David. US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan imposed the sentence on Thursday in the same Manhattan courtroom where,...
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Thousands in Naples have taken to the streets to pay tribute to the late priest Don Peppe Diana, who was killed in his church exactly 20 years ago. Assassins working for the Camorra, one of Italy's most established organised crime groups, notoriously murdered Diana on 19 March 1994 in the sacristy of his church in Casal di Principe, near Naples, where he was preparing for mass. Watch the full report in the player above to find out more.
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An $11 billion (€10 billion) acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard (HP) more than a decade ago will be resurrected Monday during a trial that will explore whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management. The criminal trial in San Francisco federal court revolves around HP's acquisition of UK software maker Autonomy, a deal that was celebrated as a coup when it was announced in 2011, only to blow up into a costly debacle. Before HP wrapped up the deal, Meg Whitman was hired to be CEO of the company started 85 years ago by Bill Hewlett and D...
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The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise the most serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ecocide”. Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive. The European Parliament is set to vote through the tougher law today (27 February) after countries reached an agreement in November. Member states will then have two years to enshrine it in national law. Here’s what you need to know about the updated law, which e...
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