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Last October, the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said in a speech that his group had arrested what he described as “well trained spy cells operating under a humanitarian cover”, from organisations including the WFP and Unicef, the UN’s childrens agency. The UN has rejected the allegations.

Unlike traditional Russian propaganda outlets like media companies RT and Sputnik, which the West swiftly sanctioned at the start of the invasion of Ukraine, such campaigns “allow for a level of… plausible deniability that complicates counter-influence efforts”, said Sophie Williams-Dunning, a cyber and tech researcher at the Royal United Services Institute think tank.

At that time, Epstein thought the palace, owned by German waste magnate Gunter Kiss, was overvalued at €55m and his initial offer was so low that Kiss was offended and refused to deal with Epstein again, the source who was close to Epstein told the BBC.

Last week, the Axios news outlet reported that his grandson, Raúl Rodríguez Castro – commonly known in Cuba as “El Cangrejo”, meaning The Crab – is the Trump administration’s point of contact inside Castro’s inner circle. If so, he’s considered one of his grandfather’s most trusted confidantes, having been his personal bodyguard, and more business-orientated…

“These actions weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise and destabilizing the workforce, undermining trust in leadership and jeopardizing the Bureau’s ability to meet its recruitment goals – ultimately putting the nation at greater risk,” the FBI Agents Association said in a statement.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Tuesday that “by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”

Over nearly two years, from February 2002 to November 2003, Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane to Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia and – closer to home – Miami and New York, according to the flight logs. At the time, Clinton’s team was trying to raise money for his foundation – as much as $100m (£74.3m), according…

Victims rescued from the Athi Rivers complex last September revealed they had signed contracts with an unnamed overseas employment agency, committing to pay up to $18,000 (£13,000) for visas, travel, accommodation, and other logistics, the police said.

A designation as an extremist group gives authorities greater surveillance powers and, in fact, the AfD had already been placed under observation for suspected extremism in Germany. The intelligence agency had also classed it as right-wing extremist in three states in the east, where its popularity is highest.

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face a grave new challenge With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a “rupture” with the post-WW2 order. 25 Jan 2026