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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has threatened harsh consequences following the arrest of Polish citizens suspected of collaborating with Russian intelligence services. He wrote on the short messaging service X, formerly Twitter, on Friday: "There will be no leniency for collaborators with the Russian secret services. We will burn out every betrayal and every attempt at destabilization with a red-hot iron." Commenting on the current status of the investigation into two specific conspiracies, he said that a Pole responsible for a thwarted assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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Online shopping scams are surging in Singapore, with Facebook the venue for more than half of them, the city-state's government has said. The number of such shady deals doubled in 2023 to almost 10,000, after around 4,700 were reported the year before, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The MHA gave Facebook Marketplace the lowest anti-fraud score out of the 6 main e-commerce platforms in use in the country, after the number of con jobs carried out on the Meta-owned platform climbed from 1,138 in 2022 to over 4,500 last year. The ministry gave a 4-tick rating to four providers - ...
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There were more attacks on journalists in Germany in 2023 than in the previous year, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) has found. After 56 cases in 2022, 69 cases of physical attacks on journalists were recorded last year, the non-profit organization announced on Tuesday in its annual long-term analysis. The capital Berlin had the most cases, with 25. The eastern state of Saxony had the most recorded attacks in the previous year. Demonstrations are the most dangerous environment for Germany's media workers, the analysis found, with 77% of the known cases associated with p...
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German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom is considering legal action against far-right politician Björn Höcke over claims Höcke made during a televised debate on Thursday evening. Höcke, the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Thuringia, is currently awaiting criminal trial for allegedly intentionally quoting the slogan of the Nazi Party's infamous SA stormtroopers during two speeches. In the televised debate, Höcke tried to play down the allegations against him by claiming that Deutsche Telekom once used the slogan - "Alles für Deutschlan...
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German third division club Dynamo Dresden have filed a complaint with the police after team captain Stefan Kutschke became the target of a death threat. "On Friday, 5 April 2024, Stefan Kutschke was massively attacked by a threatening letter. In the letter, the Dynamo Dresden team captain and his family members received extreme hostility and were also confronted with warnings and even murder," a club statement said. Dresden said that Kutschke and club officials have been abused on various social media channels lately. "As a sports community, we are always open to criticism. However, certain bo...
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A lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Petr Bystron, has denied allegations connecting him with Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns. "At no time have I received any payments or cryptocurrencies from an employee of VoE (or any Russian)," he wrote on Thursday in a statement to the party leadership made available to dpa. He was referring to the pro-Russian propaganda platform Voice of Europe, which has alleged ties to Russian intelligence agencies. The Czech newspaper Denik N reported, citing intelligence sources, that Bystron is suspected of having been in conta...
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A lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Petr Bystron, has denied allegations connecting him with Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns. "At no time have I received any payments or cryptocurrencies from an employee of VoE (or any Russian)," he wrote on Thursday in a statement to the party leadership made available to dpa. He was referring to the pro-Russian propaganda platform Voice of Europe, which has alleged ties to Russian intelligence agencies. The Czech newspaper Denik N reported, citing intelligence sources, that Bystron is suspected of having been in conta...
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A lawmaker from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Petr Bystron, has denied allegations connecting him with Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns. "At no time have I received any payments or cryptocurrencies from an employee of VoE (or any Russian)," he wrote on Thursday in a statement to the party leadership made available to dpa. He was referring to the pro-Russian propaganda platform Voice of Europe, which has alleged ties to Russian intelligence agencies. The Czech newspaper Denik N reported, citing intelligence sources, that Bystron is suspected of having been in conta...
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The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) will elect a new leadership on May 6 and has also pledged to cooperate in a criminal investigation on suspicion of corruption during the term of past president Luis Rubiales. The RFEF said in a statement late Wednesday that interim leader Pedro Rocha was stepping down as head of management commission that had run the federation since Rubiales' resignation in autumn, because he would run for the presidency. The announcement came hours after Rubiales was detained for a while and questioned by police after returning from the Dominican Republic. It is expecte...
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The restructuring plan for the insolvent Signa Group of ex-billionaire René Benko is the wrong approach, according to the Austrian Financial Procurator's Office. The promised quota of 30% for creditors can only be achieved if there is a "striking market recovery" in real estate, the president of the office, Wolfgang Peschorn, told the Foreign Press Association in Vienna. He maintained that bankruptcy would have been the cleaner solution. Such a break-up under the direction of an insolvency administrator would also have had the goal of the best possible realization of the existing assets and wo...
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