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After hailing Russian editor's Nobel Peace Prize, Kremlin extends media crackdown
MOSCOW (BLOOMBERG) – While the Kremlin quickly congratulated Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov for winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct 8), Russia’s relentless crackdown on independent media shows no sign of letting up. A disclosure in the Pandora Papers
Outrage as scantily-clad teacher bellydances for 7-year-old kids at school
A teacher has sparked outrage after parents spotted her performing a "striptease" and "bellydance" to welcome students as young as seven back to school. Video shared online shows pupils standing in a playground to watch a "provocatively" dressed female teacher
Femme fatale Russian spy fell in love with the man shed been hired to seduce
A former Russian spy turned glamorous jetsetter has revealed all about her secretive life – including how she fell in love with the man she was meant to seduce before fleeing the country. Aliia Roza, 36, now works as a
Satellite captures China building 100 missile silos fuelling nuclear war fears
China has started building more than 100 nuclear missile silos, experts have claimed. Satellite images are said to have captured 119 silos being constructed in the desert near Yumen – more than 1,300 miles west of capital Beijing. The James
Student texted mum ‘I hope I’m not being abducted’ before body found in forest
A law student sent a chilling final message to her mum before she was found dead in a forest after taking a lift from a stranger. Catherine Serou, a student and US Marines veteran from California, was found in a
Opinion | Putin Has Nothing to Fear From Biden
MOSCOW — For a while, it wasn’t clear that this week’s meeting in Geneva between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Biden would go ahead. Mr. Biden, seeking his first encounter as president with Mr. Putin, made the invitation
Russia’s worst serial killer ‘The Werewolf’ convicted of killing his 83rd victim
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Russia's bloodiest serial killer has been convicted of murdering his 82nd and 83rd female victims. Former policeman Mikhail Popkov, 57, a sex
Mum ‘slit two of her kid’s throats and killed husband’ before going to cinema
A mum who allegedly slit her kids' throats after stabbing her husband to death was arrested at her local cinema. The bodies of two children and their father were discovered in the family’s apartment in Vladivostok, Russia, last Thursday. Detectives
Model, 19, loses eye after face mutilated by boyfriend in ‘bestial’ gun rampage
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A model lost her eye after being shot by her "bestial" ex-lover. Darya Mukhina, 19, who is now a trainee lawyer, set