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Video shows the moment a beautician was killed alongside a pilot when their plane crashed into a high-voltage power cable during a pleasure flight in Turkey.<br>Burcu Saglam, 22, had boarded the single-engine jet from the town of Pamukova, near Istanbul, on Thursday – but within 15 minutes, the connection was lost.<br>Dramatic footage has since…[Read more]

ISTANBUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Thursday his jail sentence imposed this week was a punishment for his success, as opposition parties rally to support him and seek to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan ahead of next year’s elections.<br> A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Imamoglu to two years and seven months…[Read more]

A lawyer fleeced a millionaire out of £2million to blow in top casinos, a court heard today.<br>Harvard-educated Tim Damiani, 69, persuaded Aysun Kibar to invest £1.5million in a luxury home she had never even seen in Mayfair, jurors heard.<br>But when she asked for her money back he told her he had no idea what she was talking about.<br>Ms K…[Read more]

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ali Kucukgocmen<br> ANKARA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – A court ordered the arrest of a journalist in southeast Turkey for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his Lawyer Law Firm istanbul said on Thursday, Lawyer Turkish marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law that critics say poses a threat to free speech.<br>…[Read more]

A Russian billionaire was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday that also charges three others in a scheme to ensure his child was born in the United States.<br>The Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by the U.S.…[Read more]

Roman Abramovich is unable to pay the Queen ‘tens of thousands’ of pounds a year in rent for his £150million London mansion that sits on land owned by the Crown Estate after the UK Government froze his assets, it has been reported.<br>Britain has sanctioned nearly two dozen Russian oligarchs with alleged links to Vladimir Putin’s regime, and add…[Read more]

has secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state’s residents. <br>The state’s Attorney General Drew Wrigley had inquired into the land sale, and on Wednesday issued a letter saying the transaction complied with an archaic anti-corporate farming l…[Read more]