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Andrew Tate, centre, speaks to journalists as he is brought in for questioning by the Romanian gendarmes after a ten-hour long raid by police at his home in Bucharest on August 21, 2024. Photo: AFP / Daniel Mihailescu Internet personality Andrew Tate's home near Bucharest was raided by law enforcement on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, as Romanian police launched four searches in an investigation into crimes including human trafficking and sex with a minor. A self-described misogynist, social media influencer Tate has gained millions of fans by promoting an ultra-masculine lifestyle that critics say denigrates women. He was already indicted in mid-2023 along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian female suspects for human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually ...

By Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa for Reuters Ukrainian servicemen operate a Soviet-made T-72 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 12, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: AFP / Roman Pilipey Ukraine said on Wednesday it had destroyed Russian pontoon bridges with US-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia's Kursk region, while Moscow said its forces had halted Kyiv's advance there and gained ground in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv has announced a string of battlefield successes since it crossed unexpectedly into Kursk region on 6 August, but Moscow has steadily inched forward in eastern Ukraine, pressuring troops worn down by two-and-a-half years of fighting. Olaf Scholz, chancellor of close ally Germany, said he expected Ukraine's push in Kur...

A British newspaper is reporting tech magnate Mike Lynch is among the four bodies retrieved from a sunken superyacht near Sicily. Photo: AFP / Pool / Ben Gurr By Giselda Vagnoni, Reuters Four bodies were found aboard the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to the wife of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, sources close to the rescue operation said. The identities of the victims were not immediately given by the authorities. Three of the bodies were brought ashore and taken to nearby hospitals for formal identification. The fourth corpse was being taken to land as evening set in. Britain's Daily Telegraph reported that two of the dead were Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter. Local authorities in Sicily declined to comment on the report. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyach...

By Jeremy Wilkinson, Open Justice Multimedia Journalist of The Supreme Court of New South Wales in Sydney. Photo: AFP "I'm here today 35 years after the unthinkable," the father of a murdered toddler told a courtroom. "My daughter was taken in the most horrible and senseless manner imaginable at the hands of her own mother." Gerard Stanhope spent 30 years thinking his daughter Tillie Craig was still alive and was desperate to track her down after her mother took her to live at a cult in rural Sydney. He last saw Tillie a few months before her death but was told she was alive and well by her Kiwi mother Ellen Craig. "The reality is that Tillie was violently murdered by the person she should have been able to trust to protect her the most," Stanhope said. "It's a woun...