Monday, February 23

UK prosecutors speak with police over former prince Andrew’s Epstein links

UK police have spoken with Crown prosecutors over investigations into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and former UK ambassador to Washington's Peter Mandelson's links with Jeffrey Epstein. Thames Valley Police, which serves areas west of London, including the ex-royal's former home in Windsor, on Monday said it was "assessing" claims that former prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to Epstein. On Wednesday (early Thursday AEDT), both the police service and prosecutors confirmed they'd spoken. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied all accusations of wrongdoing in relation to his association with Epstein. UK police have spoken with Crown prosecutors over an investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. (Jordan Pettitt/Pool Photo via AP) "As part of this assessment, we...

Trump in the unredacted Epstein files ‘a million times’

Two members of Congress have named six men whose names were redacted by the Department of Justice from the Epstein files. Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie used their parliamentary privilege to name the men on the floor of the House of Representatives. "Seventy to eighty per cent of the files are still redacted," Khanna said. Jeffrey Epstein was a notorious sex trafficker and financier. (Christopher Anderson/Instagram) "There were six wealthy powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason." The list includes two billionaires. Nobody on the list is accused of taking part in any specific criminal wrongdoing or implicated in any crimes. And none of them have been charged in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. The legislation passed late ...

Melinda French Gates says Bill ‘needs to answer’ questions over Epstein files

Melinda French Gates says her ex-husband, billionaire businessman Bill Gates, has questions to answer for his presence in the newly-released trove of documents related to wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is not the first time the computer entrepreneur has been mentioned in connection with disgraced financier Epstein, with their relationship having been well documented. In the newly-released three-million-plus-pages, what appear to be drafted messages in Epstein's email account allege Gates had organised trysts with women via Epstein and that he had contracted a sexually-transmitted infection. Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is mentioned in the Epstein files. (AP) The emails also chronicle what appear to be Epstein's feelings of betrayal over ...

UK police open investigation into former ambassador Peter Mandelson over Jeffrey Epstein links

British police have opened a criminal investigation into politician Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct related to his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The UK government says newly released Epstein files suggest Mandelson – a former Cabinet minister, ambassador and elder statesman of the governing Labour Party – may have shared market-sensitive information with the convicted sex offender a decade and a half ago. London's Metropolitan Police force said detectives had reviewed reports of misconduct and decided they met the threshold for a full investigation. Former UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson. (AP) Commander Ella Marriott said the force "has now launched an investigation into a 72-year-old man, a former government minister, fo...

US shoots down Iranian drone approaching aircraft carrier, official says

The US military on Tuesday shot down an Iranian drone that "aggressively" approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, the US military said, in an incident first reported by Reuters. The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying toward the carrier "with unclear intent" and was shot down by an F-35 US fighter jet, it said. "An F-35C fighter jet from Abraham Lincoln shot down the Iranian drone in self-defence and to protect the aircraft carrier and personnel on board," said Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson at the US military's Central Command. In this Nov. 19, 2019, photo made available by US Navy, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defence destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strai...

French offices of Elon Musk’s X platform raided by Paris cybercrime unit

French police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk's X on Tuesday and summoned the tech billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the social media company and its AI chatbot Grok. The search was linked to an investigation France opened in January 2025, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday, adding that its cybercrime unit conducted the raid with help from Europol. Both X chairman Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to appear at hearings in April, while X employees will be questioned as witnesses, according to the Paris prosecutor. A Paris prosecutor said the investigation, opened in January 2025, was broadened to include "Grok's sexualised deepfakes". (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) Prosecutor Lau...
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