Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

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Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal.

The disclosure will put further pressure on the Reform UK leader, who is awaiting a decision by the standards commissioner over whether his failure to declare the money breached parliamentary rules.

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Prince Harry’s ‘crushing’ court loss could devastate his and Meghan Markle’s finances – The Mercury News

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  1. Prince Harry’s ‘crushing’ court loss could devastate his and Meghan Markle’s finances  The Mercury News
  2. Prince Harry Loses Privacy Lawsuit Against Daily Mail Publisher  The New York Times
  3. Harry's bad news lands at wrong time, but prince sticks to script  BBC
  4. Prince Harry's UK trip off to rocky start after first major setback  Fox News
  5. Prince Harry and other claimants could face £50m legal bill after losing phone-hacking case  The Guardian
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Hungarian public media outlets halt broadcasting in post-Orbán shake-up

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Péter Magyar hails ‘end of propaganda broadcasts’ as Kossuth radio and M1 TV channels suspend transmission

Hungarian public media outlets close to Viktor Orbán have suspended broadcasting, the country’s prime minister said as he hailed efforts to dismantle the longtime nationalist leader’s control over information.

Péter Magyar, who ousted Orbán in a landslide election victory in April, wrote on Facebook: “A historic day. Today marks the end of propaganda broadcasts on public media platforms. They lied at night, they lied during the day, they lied on every wavelength. That is now over.”

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Ukraine strikes Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers supplying Crimea – Reuters

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  1. Ukraine strikes Russian 'shadow fleet' tankers supplying Crimea  Reuters
  2. Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s largest oil refinery as Zelenskyy says Siberia now ‘within reach’  CNBC
  3. Russia’s Largest Oil Refinery Halts Production After Drone Attack, Sources Say  The Moscow Times
  4. Ukraine claims attack on 10 vessels in ‘industrial scale’ drone strike  TradeWinds News
  5. Ukrainian drones flew all the way to Siberia to strike Russia's largest oil refinery  Business Insider
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

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Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally

A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in Uganda.

Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is a common herb from the mint family. The chemical in the plant that causes feline euphoria – nepetalactone – also has insect-repelling properties but this has not previously been commercialised.

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French prosecutors investigate racist abuse of Kylian Mbappé by Paraguayan senator

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Celeste Amarilla could face charges after French Football Federation complains about social media posts over World Cup match

Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into the racist attack on Kylian Mbappé by a Paraguayan senator, with officials weighing whether to demand that the senator be charged with aggravated public insult or incitement to hatred or violence.

The Paris prosecutor’s office told the Guardian on Tuesday it had launched the inquiry after the French Football Federation (FFF) filed a complaint with the national unit for combating online hate.

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‘Accident waiting to happen’: player’s death raises alarm over risk of concrete cricket pitches in Australian rules football

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Concrete-based cricket pitches, like that on which Nathan Fitzgerald received fatal blows to the head, are ‘totally unsafe’, concussion advocate says

Australia must finally deal with a deadly risk that has plagued its native football code for more than 120 years, sports safety advocates say, after the death of a suburban Aussie rules footballer.

Nathan Fitzgerald, a 27-year-old school teacher, died in a Melbourne hospital on Monday after a horror accident on Saturday in which it is believed the Epping reserves grade footballer clashed heads with another player while tackling an opponent and received a second blow to the head as he fell, before striking his head a third time on a concrete-based cricket pitch in the middle of the ground.

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