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Britons buying cocaine on a Friday night could be inadvertently funding Russia’s war in Ukraine.The National Crime Agency has revealed a billion-pound money laundering network is operating in 28 towns and cities across the UK. Couriers collect “dirty” cash generated from drugs, firearms and immigration gangs, which is then converted into cryptocurrency.Officials say these illicit transactions have a direct link to “geopolitical events causing suffering around the world”.This network was first exposed because of Operation Destabilise – and to date, 128 arrests have been made, with more than £25m in cash and digital assets seized. Image: A bag stuffed with…

This Aurora apartment complex has a new owner. (Google Maps) Want to see your sale or lease here? Fill out this form to appear in next week’s Pipeline and learn more about what deals we accept here.  Deals of notes: Kennedy Wilson, a global real estate investment company, purchased The Fletcher Southlands, a 320-unit apartment complex built in 2001 at 22959 Smoky Hill Road, for $94.75 million from CBPR Fletcher Southlands LLC. The seller purchased the property in 2021 for $103.3 million, according to public records. Nectar Equities LLC purchased the Hidden Lakes Shopping Center on the northeast corner of…

The alliance is a major boost to economic co-operation between companies in both countries. Together the bodies reach around 120,000 businesses. The agreement follows a joint statement by the Prime Ministers of both countries in June and is aimed at increasing future bilateral trade and economic co-operation in critical areas such as rare earth minerals, nuclear technology and artificial intelligence. There will also be a particular focus on defence and security collaboration, an area where both countries having strong defence industries. At a practical level, as well as sharing information on science, technology and innovation the two organisations will focus…

Elvis Loveless (VOCM News file photo) The former minister of transportation in the Liberal Government, who spent many hours combing through numbers and suggestions in snow clearing, says the current government’s plan is not a whole lot different from the way they did things. Transportation Minister Barry Petten announced yesterday 24/7 availability of winter maintenance crews, but south coast MHA Elvis Loveless says his government also had 24/7 service on much the same routes. The only difference was that plow operators used to be at home when they were called in whereas now they will already be at the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Foreign investors are piling into long-dated Japanese government bonds at the fastest pace in more than two decades this year, attracted by a sharp rise in yields in a market that has for years offered few profits for traders. Data from the Japan Securities Dealers Association shows that foreign investors bought a net ¥11.3tn ($71.8bn) of JGBs with a maturity of more than 10 years this year to the end of October — higher than any comparable period since records began in…

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AnaptysBio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANAB), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on delivering innovative immunology therapeutics, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an amended Stock Repurchase Plan under which the Company may repurchase up to $100.0 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock, par value $0.001 per share. This amendment is in addition to the $6.4 million that remained as of Nov. 20, 2025 under the current $75.0 million Stock Repurchase Plan of which Anaptys has repurchased a total of 3,443,188 shares of common stock (11.2% shares outstanding before the start…

Tarun Sharma, Deputy Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India; Harsha Bangari, Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India; M. Nagaraju, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance; A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish, Principal Secretary (Industries), . Deepali Agrawal, Deputy Managing Director, Export-Import Bank of India. Kerala Export Promotion Policy 2025 aims to transform the State into a globally competitive export hub with an ambitious target of $20 billion in exports by 2027–28, according to A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish, Principal Secretary (Industries). Speaking at the Exim Bank’s seminar on ‘Redefining Growth: Strategies for Inclusive and Resilient Economic Development in Asia-Pacific’, he highlighted Kerala’s recent…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.If Lily Allen’s new revenge album hasn’t already caused enough excitement among everyone I know — all right, among a significant majority of the women I know — her house coming on the market straight afterwards has finished us all off. Never has a real estate listing swirled around with such frenzied gawping as that of the five-storey Brooklyn brownstone that she and her estranged husband David Harbour have marketed at just shy of $8mn, more than twice what they paid for…

If you have a policy with this company, it will come to an end on December 1 – and you will need to find new coverPremier Insurance Company Limited has gone bust(Image: Getty Images/EyeEm)Thousands of drivers have been urged to find new motor insurance after a provider went bust.Premier Insurance Company Limited, which is a Gibraltar-based insurer but provided car and motorcycle insurance policies for UK customers, collapsed into administration last month.If you have a policy with this company, it will come to an end on December 1 – and you will need to find new cover. It is estimated…

U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks takes a jab at her opponentU.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, takes a jab at Christina Bohannan while at U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s BBQ Bash.Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and her 1st Congressional District Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan are backing ethics measures that would ban congressional lawmakers from trading stocks.Bohannan, who is seen as the frontrunner to seek her party’s nomination a third time to challenge Miller-Meeks in the 2026 midterm elections, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, unveiled a broad ethics plan that also would institute term limits and make other tweaks to the standards governing federal office…