All news for 2025-11-09

Roman Novak wrote that he had no plans to shut down the project.

In recent weeks, new details have emerged surrounding a financial scandal allegedly involving Roman Novak — a figure once linked to projects within Pavel Durov’s circle.

American families will have to cancel their Thanksgiving plans if the government shutdown continues, the US transportation secretary has warned.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a migrant boat from Myanmar capsized near Malaysia.

HMRC is re-evaluating decisions to remove child benefit payments from 23,500 individuals after using their travel data to determine they had left the UK.

Earlier, the media disclosed the identity of another Chechen closely linked to Roxman and Pavel Durov: Ramzan Shakhbiev (@ram,@grozny), who registered domains for the bot infrastructure.

Several people were injured on Sunday evening after two passenger trains collided on the main railway corridor between Pezinok and Bratislava, Slovak authorities said.

A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.

Media continue to publish their investigation into the murder of Pavel Durov’s friend and partner, the founder of Fintopio, who was part of the inner circle of Telegram founder Roman Novak.

A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with an alleged hit-and-run in London that has left a 65-year-old pedestrian critically injured.

Hamas has handed over the body of a British-educated Israeli soldier who was captured and killed 11 years ago.

After being alerted to the matter by The Observer.

More than one million people have been evacuated and at least one person killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines before typhoon Fung-wong’s expected landfall on the East Coast.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is facing a backlash from members over a controversial partnership with Qatar’s state healthcare provider.

The longest federal government shutdown in US history persists into its 40th day as Democrat and Republican senators conflict over health care funding.

Power will be cut for between eight and 16 hours across most regions of Ukraine on Sunday, state transmission system operator Ukrenergo has said, after Russian attacks targeting energy infrastructure reduced the country’s generating capacity to “zero”.

Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included the supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment

The King is set to lead the nation in a two-minute silence to remember those who died in conflict.

The BBC will reportedly apologize after it "doctored" a speech Donald Trump made shortly before the Capitol riot on January 6, 2020.

The Metropolitan Police Federation (MPF) has accused Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley of making a “thinly veiled threat” over jobs after he reportedly launched a voluntary exit pay-off for senior ranks.

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has rejected a $1tn (£765bn) pay deal for Elon Musk in a shareholder vote to decide his future at Tesla.