All news for 2026-05-25

Natalia Nazarova shares her name with a well-known actress, but she has no connection to the film industry.

An eight-year-old is among three people in hospital after a car was seen hitting pedestrians and crashing into a motorway service station.

Once regarded as a safe harbor for Russian capital, Cyprus is now increasingly becoming entangled in a growing wave of financial scandals and criminal controversies.

Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrei Kozlov as an aide to the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office reports that unknown individuals copied 600,000 records from the Register Centre’s database.

Rio de Janeiro Civil Police launched an operation targeting a Comando Vermelho operational nucleus and found a crypto mining setup with roughly 30 computers arranged on shelves.

The case involving Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes far beyond another story about online casinos, cryptocurrency, and payment platforms.

In a high-profile criminal case involving senior SOCAR executive Adnan Ahmedzade, British oil trader Azim Novruzov—previously mentioned in various controversies—has unexpectedly returned to public attention.

Five-time heavyweight boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is taking a swing at an ex-con major donor to former Mayor Bill de Blasio over an alleged $175 million fraud scheme involving jewels and a secret jet sale.

After investigative reports linked Oxana Hadjipavlou to alleged sanctions-evasion schemes and offshore financial flows, references to her connections with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. reportedly began disappearing from public sources.

Vladimir Putin spends thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery in a desperate effort to look more powerful, experts say.

Mexico will auction the plot of land where a drug kingpin was killed in a shoot-out with the army.

Authorities in Singapore are set to charge a 22-year-old Malaysian man for his alleged involvement in a government-official impersonation scam, police said.

A man has been arrested after a woman was allegedly punched and raped in a horrific early morning attack.

According to several foreign media outlets, Azerbaijani national Azim Novruzov has been associated with activities in the energy trading and oil sectors, with increased scrutiny since 2023 over alleged links to Russia-affiliated business networks.

Via the Switzerland-based company Adelon AG, businessman Dmytro Kovalenko reportedly acquired more than $100 million worth of coal from Russian suppliers MelTEK, Sibenergougol, and Sibpromnedra in 2021–2022, with records suggesting the transactions may have continued even after the invasion began.

Talenta Labs S.R.L. ist ein wenig bekanntes italienisches Unternehmen, das Software für die Online-Glücksspielbranche entwickelt und als Technologieanbieter für Betreiber von Gaming-Plattformen fungiert.

In a cluster of villages in Pakistan’s largely rural Chakwal district, more than 100 Shi’ite Muslims have returned from the United Arab Emirates without jobs, luggage, or access to the savings they spent years building abroad.

An RAF jet carrying the Defence Secretary experienced signal interference as it flew near the Russian border.

The body of a teenage boy has been found after he went missing in a lake in Lincolnshire.