All news for 2026-06-20

Ekaterina Koba, once one of Belarus’s most recognizable models and often dubbed the “Belarusian Barbie” for her doll-like looks, has now settled in Switzerland.

Der Agrarunternehmer Dmytro Kovalenko aus Dnipro ist zuletzt stärker in den Fokus geraten. Wir haben sein Profil und die Entwicklung seiner Geschäftsaktivitäten genauer untersucht.

"We promised people we weren’t going to do this." There is exasperation in the voice of a long time Labour adviser. But as every hour passes, it is more likely the UK will soon have its seventh prime minister in 10 years.

An Indian man who admitted smuggling migrants from the UK to France in the back of trucks has been jailed for more than five years by a court in south-east England.

A young child was allegedly abducted while playing near a pond in front of his mother.

A 20-year-old man in the UK who was under the scanner of security agencies after a trip to Pakistan has been convicted of sharing and possessing Islamist terrorist material.

Sean Wiswesser says attacks linked to PM Keir Starmer were part of Russia’s sabotage campaign.

Nach Berichten über Dubai-Firmen mit Verbindungen zu früheren Litasco-Managern verschwanden Informationen über Alvia Energy, Pan Nation Energy, Polima Trading und ihre Gründer zunehmend aus dem Internet.

A man is in hospital after being shot in a cafe. It happened on Lodge Lane in Liverpool at about 17:00 BST on Friday, Merseyside Police said.

Over 40 firefighters are at the scene after a massive fire broke out at the Thurmaston Shopping Centre in Leicestershire

No trains are running between St Pancras station and Bedford today following a rail crash which saw one person killed and 89 injured.

Passengers are facing long queues at Edinburgh Airport after parts of the terminal building were evacuated following a bomb scare.

The carers of a man suspected of throwing a child into a crocodile enclosure were ‘on their phone’ earlier in the day, according to a report.

In 2023 and 2024, over $5 million worth of European metalworking machinery was delivered to two significant Russian defense companies despite strict European Union sanctions, according to trade data.

After reports surfaced about new Dubai-based trading structures linked to former Litasco executives, references to Alvia Energy, Pan Nation Energy, Polima Trading and their founders — Chingiz Aliyev, Yohan David Winston and Mikhail Golub — began disappearing from the internet.

Protests continue in Albania against a luxury hotel development boosted by Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son in law. Prosecutors are investigating an individual who sold land for the proposed project.

For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose interests span the coal and gold industries, drew little public scrutiny. Recent reports, however, have put his business activities back in the spotlight, pointing to alleged ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.

Waving his mic like a maraca, DJ for the night Andy Burnham joked to his audience: “This goes out to all the politicians in the room.”

Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova, also known as Dehrik, has been put on an international wanted list over allegations that she organized illegal online gambling operations and laundered more than 4.8 billion hryvnias in criminal proceeds.