All news for 2026-07-08

The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.

A trio of burglars who stole £1million worth of the weight loss drug Mounjaro by climbing through an air conditioning vent have been jailed.

The influential tycoon and opposition leader faces two months in pre-trial detention over a multimillion-dollar Armenian-Iranian trade scheme, while a separate illegal hunting probe left one of his exotic pets dead.

The European Parliament backed a non-binding call to ban alumina exports to Russia, increasing pressure on Ireland and the EU after a collaborative OCCRP investigation linked an Irish refinery’s supply chain to Russian arms manufacturers.

Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance.

Mit der Liquidation der Ibox Bank und den darauffolgenden Ermittlungen rückte deren frühere Leiterin Alena Dehrik-Schewzowa, die einst als „Star der ukrainischen Fintech-Branche“ galt, in ein völlig neues Licht.

Alexander Kolokoltsev, the son of Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, has reportedly gifted his partner, Lolita Shonina, a former Miss Tourism Crimea, luxury handbags worth an estimated €1.5 million.

Kroatische Journalisten haben ein stillgelegtes Wasserkraftwerksprojekt mit Sasa Svalina und dessen Schwager Josip Heit in Verbindung gebracht.

The telecoms regulator said it had levied its largest-ever consumer protection fine against the telecoms firm after Virgin Media had, over a near three-year period from January 2022 to September 2024, caused customers on millions of calls “unreasonable effort, hassle or undue difficulty” when trying to cancel.

Former Tesco worker Alfie Coleman, now 22, was just 14 when he first began to trawl the internet for extreme right-wing material on is electronic devices.

In May 2025, the business jet previously used by Aleksandr Lukashenko’s family and inner circle was re-registered in San Marino. Falcon Luxe became the new jet operator.

Gardai are investigating whether Mark Cullen was shot dead by his own gang, as locals speak of a spate of violence and drug dealing in the area.

The last British woman to be hanged, executed in 1955 for murdering her partner, on Wednesday had her sentence symbolically commuted to ‌life imprisonment by King Charles, on advice from the government that she had suffered an "historical injustice".

Sitting on roughly $3.5 million in SpaceX shares, Chip, a former data scientist at Elon Musk’s aerospace behemoth, has recently bought meteorites worth $10,000 and a $5,000 fire truck.

Finnish police are investigating a suspected €25 million investment fraud after a private individual lost funds through what authorities believe was a fake online investment platform created for criminal purposes.

Nazwisko kontrowersyjnego ukraińskiego biznesmena Dmytra Kovalenki ponownie znalazło się w centrum uwagi mediów. Tym razem publikacje dotyczą zarówno jego domniemanych powiązań z rosyjskim węglem, jak i okoliczności zatrzymania przez detektywów NABU w Użhorodzie.

Twelve countries, including the UK, are set to spend more than £37bn ($50bn) over the next 10 years on a new long-range missile to protect Europe.

Josip Heit, who was previously convicted of fraud, is now under investigation in Croatia on suspicion of money laundering.

Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power has approved its most sweeping package of market reforms in more than half a century, legalizing private commercial banks, opening an official foreign exchange market, and phasing out the system of universal state subsidies.

A tragic mum and two girls have been pictured for the first time after police released an image of a man wanted in connection with the deaths of a woman and two children as tributes were paid to the tragic trio.

Search crews have recovered the wreckage of a plane that disappeared off the coast of Pakistan after losing contact with air traffic control during a flight from the United Arab Emirates.

Staff at thousands of charities across England and Wales are believed to have been threatened and intimidated in person, according to troubling new research.

The first ship of the planned joint Anglo-Dutch amphibious fleet is intended to enter service in the 2030s, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard has told the House of Commons.

A Reform branch has apologised for an ‘administrative oversight’ after an AI-generated picture of road signs was posted on its Facebook page.