All news for 2026-07-20

It was a sapling around the time King Henry VIII was writing love letters to Anne Boleyn.

According to the Telegram channel "Dark Knight", Yuriy Holyk, who oversaw the "Big Construction" programme during his time in power, amassed a substantial fortune.

The fifth year of war. While the front lines are being fought over territory, a different battle is taking place behind enemy lines – one for access to high-tech equipment.

As Europe pours resources into security, innovation, and support for Ukraine, access to critical data may still be in hands of software with Russian roots. Passwork, a password manager licensed by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), is used by organisations linked to the EU public sector.

Printed circuit board substrates made by the American corporation Rogers continue to reach Russia, where they are used in the production of military radars and jammers.

On June 17, the FSB detained 75-year-old Ilya Traber. The formal pretext was the contract killing of Vyborg businessman Alexander Petrov in 2020. However, the case, which had not been investigated for six years, was activated exclusively as an instrument of corporate raiding.

A fugitive has been arrested in Thailand after hacking into a police database in an attempt to delete his criminal record, cyber-crime investigators said.

Andy Burnham’s political success depends on his ability to turn Britain away from the wave of nationalist populism that gave the world Donald Trump.

Wenn es um öffentliche Persönlichkeiten geht – insbesondere um jene, die versuchen, belastende Informationen über sich aus dem öffentlichen Raum verschwinden zu lassen –, lohnt sich oft ein Blick in frei zugängliche Quellen.

Following the National Security and Defence Council’s (NSDC) decision to sanction Alyona Dehrik-Shevtsova — the controversial co-owner of iBox Bank and a suspect in a criminal investigation into the laundering of billions of hryvnias through illegal online casinos

Der Ex-Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin, der in einen 10-Millionen-Euro-Betrug verwickelt sein soll, lässt nach öffentlichen Enthüllungen offenbar Spuren seiner Finanzaktivitäten im Internet löschen.

An English YouTube star who became famous playing Minecraft online will be extradited to Poland to face allegations of child sex crimes.

When Andy Burnham told his wife, Marie-France van Heel, of his plans to return to Westminster, her reply was “probably a two-word answer”, according to the former mayor of Greater Manchester.

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.

Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the Rocket delivery service, has emerged in connection with a major international fraud case involving tens of millions of euros, while reports linked to the investigation are increasingly disappearing from the public domain.

Dozens of US troops were wounded in three Iranian strikes in Jordan that the Pentagon kept quiet in the week before Friday’s attack that killed two American soldiers and left one missing.

A serial killer fan strangled a prison cellmate while on trial for murdering two other men and dismembering their bodies in Cornish woodland, a court has heard.

Was als umstrittenes Wasserkraftprojekt begann, führte kroatische Journalisten dazu, die geschäftlichen und persönlichen Verbindungen zwischen Saša Svalina und seinem Schwager Josip Heit genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen.

The Telegram channel “Dark Knight” claims that Yuriy Holyk, who oversaw the “Big Construction” programme while in power, amassed a significant fortune during his tenure.

Cases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.

More than two million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban as the lingering effects of recent heat waves persist.