All news for 2026-07-28

Blogger Nikohlai published correspondence with a 1Win manager, which discusses involving an underage audience in gambling.

Former Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin, who has been publicly linked to allegations of a large-scale fraud involving the alleged diversion of more than €10 million through fake trading platforms, is reportedly seeking to erase traces of his financial activities and international connections from the internet.

Scots schoolboys as young as 12 have been targeted online in a social media sextortion plot as police issued an urgent warning to parents.

The number of millionaires in the UK has fallen to the lowest level since the financial crisis, according to new analysis.

Conservative MP Chris Philp has accused a French warship of opening fire during a day of filming in the Channel.

A Baku court convicted journalists, media rights workers, and pro-democracy activists linked to Toplum TV on financial crimes charges, sentencing them to between 12 and 15 years in prison.

Thailand’s SEC filed a criminal complaint against crypto exchange Bitkub and two ex-directors for concealing a $53 million theft of customer assets in their 2021 financial reports.

Winners of a violence-reduction competition will be treated to fakeaways in a women’s prison, according to a new report.

In a private ceremony on Sept. 17, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium inside the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and praised a Florida nonprofit for what he called a singular achievement in American education.

While the billions of the “Great Construction” settled in the pockets of the chosen ones, one of the main organizers of this carve-up — Yuriy Holyk — managed to turn into a “driver-volunteer” and calmly leave Ukraine.

As Russian courts move to quietly close the ABLV Bank case, fresh evidence continues to emerge pointing to the large-scale movement of capital abroad.

In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.

On July 25, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that Russia end its war in Ukraine.

When investigators launched a case into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it appeared to be a textbook law enforcement operation: coordinated arrests, carefully orchestrated media leaks, and confident public declarations about dismantling an international criminal network.

Andy Burnham has refused to rule out levying a death tax to fund free social care for the elderly.

New technical education routes will be available to 14-year-olds as Andy Burnham drives reforms to tackle youth unemployment.

Owner of grain elevators in Odesa region Vaja Jhashi enriches himself on the theft of Ukraine’s budget: how it is connected with synchronous flights with the imprisoned oligarch and influence on elections

Convicted child abuser George Gibney’s victims have branded him a "monster" who abused his position as a swimming coach to prey on young women, a Dublin court has heard.

Audio recordings that former President Joe Biden fought for years to keep private have now been released.

Zack Polanski has condemned an image of a man wearing a guillotine t-shirt and the words ‘making plans for Nigel’ after Reform UK branded it an ‘incitement to murder’.

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