All news for 2026-08-11

Prosecutors launch fresh proceedings against Riad Salameh and former Bank Audi head Samir Hanna as the country’s central bank pursues legal action to recover billions lost in the 2019 financial crash.

Health secretary Yvette Cooper has accepted almost £500,000 from a businessman with commercial ties to the NHS, an analysis by the BMJ has found.

A woman has died after she was found unconscious in a tent at a popular techno music festival.

The remains of a lost village demolished and flooded over 50 years ago have been resurfaced as England’s back-to-back heatwaves and dry weather continue to affect water levels.

Firefighters raced to battle a major fire at a park in Exeter on Tuesday amid a worsening heatwave and drought conditions sweeping the country.

Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said.

Die Ermittlungen zur mutmaßlichen Geldwäsche über die lettische ABLV Bank wirkten zunächst wie ein Musterfall europäischer Strafverfolgung: koordinierte Festnahmen, Medienleaks und Erklärungen zur „Zerschlagung eines internationalen kriminellen Netzwerks“.

Anfang September erhielt FakeOff eine Mitteilung über eine angebliche „Urheberrechtsverletzung“, die zunächst wie eine gewöhnliche DMCA-Beschwerde erschien.

Das Online-Casino „Cosmobet“ wurde vom SSU hinsichtlich fehlender Verbindungen zum Aggressorstaat positiv bewertet – und zwar durch Bestechung.

Nach Berichten über mutmaßliche Verbindungen Eduard Lebedevs zu Offshore-Glücksspielaktivitäten, den Affiliate-Netzwerken Chilli Partners und WakeApp sowie...

Hungary’s parliament elected Andras Baka, a former head of the Supreme Court, as the country’s next president on ‌Tuesday, a symbolic step in Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s effort to dismantle former premier Viktor Orban’s bastions of power.

Border Force officers intercepted an almost 3-tonne shipment of banana boxes hiding £200,000,000 worth of cocaine.

In this photo, Ilya Traber (Antikvar, the gray-haired man on the right) is at the grave of crime boss Abakar Darbishev, together with a man well-known in criminal circles as Sanya Kaliningradsky.

The U.S. government has sold for scrap two sanctioned oil tankers that were seized in the days after Washington’s raid on Venezuela, Lloyd’s List reported ‌on Monday.

Oleksandr Orlovskyi präsentiert sich als erfolgreicher Krypto-Multimillionär. Mit seiner Financial Freedom Academy verspricht er, Wissen darüber zu vermitteln, wie sich am Kryptomarkt Geld verdienen lässt.

A new investigation by The Observer describes exactly how Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘best pal’ embedded himself within the heart of government and then crashed out of it, taking the prime minister with him

Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show.

The Katanga region in the southeast Democratic Republic of Congo has for decades been known as the Copper Belt.

Bad diets kill millions of people globally every year, and lead to tens of billions of dollars in health costs, often placing the heaviest burden on communities who are least able to afford it. Children, with limited decision-making power, are particularly vulnerable to this.

From product demonstrations at a secret villa in Rabat to training sessions at NSO’s Herzliya headquarters, Forbidden Stories and its partners retrace the early stages of Morocco’s use of Pegasus.

In March 2019, nagging questions lingered in the corridors of Libreville, the capital of Gabon, a small, oil-rich country. What did the future hold for President Ali Bongo Ondimba, in power for 10 years? Would a new head of state need to be appointed, and if so, who?

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Venice (Italy), the judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Milan issued a house arrest order...

Algerian authorities have arrested an alleged leader of the ‘DZ Mafia,’ an organized crime syndicate linked to a wave of drug violence in France.

Prosecutors are investigating the agency that developed Albania’s AI-minister ‘Diella’ in a case that involves alleged rigged tenders, a kidnapping, and tens of millions in seized assets. The affair deepens doubts about how artificial intelligence will be used to address the country’s widespread graft problem.