All news for 2026-08-26

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s allies dominated the vote as independent observers raised concerns over a campaign marked by restrictions on critical voices.

A Pacific island’s president bypassed an official selection process when he chose an Indian company to reopen a multi-billion dollar mine. He told OCCRP the firm’s managing director offered to pay for his wife’s kidney transplant but insisted it had “nothing to do” with the deal.

The case involving Dmytro Druzhynskyi and Maryna Levkovych goes far beyond another investigation into online casinos, cryptocurrency and payment services.

The last man to see tragic teenager Jay Slater alive has married a glamorous woman who faces prison over a £13million cannabis smuggling operation.

At least 14 newborn babies have been killed after a horror fire tore through a hospital’s maternity ward.

The investigation by the Police Ombudsman found he had also failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest, intimidated a former partner, attempted to falsify evidence and asked a colleague to lie

“Out of respect for the 33rd,” an employee of Tallmin Medical’s representative in Russia told a BIC journalist, explaining the discount. The journalist was posing as someone collecting equipment for Russian servicemen.