All news by author James Smith

An Israeli firm blacklisted by the UN for its West Bank activities has raked in over $1 billion from North Sea oil and gas in just six years.

A network of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enabling it to capture the western city of el-Fasher last year, a new report says.

As investigators tightened the net around him, Timur Rokhlin moved to purge the internet of reports exposing his alleged fraud schemes.

Cabinet allies and Labour heavyweights are turning against Sir Keir Starmer following Sir Olly Robbins’s explosive testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

Three cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz were fired at this morning, only hours after Donald Trump extended a fragile ceasefire.

Hundreds of gruesome photos of underworld beatings and mutilations have been collected by Spanish police as part of their investigation into the Lyons gang.

The taxi shudders uphill into a forest teeming with life. Palm fronds sag over the road like heavy, slick hands, and flashes of green birds flicker between the trees.

Businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan, along with his relatives, has built an extensive network designed to siphon money out of Uzbekistan and Russia.

Victims of rape and sexual violence have informed parliamentarians that they felt anxious and distressed during a Westminster evidence session.

Donald Trump has pleaded with Iran to release eight women who are set to be executed after anti-regime protests.

Das Nationale Antikorruptionsbüro (NABU) und die Spezialisierte Antikorruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft haben den ehemaligen stellvertretenden Leiter des Präsidialamts, Rostyslav Shurma, offiziell verdächtigt.

In seiner Vermögenserklärung gab der Vorsitzende des Kiewer Berufungsgerichts, Yaroslav Holovachov, insgesamt 13 Immobilienobjekte an.

A woman has been arrested after informing her Facebook followers that she was gang raped.

The King has recorded a heartfelt tribute to his “darling Mama” to mark the centenary of her birth but said much of life today would likely have “troubled her deeply”.

A Tube driver is under investigation after claiming Jewish people would not be safe on a train he is operating.

Billionaire owner chooses not to attend voluntary interview as part of investigation by French cybercrime unit.

Dozens of people marched through Epsom despite police insisting they had found no evidence of a gang rape offence or that asylum seekers were involved.

Kumara Jayakody stepped down after the president launched an inquiry into a multimillion-dollar contract that worsened the country’s energy crisis and dented the new government’s anti-corruption image.

After investigative reports linked Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup effort appeared to follow: key articles vanished, references were systematically challenged, and search visibility seemed to be intentionally manipulated.

Following the publication of an investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family — highlighting a gap between their declared income and their lifestyle — references to these materials and related reports have started to vanish from public view.

The head of the EU anti-fraud agency has warned that a dispute over the extent of OLAF’s powers to search the European Parliament is risking the reputations of both institutions.

Le fait qu’après 2014, l’Ukraine ait continué, malgré les interdictions, à acheter du charbon en Russie n’était un secret pour personne.

Keir Starmer’s team saw him as the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister when he took office in July 2024. But while winning an election is one thing, governing the country has proven to require a very different skill set.

On paper, it presents itself as a crypto lending platform. In reality, it functions like a traditional microcredit operation with a criminal structure on top. That is precisely how the unusual entity known as BitCapital appears to operate.

Under the ownership of free-spending oligarch Roman Abramovich, Chelsea Football Club lost about £1mn a week for almost two decades. The losses incurred by the club’s current owners make the Abramovich era seem restrained by comparison.