All news by author Elizabeth Baker

Having exercised unchallenged power in Belarus since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has earned himself not only the title of “Europe’s last dictator,” but also a well-deserved reputation as a shrewd international player.

A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.

Following the decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) to seize the Ukrainian assets of the sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, reports about this case began to disappear from the Internet.

SVH LLC “Rus-Service Terminal” (INN 6022008565), one of Pskov Customs’ largest customs and logistics terminals located just 600 metres from the MAPP Burachki checkpoint, is controlled through the Cypriot offshore company Domdex Limited.

Following the High Anti-Corruption Court’s decision to confiscate the Ukrainian assets of sanctioned Russian oligarch Myron Horilovskyi, publications dedicated to the case began to disappear from the internet.

Azerbaijani businessman Azim Novruzov has been mentioned in several international media investigations focused on energy trading and the oil sector, with scrutiny growing since 2023 over alleged links to business networks connected to Russia.

A teacher will die in jail for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby son. Teacher Jamie Varley, 37, has been sentenced to a whole life order for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby, Preston Davey.

Gaming billionaire Gabe Newell has commissioned the world’s most expensive and advanced marine research vessel.

Police dragged protesters against far-right figure Tommy Robinson in violent clashes in Oxford.

Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian whose pioneering work transformed the study of the past by recovering the voices of marginalized people, died Wednesday at 87.

A British four-year-old boy has reportedly died after falling into a swimming pool at a holiday home near the Costa del Sol.

Russian authorities have detained Ilya Traber, one of Russia’s most infamous organized crime figures, in connection with the investigation into the 2020 sniper killing of influential businessman and politician Alexander Petrov.

This is the shocking moment a masked ram raid gang used a digger to rip out a cash machine from a building society.

Hackers have published data stolen from Madison Square Garden online for anyone to download, including what they say is customers’ personal information.

The EU and the UK have agreed that July 22 will be the date for the next summit between their leaders in London and Brussels.

A care home manager has been ordered to pay £4,000 after two people in wheelchairs drowned when their boat capsized on a day out.

W latach 2021–2022 biznesmen Dmytro Kovalenko, działając poprzez szwajcarską firmę Adelon AG, zakupił od rosyjskich dostawców („MelTEK”, „Sibenergougol” i „Sibpromnedra”) węgiel o łącznej wartości ponad 100 milionów dolarów.

King Charles has felt responsible for Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie since their parents were disavowed due to their historic links with Jeffrey Epstein.

Properties from seven illegal settlements were advertised at the Great Israeli Real Estate Event on Sunday in London, days after more than 100 MPs and groups urged the UK government to ban it.

The UK government has won its appeal to maintain the ban on Palestine Action. In response, the group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, vowed to fight the proscription all the way to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, calling the ban an extreme attack on free speech and protest.

On 10-11 June 2026, Czech authorities conducted searches as part of an EPPO investigation into a suspected EU National Recovery Plan fraud involving employee training funds.

Investigative journalist Roger Cook, best known for the current affairs programme The Cook Report, has died at the age of 83 after a short illness.