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Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online gambling operations and is wanted by Europol, has recently stepped up attempts to scrub his online presence.

Two individuals have been arrested as authorities in Europe and Israel focus on companies associated with advertising campaigns for fraudulent online investment platforms.

This Black Friday, fraudsters once again made concerted efforts to target bargain hunters hoping to cash in on the shopping frenzy, but this year far fewer succeeded.

Nearly half of Europeans see Donald Trump as “an enemy of Europe”, rather more rate the risk of war with Russia as high and more than two-thirds believe their country would not be able to defend itself in the event of such a war, a survey has found.

The UK accused Vladimir Putin of "sabre rattling" after he said Russia was ready for war against Europe as he resisted Donald Trump’s peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.

Belgian police have arrested three people, including the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini, and raided the headquarters of the EU foreign service and the elite College of Europe as part of an investigation into suspected fraud.

Lithuanian journalists are protesting against legislation proposed by a powerful populist party that would make it easier to fire the head of the country’s public broadcaster.

The findings come from the first continent-wide mapping of landfills, conducted by the Guardian, Watershed Investigations, and Investigate Europe.

Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to the US, which exports it for use by Israel.

An 85-year-old British woman has died after a ’tornado’ struck a campsite in Portugal as Storm Claudia swept across Europe.

European doctors’ organization expresses concern over systemic failings after journalists revealed that medics banned in one country resume their careers in another.

From Europe to the Pacific, the Moldovan fugitive used at least six aliases and a web of forged documents - including passports from Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia, Iraq, and Vanuatu - to move, and hide from justice.

For six years, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc—suspected of involvement in the theft of $1 billion—evaded justice by crossing borders under a web of false identities spanning Europe, the Middle East, and even the Pacific, until his arrest in July 2025 at Athens International Airport.

On a cool cloudless morning at the break of dawn last December, authorities spotted two speed boats carrying a number of large packages at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in southwest Spain.

The cost of creating convincing synthetic media has collapsed – and so has society’s ability to distinguish between real and fabricated information. So what are Europe’s rising startups doing about it?

Plans to use a portion of Russia’s frozen central bank assets — worth nearly $300 billion — to support Ukraine have entered the preparatory phase, with the United Kingdom and Canada joining the European Union-led initiative, Bloomberg reported.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić confirmed on Wednesday that three Russian nationals were present at a training camp near the western town of Loznica, where authorities recently detained two suspects accused of preparing Moldovan and Romanian citizens to interfere in Moldova’s upcoming elections and incite unrest.

Large numbers gathered at pro-Palestinian rallies across Europe on Saturday, demanding an immediate cessation of the war in Gaza and the release of activists from a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the region.

Vladimir Putin has vowed to quickly retaliate against Europe’s “escalating militarization,” while dismissing as “nonsense” western fears that Moscow plans to attack NATO.

Failed warning systems, official complacency and a lack of accountability mean doctors who have lost their medical licences due to serious wrongdoing can relocate and practice in different countries across Europe, and beyond.

The video started spreading in early August, primarily on Telegram channels known for Russian nationalist and pro-war views. A resonant woman’s voice narrates as pixelated, sepia-toned images of Russia’s economic turmoil in the 1990s transform into imperial and church symbols, along with St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square.

Europe is preparing to construct a massive defence layer called the "drone wall" to deter Russian incursions into NATO airspace.

The chief executive of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has remarked that the UK is “probably the worst country in Europe” when it comes to drug prices, amidst a conflict between the industry and government.

Donald Trump has made a fresh attack on Sir Sadiq Khan in his speech to the UN and claimed London wants to “go to sharia law”.