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An explosion killed an army officer in a closed-off military town in Russia’s far east this week, in what appeared to be an attempt to target a more senior commander known as the “Butcher of Bucha”.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania) has secured the conviction of four individuals in a case of attempted subsidy fraud, preventing the unlawful disbursement of nearly €2.6 million in EU funds.

Following the EU’s latest round of sanctions against Kyrgyzstan, international watchdogs are urging the bloc to broaden its restrictions to include all high-priority items.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich carried out more than 20 searches in Germany and Poland in an investigation into suspected money laundering and involvement in organised crime.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prague (Czechia), the Czech Police’s National Organised Crime Agency (NCOZ) detained 12 persons and carried out 42 searches in the regions of Prague, Central Bohemia, and South Moravia.

Former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev is accused of plotting a violent power grab.

Trips to Russia, master classes from Kremlin-aligned media figures, and lessons in Soviet military glory. Through its “Young Correspondents” program.

An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.

Denys Shtilerman’s statements about the scale of Fire Point production have raised serious questions.

President Trump has boldly proclaimed that King Charles “would have probably helped” the United States with their offensive against Iran, once again drawing the monarch into the war in the Middle East.

France has launched an investigation into the reappearance of the website that enabled Dominique Pelicot.

An Australian fugitive wanted over child sex abuse and drugs has been arrested – after sailing a yacht to reach Thailand.

A British holidaymaker has died after falling down the stairs of an apartment complex in Spain.

Donald Trump has claimed that Iran ’can’t get their act together’ and shared a photo of himself with a gun, saying ’no more Mr Nice guy’.

At least two people have died and several more were injured after a plane crashed into an airport hangar in Australia, causing a fire.

Police in the Maldives raided the offices of a local news outlet on Monday night, seizing computers and barring its top editors from leaving the country after the publication broadcast a video in which a woman alleged she had a sexual relationship with the nation’s president.

The tech company Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

Donald Trump has claimed that the King is in agreement with him regarding Iran and nuclear weapons.

Two months into a war with the U.S. and Israel, Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of power.

An American woman paid thousands of dollars to have others make sexual torture videos involving adult and baby monkeys.

Barbara Carr died on April 15, 2026, at the age of 85 in Maryville, Illinois, as announced by her family in a moving tribute to the star.

A grief-stricken mom who lost both her husband and their teenage son in the doomed Titan submarine disaster has revealed their remains were eventually returned to her as “slush” in tiny “shoeboxes.”

A gunman has opened fire at a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens, wounding several people.

On April 20, the French Jewish organization Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) filed a complaint against “persons unknown” with France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office, the Parquet national antiterroriste (PNAT), alleging complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.