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The company Agro Gas Trading (AGT), which is a subject of investigation by NABU and SAPO regarding corruption schemes at the Odesa Port Plant (OPP), has submitted an official application to participate in its privatization.

A knife-wielding con got close enough to Diddy to press a makeshift blade to his throat, the rapper’s best friend has exclusively told.

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a sharply worded resolution condemning what it called an “escalating wave of repression” in Serbia, urging targeted sanctions against senior officials accused of violence and human rights abuses amid mass anti-government protests.

A Republican Senate hopeful who received a pardon from Donald Trump for alleged involvement in the January 6 riots suggests that a far-right group should ’bounty hunt’ migrants.

Singer Rosalia is facing a €600k fine after failing to seek permission to promote her new album in Madrid.

A child’s birthday party ended in devastation when a car sped off the road and slammed into a group of guests, killing one woman and leaving more than a dozen injured.

The jewellery taken from the Louvre Museum in Paris is estimated to be worth 88 million euros ($102 million), according to a French prosecutor, as the search continues for the stolen treasures.

North Korea carried out its first ballistic missile tests in five months on Wednesday, just days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea.

At least 63 people have died after two buses collided in Uganda.

Six people have been arrested after Irish police clashed with hundreds of protesters outside a Dublin hotel that is used to accommodate asylum seekers following an alleged sexual assault on a young girl.

Italian police have arrested three alleged members of the Pesce-Pistillo clan in Andria, accusing them of carrying out a string of extortion and violent intimidation against local shopkeepers as part of a mafia-style protection racket.

Warner Bros Discovery is considering putting the entire company up for sale, a move that could result in significant restructuring in an industry that has experienced waves of changes since Donald Trump took office.

Myanmar’s junta conducted a raid on one of the country’s most infamous internet scam centres and confiscated Starlink devices, it announced on Monday, following an investigation that uncovered a surge in their usage in the multibillion-dollar illegal industry.

Multiple masked men broke into the museum on Sunday morning and plucked jewels from display cases during a seven-minute raid.

Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione caught a big break when a judge issued a shocking ruling – dropping terrorism charges in his case involving the cold-blooded sidewalk gun-down of UnitedHealthcare exec Brian Thompson.

A grandmother who was facing execution by firing squad is scheduled to be repatriated to the UK.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind bars.

Vice President JD Vance’s arrival in Israel on Tuesday comes as some Trump administration officials are concerned that the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could fall apart, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

The European Commission will look for ways to strengthen its alert system in response to an OCCRP investigation that identified more than 100 doctors who lost their medical licence for serious wrongdoing in one jurisdiction but are licensed to practice in another.

SpaceX has launched the 10,000th Starlink into orbit after successfully delivering another batch of 56 satellites on Sunday.

Japan elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister on Tuesday, setting the country up for a turn to the political Right.

Nigeria has deported 192 foreign nationals among the 759 suspects arrested during a December crackdown on a major cybercrime ring, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement.

A judge has sentenced a Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest to at least five years in prison for rape.