All news for 2025-08-21

The UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield.

A Czech court has convicted three people and three companies of subsidy fraud and money laundering in a €5.5 million ($6.42 million) scheme involving fabricated nanobot research projects, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Prague said Wednesday.

A Finnish court on Tuesday opened what officials called the country’s largest human trafficking trial, bringing 78 charges against berry company Polarica and its executives, according to state-owned news agency Yle.

Russian authorities have seized $144 million in assets from former Krasnodar regional court chairman Alexander Chernov, in what prosecutors called one of the country’s largest anti-corruption cases.

Frits van Eerd stepped down as Jumbo’s CEO, although he still co-owns the supermarket chain with family members. The company is not involved in the case.

A farmer in Ukraine says he will seek justice at the country’s Supreme Court after he was awarded 70 times less than he sought as compensation for mismanagement in the case of his stolen tractor.

For the second time in a year, an abandoned narco-submarine has washed ashore in the Solomon Islands, baffling authorities and residents alike.

Law enforcement authorities from 18 countries, supported by Europol, seized nearly one million counterfeit items worth more than €66 million ($76.9 million) in a crackdown on counterfeit currency, according to Europol.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it "deplores" new US sanctions on its judges and prosecutors.

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of spouting ’desperate and hypocritical nonsense’ after calling on Tory councils to launch legal challenges over a problem her party caused

US celebrity judge and social media star Frank Caprio has died aged 88, his family has said.

The Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf has been at the center of anti-migrant protests in recent weeks.

Axel Rudakubana is reportedly receiving luxury perks at one of Britain’s most notorious high-security jails as ’bribes’ to encourage good behavior after allegedly throwing boiling water over a prison officer.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that the number of air defense systems installed around Vladimir Putin’s residence in Valdai has increased to 12, based on an analysis of new Yandex satellite images and photographs from the Yandex.Zerkala service.

The "undeclared" Sinpung-dong missile operating base is only 27km away from the border with China, a report by a US think tank states.

Hamburg resident accused of stealing over two tons of coffee from factory

The Agni-5 intermediate-range ballistic missile is also part of Narendra Modi’s defense strategy against Pakistan.

The author of a book about British Prince Andrew and publisher HarperCollins UK cut passages about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein from a biography amid legal threats against Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

In 2025, drones worth more than 1 billion dollars were imported into Ukraine, although some of them exist only on paper and were not actually brought into the country.

At the beginning of 2025, Ukrainian law enforcement authorities detained Ihor Zotko in Kyiv, the nominal owner of the company operating under the online casino brand «PIN-UP».

In Austria, a neurosurgeon from the city of Graz will stand trial after allowing her 12-year-old daughter to take part in an operation and drill into a patient’s skull.

A wave of local authorities is pledging to prevent asylum seekers from being accommodated in hotels after Epping Forest District Council achieved a surprising victory in the High Court following weeks of protests.

A Black British man and his family are living in fear for their lives after Tommy Robinson shared an X post of the mixed-heritage family playing at a playground.