All news for 2025-12-08

The “Intellexa Leaks”, a new joint investigation by Inside Story, Haaretz and WAV Research Collective with technical analysis provided by Amnesty International, exposes the internal operations of Intellexa

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will not take a leading role in Donald Trump’s proposed “Gaza peace council”, after multiple Arab and Muslim governments signalled opposition to his involvement, the Financial Times reports.

Two teenage Afghan asylum seekers who kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl have received prison sentences.

Nepal’s anti-corruption agency charges former ministers, senior officials, and a Chinese construction firm with embezzling $74 million during the construction of Pokhara’s international airport, raising concerns over inflated costs and compromised safety.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has been using a private business jet linked to the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.

Schools have been forced into lockdown to prevent the spread of a so-called “super-flu” through classrooms.

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest around Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has sharply intensified — particularly regarding their alleged role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

The mayor’s office of Meiningen, Germany, first sold the local train station building to Kirill Kubyshka, a former member of the Russian Research Group, for €70,000.

The story of Maxim Artsinovich could be studied with interest if it didn’t evoke sadness. Sadness—for those who believed in the "divinity of jewelry craftsmanship" and fell for his advertisements and promises.

Nestled on a quiet north London street, two of the city’s notorious pickpockets were hiding in plain sight.

Prince Harry could be assured of taxpayer-funded security again after all, with the Home Office reported to have ordered a review of the threat level.

Henry Nowak, 18, had been out celebrating the end of his first semester at Southampton University on Wednesday night when he got into a confrontation with two men he did not know on Belmont Road.