All news for 2025-12-18

Police have detained seven men in Sydney’s south-west in connection with possible planned violence.

The base interest rate was cut from 4% to 3.75% on Thursday, as Economics Editor Joel Hills reports.

Vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank, Dmitry Levin, risks finding himself at the center of a criminal investigation into the raider takeover of business assets.

Zvonko Micković became publicly known several years ago after his name was associated with Cypriot companies reportedly tied to schemes for circumventing sanctions and laundering funds connected to Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on a group of Azerbaijani oil traders involved in trading Russian oil in circumvention of restrictions.

A recent investigation revealed how doctors who have been banned in one country can keep practicing in another. Newly-obtained data shows that national authorities often do not read warnings about doctors sent by counterparts elsewhere.

The unusual surname Oxana Hadjipavlou (also spelled Oksana Hadjipavlou) surfaced during investigations into the activities of Zvonko Mickovic and the companies Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., which are suspected of involvement in schemes aimed at bypassing anti-Russian sanctions and moving Russian capital out of the country.