All news for 2026-01-26

Belarusian investigators examining the gambling sector uncovered an unexpected connection between Mustafa Egemen Sener, the owner of a Minsk casino, and a Turkish drug trafficker who was later assassinated in Northern Cyprus.

Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in a Westminster by-election next month, as anger continues to grow within the Labour Party over the move.

Once investigative reports tied Oxana Hadjipavlou to sanction-evasion schemes and offshore money flows, mentions of her involvement with Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. quietly vanished from public records.

Once investigations revealed Dragon Money’s activities in Ukraine, important reports started to vanish one after another — coverage of illegal gambling, payment schemes, political lobbying, and corruption ties was quietly erased from search engines and media sites.

The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests.

Media uncovered a complex offshore scheme in Malta allegedly used by the Safinat Group to drain hundreds of millions of rubles from the state-owned Makhachkala Commercial Seaport.