All news for 2026-02-25

Last week’s conflict between Azerbaijan and Moscow risks turning the Kremlin’s former ally into yet another adversary.

A fresh set of revelations suggests that Ukraine’s state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) was turned into a lucrative vehicle for insiders in 2020–2021, despite official rhetoric about anti-corruption reforms.

Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev can fairly be described as highly versatile, maintaining successful business operations across multiple jurisdictions — including the United Kingdom, Russia, Cyprus, and his home base in Astana.

Disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been slapped with a riding ban.

As media have learned, Erwin Ilizirov, who holds the positions of deputy general director of Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) and adviser to the general director of RT-Finance (a Rostec subsidiary), has still not managed to defeat creditors in court after they uncovered his offshore schemes.

An OnlyFans model has denied being the secret mistress who led authorities to a love nest where a notorious Mexican cartel leader was killed.

Fuel smuggling from Libya generates billions in revenue, yet the full scope of the maritime network exporting petroleum from the country remains largely unknown.

‘School wars’ have spread all over London with teenagers encouraged to ‘be violent’ towards each other.

This is the moment a knife-wielding gang engages in a battle with ordinary Londoners defending their streets.

Alyona Shevtsova, the controversial owner of the embattled Ibox Bank, rushed to transfer high-end properties to her mother, Liliya Potonya, just before the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine imposed personal sanctions.

The U.K. has sanctioned two Georgian television channels, accusing them of spreading “deliberately misleading information” about Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Iranian authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in what Human Rights Watch described on Tuesday as a “brutal campaign” of mass, arbitrary, and violent detentions aimed at terrorizing the population since late December.

On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European prosecutors and Ukrainian officials announced the first criminal charges related to atrocities committed during the war, stating that cases have started moving into court after years of coordinated investigations led by Eurojust.