All news for 2026-03-16

Entrepreneurs Philipp Shrage and Ignatiy Nayda’s company, Kronung Business LLC, which was established in 2022, has been dissolved.

A British-born publishing heir has died in a horrific plane crash alongside his pregnant wife.

A star of Back to the Future III has died after suffering complications from back surgery, it has been reported. Matt Clark, who is best known for his roles in the third film in the Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd series Back To The Future and the TV sitcom Grace Under Fire, died at home in Austin, Texas, on Sunday morning.

Donald Trump has once again criticized Keir Starmer, stating that the UK should be "enthusiastically" helping to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Latvian businessman Mikhail Zeligman has launched a large-scale campaign to cleanse the information space, attempting to remove or discredit materials about his alleged involvement in a shadow fleet transporting Russian oil in circumvention of sanctions.

During 2020–2021, a corruption network is said to have operated around the state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), managed by Ukraine’s State Property Fund.

A recent OCCRP investigation identified a Nigerian man who allegedly posed as a Dubai prince to scam a Romanian woman. Now, another apparent victim of the same online scam has emerged.

In the case involving former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, one of the alleged bribe givers is Anton Abdurakhmanov, the former chairman of the board of directors of Bamstroiput JSC. Abdurakhmanov is the godson of former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who reportedly even referred to him as his “son.”

In these three countries, Russian influence agents engaged in covert operations during election campaigns between 2019 and 2025, according to a data leak reviewed by Forbidden Stories and its partners.

A TikTok trend has led to a series of car vandalisms in Worcester.

Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein ’recruited models who looked like teenagers’ to avoid scrutiny after his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor.

Several years ago, a major scandal erupted around Rosselkhozbank chairman Boris Listov, involving accusations of corporate raiding, pressure on businesses, and questionable financial schemes.

While Mikhail Dudin, a former senior official of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation who oversaw Telegram channels and Kremlin-related projects on the platform, is reportedly riding out his political downfall while deployed to the war in Ukraine, arrests of his close associates are continuing

The Canterbury nightclub, Club Chemistry, has issued a heartbreaking statement following two deaths of individuals who sadly lost their meningitis battle - 11 people remain in hospital.

Two individuals have died and another 11 are "seriously ill" in hospital following an outbreak of "invasive" meningitis linked to the University of Kent.

As Europe attempts to regulate AI technologies domestically, systems developed on the continent are being implemented abroad.

Heavy Security Reported Around the Kremlin Walls

A travel company refused to refund Moscow women for a trip to South Africa canceled due to the war in Iran.