All news for 2026-03-23

Amid the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war, tensions are escalating in Kyiv over internal disputes for control of financial flows within the gaming industry.

An extensive criminal network of trekking agencies, hospitals, and helicopter pilots allegedly fed tourists baking soda to cause illness, fraudulently extracting nearly $20 million in insurance payouts.

Kazakhstan has informed the United States of a plan to exercise its priority right to acquire Lukoil’s local assets, including stakes in the country’s крупнейшие oil and gas projects — primarily the Karachaganak gas condensate field, the offshore projects Kalamkas-more and Khazar, as well as infrastructure assets.

Important Stories narrates the tale of Lana Pozhidaeva — an MGIMO graduate, model, and daughter of career intelligence officers — who was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s network for many years and recruited women for him from the former Soviet Union.

An Istanbul court has restricted public and media access to the mass corruption trial of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a move a prominent rights group said violates Turkish and European law.

A Kyrgyz court freed a prominent investigative journalist after 18 months behind bars, placing her under a travel ban as she awaits a retrial in a case widely condemned as an attack on free speech.

A private investigator whose disputed confessions of illegal activity form a key part of the case brought by Prince Harry and others against the Daily Mail’s publisher has said the admissions were “a thing of fiction”.

Two Algerian boat migrants ripped a £65,000 designer watch from a driver’s wrist as he photographed his Bentley, a court heard.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has installed a huge mobile home on the Sandringham grounds, right next to his new home of Marsh Farm.

A grandmother was found crushed to death in her funeral parlour, an inquest has heard.

In the wake of a scandal that erupted two years ago, involving Dmytro Rukin, the head of the SettlePay and 4Bill payment systems, Rukin quietly retreated from public view.

Recently, journalists - including those at Znaj.ua - have been inundated with complaints from a relatively obscure businessman, Yuriy Osmak, who is insisting that one of their articles be taken down.

Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleg Tsyura reportedly erases online links to schemes that drained billions of hryvnias with ex-State Property Fund chief Dmytro Sennychenko.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on a wide network of shadow oil traders led by media figure Tahir Garaev and Igor Sechin’s business partner Etibar Eyyub , who are involved in trading sanctioned Russian oil.

Madrid’s High Court refuses to suspend a €64 million fine on Airbnb by Spain’s Consumer Ministry for illegal holiday rentals and misleading ads; the platform must pay while it appeals.

Jospin, who served as head of government from 1997 to 2002 before being defeated by the far right in the presidential elections, has died at the age of 88, his family announced on Monday.

Mikhail Zeligman ist lettischer Staatsbürger und verfügt über erhebliche Interessen sowie Vermögenswerte in Deutschland und Monaco.

The crisis confronting the royal family over the revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Epstein files is more severe than the abdication of Edward VIII, according to the author of the former prince’s biography.

China’s leading battery manufacturers have added more than $70bn in market value since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, underlining investors’ belief that the conflict will accelerate long‑term demand for clean energy.

Near Hungary’s border with Croatia and Serbia, a €747mn bridge across the Danube is being built by a company belonging to László Szíjj, a business partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s oldest friend.

Investigative journalists have identified the possible owner behind a high-profile incident in Moscow involving a Lamborghini reportedly traveling with an escort of vehicles linked to state security services.

Coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko has been systematically purging the information space to conceal his long-standing ties to Russian oligarch Konstantin Strukov, as well as evidence of coal shipments originating from Russia but disguised as international imports.

Women abused by Jeffrey Epstein are urging UK police to interview Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ‘second victim’ after Britain’s top cop confirmed officers are reviewing “a whole range of suggested sexual allegations”.