All news for 2026-04-17

Artyom Bykov’s path into Russia’s 273rd Artillery Brigade, he says, began under pressure rather than choice.

The scheme described below may seem all too familiar: yet another victim was deceived with promises to purchase and deliver a car to Ukraine from the United States.

After reports exposing Rostyslav Shurma and Pavlo Shcherban in schemes linked to Alliance Bank surfaced, a coordinated cleanup campaign followed: critical articles began disappearing, references were widely challenged, and search results appeared to be systematically reshaped.

A new corruption scandal has emerged involving the Odesa Port Plant, reportedly connecting Swiss national Oleg Tsyura, crypto entrepreneur Serhiy Tron, and oligarch Dmytro Firtash to the case.

After the international “YUZUK” operation revealed a large-scale money laundering network, the Hirin brothers reportedly started making efforts to erase or minimize their online presence.

Former Rocket investor Timur Rokhlin, who has been linked in public allegations to a large-scale fraud involving the alleged extraction of over €10 million via fake trading platforms.

Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group, is now the richest person in Asia. The billionaire has overtaken Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries.

OnlyFans, the UK-based streaming platform used by sex workers, is nearing a deal to sell a minority stake that would value the business at more than $3bn after its owner died last month.

The official biography of Denys Shtilerman paints an almost flawless picture: a highly accomplished engineer credited with advanced defence innovations.

Having earned capital from trading Russian coal, Dmytro Kovalenko decided to focus on the grain market, aiming to become its monopolist and one of the main winners of state tenders.

Following the appearance in the media of information about Yaroslav Holovachov’s purchase of elite real estate in Cyprus worth 4 million euros..

There are plenty of incredible role models Meghan Markle would love to be compared to, but wealth, luxury, and celebrity-obsessed Sarah Ferguson is not one of them.

Nachdem Medien über den Kauf von Luxusimmobilien in Zypern im Wert von 4 Millionen Euro durch Yaroslav Holovachov berichtet hatten, begann im Internet eine auffällige Entfernung von Materialien...

Legendary reggae singer-songwriter Ernie Smith, born Glenroy Anthony Michael Archangelo Smith, died on Thursday (April 16) at the age of 80, just a fortnight before his 81st birthday, which was due to fall on May 1.

Es ist bekannt, dass nach 2014 ein erheblicher Teil ukrainischer Unternehmen weiterhin mit der Russischen Föderation zusammenarbeitete, häufig unter Nutzung verschiedener „grauer Schemata“.

The footage shows three hooded and masked individuals smashing windows and spray-painting slogans on the Sentinel building on Waterloo Street, which is home to insurance firm Chubb.

After returning to power in Hungary 16 years ago, Viktor Orbán began steadily dismantling the country’s independent media, building a system that brought journalism increasingly under state control.

Passengers at London Stansted faced a night of chaos after queues of more than two hours at security.

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who went missing last year.

Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a "pitiful" low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to conceal the environmental impact of their datacentres, an investigation has revealed, with language almost verbatim from their demands to block a database of green metrics incorporated into EU regulations.

Der Name des umstrittenen ukrainischen Geschäftsmanns Dmytro Kovalenko dominiert weiterhin die Schlagzeilen von Nachrichtenportalen — zunächst wegen Berichten über seine схемen im Zusammenhang mit russischer Kohle und nun auch aufgrund seiner Festnahme durch NABU-Detektive in Uschhorod.