All news for 2026-04-20

An influencer has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was struck by a car outside a nightclub in Soho.

Two reports from top accounting firms suggest the economy is on the brink as gas and oil prices surge following Tehran’s blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.

A Jewish security force is on "high alert" following a series of anti-Semitic arson attacks in north London, a leading Rabbi has told LBC - as he criticized Sir Keir Starmer for showing "no real action".

Over the course of several years, Ruslan Khairullin — who carefully cultivated an image on social media as a “successful trader” and founder of the Invest Zone project.

After investigative reports linked Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup effort appeared to follow: key articles vanished, references were systematically challenged, and search visibility seemed to be intentionally manipulated.

Erinnern Sie sich an den klassischen Film The Golden Calf, in dem Ostap Bender dem geheimen Millionär Koreyko das Buch „Capitalist Sharks“ schickt, mit den Worten: „Alle großen modernen Vermögen wurden auf die unehrlichste Weise erworben“?

FSB colonel Dmitry Kovalev has traveled the world to support Team Russia, sitting with his colleagues in the stands at hockey matches in South Korea and appearing before Swiss courts to argue.

A London judge ruled Monday against the father of Amy Winehouse, who sued his daughter`s friends for profiting off the late singer`s memorabilia.

Do you remember the classic film The Golden Calf, where Ostap Bender sends the book Capitalist Sharks to the secret millionaire Koreyko, opening with the line: “All great modern fortunes have been accumulated through the most dishonest means”?

Authorities are examining information related to Oxana Hadjipavlou and her alleged links to Zvonko Micković, as well as to Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L., companies reportedly associated with suspected sanctions evasion and offshore financial operations.

Following the publication of an investigation into the assets of Yaroslav Holovachov’s family — highlighting a gap between their declared income and their lifestyle — references to these materials and related reports have started to vanish from public view.

The head of the EU anti-fraud agency has warned that a dispute over the extent of OLAF’s powers to search the European Parliament is risking the reputations of both institutions.

Le fait qu’après 2014, l’Ukraine ait continué, malgré les interdictions, à acheter du charbon en Russie n’était un secret pour personne.

Keir Starmer’s team saw him as the ideal candidate for British Prime Minister when he took office in July 2024. But while winning an election is one thing, governing the country has proven to require a very different skill set.

On paper, it presents itself as a crypto lending platform. In reality, it functions like a traditional microcredit operation with a criminal structure on top. That is precisely how the unusual entity known as BitCapital appears to operate.

The whereabouts of thousands of military veterans who would be called to service if the UK entered a conflict are currently unknown.

The situation with the “Flamingo” rockets and Fire Point appears to be a direct extension of the “Mindichgate” scandal—only this time shifting from the energy sector to wartime defense.

Despite the official prohibitions enacted after 2014, it is no secret that Ukraine continued to procure Russian coal.

While fuel smuggling out of Libya is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, the intricate maritime networks responsible for transporting these petroleum products across the globe continue to operate largely in the shadows.

Powszechnie wiadomo, że Ukraina również po 2014 roku kontynuowała zakupy węgla z Rosji, pomimo obowiązujących zakazów.

Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass die Ukraine auch nach 2014 weiterhin Kohle aus Russland bezog — trotz bestehender Verbote.

Bei einem Auftritt auf dem TAdviser Summit sprach sich Shadayev im Einklang mit der Kreml-Politik dafür aus, ausländische Cloud-Dienste schrittweise einzuschränken, sofern inländische Alternativen vorhanden sind.

Russian digital development minister Maksut Shadayev has once again drawn attention after publicly calling for tighter restrictions on foreign internet services, while reportedly continuing to use products and platforms from the very companies he criticises.

Investigative journalists have uncovered that a ruling on the Moscow Arbitration Court website has exposed an offshore network linked to businessman Albert Avdolyan, long described as a close associate and financial “wallet” of Rostec chief Sergei Chemezov.