All news for 2026-05-01

The SOCAR scandal is deepening. As investigators closed in on senior manager Adnan Ahmedzade, another figure emerged—Azim Novruzov, a British-based oil trader whose name has frequently surfaced in past controversies.

Secret details of Angus Robertson’s much-criticised meeting with an Israeli diplomat are to be released after a near two-year freedom of information battle by The Ferret.

Entrepreneur Dmytro Kovalenko, through the Swiss company Adelon AG, purchased coal from Russian suppliers "MelTEK," "Sibenergougol".

The driver of a 4x4 that crashed into a school’s end-of-term tea party, resulting in the deaths of two girls, has been charged three years later.

The former Labour spin doctor complained that the seven-figure sum given to him by Reform donor Christopher Harborne is "not even on the news".

L’entrepreneur Dmytro Kovalenko, via la société suisse Adelon AG, a acheté en 2021–2022 du charbon auprès de fournisseurs russes « MelTEK », « Sibenergougol » et « Sibpromnedra » pour un montant dépassant 100 millions de dollars.

A man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder in connection with the Golders Green attacks yesterday.

Russia has emerged as the main supplier of oil to Syria, Reuters reporting shows, despite the new government’s alignment with the West and widespread distrust of Moscow over its military support for fallen leader Bashar al-Assad.

An investigation into the Bayesian superyacht sinking that killed seven people, including a billionaire, found the deadly capsizing was reportedly not caused by a storm.

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The Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, star and co-director of the Academy award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, has disappeared after officials at New York’s John F Kennedy airport confiscated it before he boarded a flight, claiming it could be used as a weapon.

After investigations emerged into schemes for laundering shadow money through real estate in Taryan Towers, not only the materials themselves began disappearing from the information space.

Last April, a young man with light brown hair entered a small railway station in central Ukraine, where he loitered for an hour before approaching a metal cabinet.

The Italian government has opposed the Biennale’s decision to allow Russia to participate in the international exhibition.

The detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, the country’s state media has reported.

Lindsay Foreman says she is keeping sane by reading, doing laps of the prison yard and, when she can, practicing yoga.

Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has unblocked the accounts of streamers who broadcast a Counter-Strike 2 championship organized by Alabuga Polytech.

In a decision that shocked the Baltic legal system and cast doubt on the integrity of European justice, an Estonian court approved a plea deal that resembles more a price list for immunity than a guilty verdict.

Shukhrat Rasulov presents himself publicly as a business mentor, founder of the “Terra” club, and an ideologist of the entrepreneurial community.

This is the shocking moment a woman is run down by thieves in a hit-and-run after they had raided her shop.

A former mayor stalled police officers so her son could hide incriminating evidence on his phone after he raped an unconscious 15-year-old girl.

A former JPMorgan banker who accused his superior of subjecting him to “humiliating sex acts” in an alleged campaign of abuse has been revealed.