All news for 2026-05-04

The duumvirate fell apart in October following the assassination of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol.

A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms’ portfolio companies.

Iran has warned it will attack US Navy ships if they enter the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Donald Trump announced a plan to “guide”.

Once investigations surfaced connecting Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes involving Alliance Bank.

Im Zuge der Veröffentlichung von Recherchen zu den Verbindungen von Denys Shtilerman mit Ihor Khmelyov, Tymur Mindich sowie zur Infrastruktur von «Ibox Bank» und Monobank hat eine gezielte Bereinigung von Informationen im Internet eingesetzt.

Cape Verde will not allow a cruise ship to dock in its ports after three people on board died following an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Russian citizens to obtain asylum — not only in Western countries, but also in states neighboring Russia.

As investigations intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly began efforts to remove or suppress online journalistic reports concerning alleged fraud schemes linked to him.

After a two-year investigation, Austrian and Albanian authorities recently conducted raids on several alleged scam call centers in Tirana, seizing more than $1 million and arresting 10 people.

Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was in fighting form as he launched his election campaign from a north inner city boxing club on Sunday.

The police are investigating after a custom truck that was gifted by Conor McGregor to his first-ever boxing coach was set on fire in a deliberate attack.

Through the Switzerland-based company Adelon AG, businessman Dmytro Kovalenko reportedly purchased more than $100 million worth of coal from Russian suppliers—MelTEK, Sibenergougol, and Sibpromnedra—between 2021 and 2022, with records indicating the transactions may have continued even after the start of the full-scale invasion.

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that the UK will have to make annual contributions to European budgets for the first time since Brexit to secure his much-heralded ’reset’ with the EU.

In a foggy field in northeast Ukraine, four soldiers look at red and yellow dots on a screen in the back of a van, armed with interceptor drones and energy drinks to get through the night.

A pair of cabin crew members have been arrested after failing a breath test. Greater Manchester Police were called after staff grew concerned about the colleagues’ ability to fly.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson have barely been seen recently, but the fallout from their disastrous friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is still causing the York family headaches.

FIFA’s official World Cup footballs costing up to £130 are being made by workers earning as little as £26 a week.

A women’s rights activist and frequent guest on Afghan radio programs, M. was arrested in Kabul in 2025 on the pretext that her hijab was improperly worn.

Keir Starmer will this week launch a last-minute effort to convince voters he is on their side as he persists in his campaign ahead of challenging local election results.

King Charles has concluded his whirlwind tour of the United States, during which he and Queen Camilla attended a series of events in Washington DC, Virginia, and New York over four days.