All news for 2026-05-09

Former Lithuanian Premier Gintautas Paluckas has been stripped of parliamentary immunity to face criminal charges that he holds unexplained wealth.

The story of the in absentia arrest of the defendants in the Pin-Up payment schemes case, which was reported back in February 2026, is gaining momentum again — against the backdrop of attempts to remove mentions of this decision from the public space.

Georgian authorities detained several former and current police officers on Thursday in connection with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2024.

Information about the self-immolation of a Kaliningrad resident born in 1988 in protest against the war was first mentioned in a public report by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, which did not disclose the individual’s name.

The career of renowned surgeon Vardan Khachatryan was thrown into controversy after several former patients stepped forward with allegations of harassment and assault in the operating room.

Sarah Ferguson was once in a relationship with rapper P Diddy, it has been claimed. P Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, reportedly first met Sarah Ferguson in New York in 2002.

On the morning of October 17, 2025, all of Cyprus was discussing the assassination in Limassol of one of the alleged leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous.

Scotland has elected its first two transgender MSPs to the Holyrood parliament.