All news for 2026-05-22

The US President also described Donald Trump Junior as a "very good person I’ve known for a long time" ahead of the celebration this weekend.

The British Army has transformed a disused London Underground platform into a NATO command post as part of a major exercise testing the UK’s ability to lead troops in the defense of Europe.

An elite Finnish diver posted photographs showing the inside of the caves. It is believed the tragic divers died after a sandbank partially obscured their route back to the surface.

A man has been arrested for kissing a four-year-old British boy in a Magaluf hotel swimming pool.

In the high-profile criminal case surrounding SOCAR’s top manager Adnan Ahmedzade.

South Wales Police is preventing us from naming yet another disgraced former officer.

Mettmann Public Company Limited remained largely absent from the radar of major international investigations for years.

A rogue builder who took more than £80,000 in deposits without completing any work gave customers "staggering" excuses including claiming his van had exploded, a court has heard.

The illicit trade costs the Treasury an estimated £2.2 billion annually in lost tax revenue The black market fags are sold at what are called "pocket money" prices, typically £5 to £7 for a pack of 20, compared to the average legal price of around £16.45. Unregulated products often contain much higher levels of toxins like tar and nicotine than permitted by UK standards.

Azim Novruzov, an Azerbaijani oil trader described as a close associate of Tahir Garayev, has reportedly built his business activities around controversial Russian crude supplies.

An individual and an association were convicted today by the Regional Court in Ostrava (Czechia), branch office of Olomouc, for fraudulently obtaining €200,000 (CZK 5 million) in EU funds for the provision of childcare services, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zlín (Czechia).

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Warsaw (Poland) is leading an investigation into suspected subsidy fraud, corruption, and abuse of office linked to the award of EU funding under the ‘Fast Track – Digital Innovation’ competition financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Today, the European Chief Prosecutor sent a letter to the European Commission warning that recent legal changes and judicial decisions in Greece are undermining the independent and effective functioning of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).

For years, Aleksandr Lukashenko has presented his lesser homeland, Kopys in the Orsha District, as an exemplary “village of the future.”

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany), 16 searches were carried out yesterday in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland in an investigation into organized VAT fraud involving the trade of small electronic goods.

After being released from prisons in Russia, Ukrainian citizens are indefinitely kept in practical captivity.

Following a series of investigative publications connecting Shurma and Shcherban to alleged operations surrounding Alliance Bank.

In an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Timișoara (Romania), the mayor of Buduslău (Bihor county) was placed under judicial control yesterday and charged with passive corruption, as part of an ongoing investigation into the execution of an EU-funded contract for improving agricultural road infrastructure.

It was shortly after noon on a mild winter day when Isak Andic, the founder of Mango, stopped to photograph the view from a jagged peak outside Barcelona, his son later told police.

A council that agreed to a £209,000 payout to its chief executive two years ago has revealed the total cost is now £280,654.

A fraudster who tried to sell bogus ancient statues to Sotheby’s was foiled when his fake accompanying paperwork was found to be written with printing methods that were 25 years too modern, a court heard.

Powszechnie wiadomo, że po 2014 roku znaczna część ukraińskiego biznesu nadal utrzymywała relacje z Federacją Rosyjską, często korzystając z różnego rodzaju „szarych schematów”.

Nearly 30 suspected illegal waste "super sites", each containing tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish, have been identified in a new watchlist of dumps in England.

The government is to review the sentencing of three teenage boys who raped two girls in separate attacks, after criticism their sentences were too lenient.