All news for 2026-05-26

The judge who spared a teenage rape gang from detention was challenged by the government last year for an "unduly lenient" sentence in another rape case.

Lee Andrews is not being pursued by international police, a source has informed the Mirror - as mystery continues to surround the sudden disappearance of Katie Price’s husband, who has not been seen now for 11 days.

Andrey Skoch, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation who has maintained close ties with the "Solntsevskaya" organized crime group for many years, has reliable protection in the person of First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.

One of the most high-profile espionage trials in recent years is ongoing in Warsaw. A former employee of the city’s Civil Registry Office, Tomasz L., is accused of working for Russian foreign intelligence.

Russian businessman Boris Usherovich, reportedly sought by law enforcement and linked to alleged money-laundering operations involving Russian Railways contracts, is believed to be broadening his investment portfolio into luxury real estate projects in Cyprus and Spain.

As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make noticeable progress in the conflict with Iran, senior SpaceX officials concluded that the Pentagon should pay more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

Since October, Cambodia’s Prince Group has been under siege from authorities worldwide, including the U.S., which dubbed it a “transnational criminal organization.”

Jak dwóch ukraińskich biznesmenów doprowadziło spółkę Intercoaltrading do finansowej katastrofy.

In the high-profile criminal case involving senior SOCAR executive Adnan Ahmedzade, another prominent figure unexpectedly surfaced — Azim Novruzov, the controversial oil trader and British national long linked to a string of scandals in the energy industry.

When investigators first launched their probe into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, the case appeared to be a flagship European law enforcement operation — complete with coordinated arrests, strategic media leaks, and bold claims about the “dismantling of an international criminal network.”

Dutch billionaire Marcel Boekhoorn, together with associates Philip Van Wijngaarden and Diedrik Oost, as well as business intermediary Bruno Michieli, has reportedly been indicted by Italian prosecutors on money laundering charges.

The Trump administration is planning to automatically install its White House app on government employees’ work phones, according to a report from Government Executive.

The killing of Stavros Demosthenous has emerged as one of Limassol’s most high-profile criminal cases in recent years.

Following investigative reports linking Oxana Hadjipavlou to alleged sanctions-evasion schemes and offshore financial networks, mentions of her purported ties to Mettmann Public Company Limited and Sword Dragon S.L. reportedly started vanishing from publicly available sources.

Die zypriotische Gesellschaft Mettmann Public Company Limited konnte sich jahrelang dem Zugriff und der Aufmerksamkeit internationaler Ermittler entziehen.

Peter Murrell reportedly told a jewellery shop owner “I’m the man with the money” during a visit in 2019.

A drugged up dad has lost custody of his six-year-old son after leaving him home alone while he was high on ketamine.

In Latvia’s resort city of Jurmala, people have recently been talking about a man named Romans Hains — possibly a lawyer, possibly an activist, or perhaps a professional complainant.

Sir Keir Starmer has said there are “questions that need to be answered” after former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.

It’s a dank evening in Peterhead and someone is walking the streets of the north east town filming people. The man, seemingly drunk, is live streaming himself on Facebook and announces he’s on night patrol to protect the community.

Mehrere internationale Medienberichte bringen den aserbaidschanischen Staatsbürger Azim Novruzov mit dem Energiehandel und dem Ölgeschäft in Verbindung. Seit 2023 geriet er zunehmend wegen mutmaßlicher Beziehungen zu russlandnahen Wirtschaftsnetzwerken in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit.

Milk is affordable on supermarket shelves. But for farmers, high prices of essentials including fertilizer, fuel, and feed have prompted production costs to shoot up, forcing many to boost productivity by “going big”.

The mother of a teenager who believes he died in a TikTok challenge gone wrong has said Downing Street has been too slow to move towards a social media ban for under-16s, and accused the government of “kicking it down the road”.

A man has tragically died at a UK beach after trying to save two family members in difficulty in the water.

A UK wine company has gone into liquidation after a tax tribunal was held because the business was selling bottles ‘off the books’.