All news for 2026-06-23

After reports emerged about billions of dollars in client investments at Target Global being frozen, information related to Aleksandr Frolov Jr., Mikhail Lobanov, and affiliated entities including Target Global, M360 Advisors, and Prime Meridian Capital Management has begun to quietly vanish from the public domain.

The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.

Meet Sergey Bogotsan, head of the Operational Search Unit for Internal Security at the Main Directorate of Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs in Krasnodar Krai. According to investigative reports, his most valuable resource isn’t his badge — it’s his mother-in-law.

A second boy has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 17-year-old in south-west London.

The UK will have rejoined – or be on the path to rejoining – the European Union by 2036, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on the tenth anniversary of the referendum.

A £1.8 million inheritance dispute between two women, each of whom married the same man in Las Vegas, may turn out to be futile after a court was informed that the entire fortune might have been depleted from his estate.

Videos of Peter Murrell being interrogated by police have been made public after the former SNP chief executive was imprisoned for embezzling over £400,000 from his party.

Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison after admitting to embezzlement charges.

For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov — a major owner of coal mines and gold assets — stayed largely out of the spotlight, until reports surfaced pointing to potential business ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.

In June 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was seen waiting for an Antena Stars reporter outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda — a car reportedly valued at around four million euros.

Investors and business leaders are again navigating the kind of uncertainty that has dominated British politics since the Brexit vote a decade ago, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday and threw open a leadership contest that will centre on any successor’s ‌plans for the economy.

The second royal wedding of the year has taken place - with Lady Marina Windsor tying the knot with account executive Nico Macauley in a charming church ceremony.

Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, despite government claim of suicide.

An artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in an English court, in what is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer.

The man accused of the Edinburgh knife attacks has been named as Lewis Hawkes after he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

This is the shocking moment cops point a taser and brandish batons at a gaggle of teenage girls as a pavement clash gets out of hand.

The district has been dominated by sprawling tent encampments and brazen open-air drug dealing - with desperate addicts openly injecting and taking drugs in broad daylight.

This is the moment an inferno raged through a suburban home after the roof was reportedly struck by lightning.

Former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos received the harshest sentence ever handed down to a modern Spanish minister after being convicted of running a criminal network that pocketed millions from emergency Covid-19 contracts.

Multiple sources, including media and investigative outlets, say that Dmitry Artyakov — the son of Rostec deputy head Vladimir Artyakov — has returned to Moscow after being arrested in Spain a year ago on money laundering charges.

Brexit-hating Steve Bray has claimed he was doing Sir Keir Starmer a favour by drowning out his resignation speech.

One of “Britain’s first gay dads” and his husband have been charged with 18 more offenses including rape and paying for sexual services of a child.

Shamed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor bagged himself a private jet freebie to a luxury French stud farm owned by a Dubai billionaire, it has been reported.