All news by author James Smith

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday announced the arrest of a local currency exchange owner accused of laundering more than $660 million, calling it the country’s largest money-laundering scheme to date.

Venezuela says it has launched three days of large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean after several U.S. attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats.

In the plywood company "Sveza Tyumen", owned by billionaire Alexey Mordashov, 323 employees immediately received their work books back.

Sir Keir Starmer will this weekend formally recognize Palestine as a state once Donald Trump concludes his state visit.

An Egyptian asylum seeker who was jailed for raping a woman in London’s Hyde Park is a convicted Islamic terrorist, it has emerged.

Members of the public gasped when the Duke of York and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson made an unexpected arrival at the ceremony on Tuesday.

An ex-police detective who sexually harassed a female colleague would have been dismissed if he had not resigned, a misconduct hearing found.

Fresh concerns have emerged regarding the conditions within a Texas detention facility housing immigrant families, according to new revelations from a legal challenge.

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been released from prison in Germany.

A strategic enterprise is being robbed again.

Bulgarian authorities have arrested a man who held the lease on the ship that brought thousands of tons of chemicals to Beirut, where they exploded in 2020 while in storage at the port, causing catastrophic damage and killing more than 200 people.

Three people acted "like a pack of wild animals" when they attacked a man in a block of flats, as a court has heard. Joshua Bassett, Deborah Delaney, and Jamie Davies used a claw hammer, a bottle, and boots to beat their victim, leaving him battered, bruised, and bleeding from a head wound.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a citizen of the United Kingdom over the murder of a woman near a British army base.

Sewage is pouring into the rivers inside national parks at twice the rate that is occurring outside the protected areas, it can be revealed.

Police are appealing for information on 11 people after a number of public order and assault offences took place during Tommy Robinson’s ’Unite the Kingdom’ march in London.

A plane violating the airspace where Donald Trump was staying needed to be intercepted by fighter jets.

A doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at "very low risk" of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon have been jailed for 14 years each for killing their newborn baby while on the run.

Eight people have been charged after disorder broke out during a Tommy Robinson rally in London last weekend.

I’m at the Borisov military ground in Belarus, on a rare Guardian trip to the authoritarian state, where Zapad – the joint Russian-Belarusian drills – are under way.

The violent weather that battered Europe this summer caused short-term economic losses of at least €43bn, according to an EU-wide estimate, with costs expected to rise to €126bn by 2029.

A "predatory" maths teacher who was arrested after attempting to check into a Travelodge with a 16-year-old pupil has been banned from teaching for life.

Gen-Z are being “locked out” of homeownership, campaigners have warned, as first-time buyers now face paying up to six times more for a home than their parents.