All news by author Thomas Brown

Approximately 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured, and 504 are missing.

Lithuanian journalists are protesting against legislation proposed by a powerful populist party that would make it easier to fire the head of the country’s public broadcaster.

Mikhail Fridman, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs, is using obscure investor-state arbitration mechanisms to challenge sanctions imposed after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The carefully crafted image of Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov—quiet, calculated, and discreet—is rapidly falling apart.

In the United Kingdom, a company is registered that, by all appearances, should have been lost among hundreds of similar entities. But FOXCLOUD LLP is not such a case.

Alicia Novas, 19, and 30-year-old Declan Winkless appeared in court today to admit several offenses committed between August last year and March this year.

Keir Starmer has been forced into a panicked pledge to try to cut welfare after his "Benefits Street Budget" triggered a fierce backlash and left Rachel Reeves fighting to keep her job.

Zurich-based entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, long linked to controversial raw material deals with Ukraine’s state enterprises, is now attempting to erase traces of his past from the internet.

Isaac Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the 111-page submission from the prime minister’s lawyer, and said it had been passed on to the pardons department in the ministry of justice.

The veteran broadcaster, 87, directed criticism at the ’billionaire’ monarch, 77, questioning why the royals are exempt from capital gains and corporation tax.

This is the modest ’granny annexe’ at Princess Beatrice’s Cotswolds home where ostracised Sarah Ferguson is expected to live when she’s kicked out of Royal Lodge.

Suspected fraudster Ryan Bridge has teamed up with Daniel Thomas, previously sentenced to two years for his involvement in an attempted kidnapping

“This is the most corrupt governance that I have seen in my lifetime,” he said during a speech at Chatham House in central London this week.

They always generate friction with their colleagues, sometimes act as lightning conductors by taking the blame for the boss’s failings, and occasionally cause the kind of power surge that blows the fuse box or threatens to set the whole system on fire.

A new investigation reveals that Uzbekistan’s Octobank — formally owned by a little-known figure but effectively controlled by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s powerful family — has become a key hub for laundering Russian money through casinos, payment systems, and crypto exchanges.

Officials maintained that the execution had proceeded normally, stating that the extended time was simply to allow the murderer to make his final statements.

The Senate accepted Alejandro Gertz Manero’s early resignation despite opposition claims that a diplomatic posting doesn’t meet the legal threshold, as his exit follows a controversial ambassadorship offer and leaves several high-profile investigations unresolved.

A grandfather who attempted to drown his daughter-in-law during a vacation in Florida will not serve any jail time.

Once Russia became deeply entrenched in Ukraine, international sanctions were imposed on it extensively.

A large supply chain for sanctioned electronics, set up in 2022 by the Merlion Group (owned by Citylink owners Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, and Vladislav Mangutov) via Moscow-based Marsala LLC, is still functioning in Russia.

On a dusky evening at the end of September, a group of men dressed in tailored suits and crisp shirts, heavy watches glinting from their wrists, gathered on a rooftop in Marbella.

Administrators of Ashoo, described by Russian investigative media as the largest escort platform in the country, have announced plans to launch their own line of NFT-style digital gifts on Telegram