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The US Treasury permanently ended beneficial ownership reporting for domestic companies on 11 August 2026 and ordered the deletion of the ownership records it had already collected on US filers, closing the only federal register that ever required anonymo

Russian intelligence and former Wagner operatives are recruiting petty criminals, and jobless men across Europe and Canada to carry out arson and sabotage for a few thousand dollars a job, European security officials say.The Associated Press has traced 14

President Donald Trump left Air Force One through a catering truck at Ankara on 8 July and boarded a smaller military jet, while the press pool and some White House staff travelled on a decoy aircraft that kept the presidential call sign and drew any atta

Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved new Security Service of Ukraine operations against Russia on 4 August, 40 days after authorising a campaign meant to force Russia to end the war, without saying whether that goal was met.Oleksandr Poklad, acting head of the se

A committee of the US House of Representatives has declared the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla as located in "Moroccan territory", the first time a body of the US Congress has cast doubt in writing on Spanish sovereignty over the two North African en

Ukrainians filled Ivan Franko Square in Kyiv on 24 July for a ninth consecutive day of protests demanding President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reinstate Mykhailo Fedorov, the reformist defence minister he dismissed on 15 July.Fedorov, 35, lost the defence portfo

Daniel Siad, the 69-year-old modelling scout named more than 2,000 times in the declassified Jeffrey Epstein records, was found dead at his home in Colombes on the evening of Monday 20 July 2026. Siad is the second French modelling figure tied to the Epst

Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov on 16 July 2026, siding with commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi in a dispute over how to fight Russia, who should sign off on weapons buys and whether a young technocrat could be allowed to

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a whole-of-government campaign on 13 July to dismantle the International Criminal Court, and two days later two US advocacy groups sued to strike down the executive order underpinning it as a violation of the Fi

Twenty-five US senators demanded on 13 July that the Pentagon release its investigation into a 28 February strike that destroyed a school in Minab, Iran and killed scores of children, setting a deadline of 20 July for the department to hand Congress the f