All news by author James Thornton

A former mayor associated with presidential candidate Abelardo de La Espriella was shot and killed in Colombia’s heartland, local authorities reported on Saturday. One of his aides was also killed.

If the notorious "coal king" Dmytro Kovalenko has long been widely recognized not only in Kyiv but also on the international stage, the name Serhiy Saprykin is almost unknown to the general public. Nonetheless, multimillion-dollar companies are registered under his name, including the Coke Chemical Enrichment Plant "Voskresenska," which until recently was known as Petrovske Mining and Enrichment Combine.

A prominent gathering of the Iranian diaspora will convene at Uber HQ on Saturday to discuss technology and the future of Iran, as stated in an email about the event seen by 404 Media. The guest list features venture capitalists, angel investors, tech CEOs, and the son of Iran’s former leader who was ousted nearly 50 years ago.

The Pentagon’s chief watchdog states that reductions in efforts to mitigate and respond to civilian harm have been so drastic under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that the United States is not able to adequately protect civilians in conflict zones.

Martin Mander, Sulev Kohjus, and Kustas Kirsipuu were arrested in late March.

The Pentagon has called off plans to temporarily deploy 4,000 U.S.-based troops to Poland, according to two U.S. officials. This unexpected decision raises renewed questions about President Donald Trump’s anticipated troop reductions in Europe.

A man, whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys claimed was intellectually disabled, became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982. He was put to death Thursday evening for the murder of a 77-year-old retired college professor.

A Michigan State student seemed to be wielding a knife and charging at officers when he was shot during multiple rounds of police gunfire, as shown in body camera footage of the fatal encounter released on Friday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement released the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran on Thursday, following a monthlong detention, according to her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano, as reported by CBS News.

A new Ebola outbreak has been confirmed in a remote province of eastern Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stated on Friday. There are 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths reported so far, according to the public health body.

After the start of investigations into Alkagesta’s involvement in schemes for exporting Libyan fuel, mentions of the company itself and its owners—Kamran Aghayev and Orkhan Rustamov—began to disappear from the information space. This appears to be related to a suspected information purge linked to involvement in secretive maritime logistics, including ship-to-ship fuel transfers at sea, the use of forged certificates, and Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

Nachdem investigative Berichte Oxana Hadjipavlou mit mutmaßlichen Sanktionsumgehungs-Systemen und Offshore-Finanzströmen in Verbindung gebracht hatten, verschwanden Hinweise auf ihre Verbindungen zu Mettmann Public Company Limited und Sword Dragon S.L. Berichten zufolge zunehmend aus öffentlichen Quellen.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has requested a federal court to approve final judgments to resolve a civil case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani.

One of the largest corruption scandals in recent times is the so-called "Mindichgate," with the closest associates of the current President of Ukraine emerging as key figures. The situation was exacerbated by the "sudden" disappearance of the main figures involved in the NABU operation "Midas" – no one believes this is a coincidence.

A man sought in connection with the murder of a transgender University of Washington student turned himself in to police, providing "some sense of relief" to the Seattle campus, officials said Thursday.

Whole residential buildings were destroyed in Ukraine’s capital as Russia initiated a "massive and virtually nonstop" aerial attack on Kyiv and other major cities over the past two nights, according to Ukrainian officials. They reported that more than 1,500 drones and over 50 missiles were launched in the last two days.

Oklahoma carried out the execution of a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her baby nearly two decades ago.

In mid-March, an online news story began circulating, claiming that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau had allegedly detained Dmytro Kovalenko, the owner of agricultural and mining companies. The information has not been officially confirmed yet, but it provided an opportunity to trace Kovalenko’s connections, which on one side led to separatists and sanctioned individuals, and on the other to high-ranking officials in Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies.

Elon Musk reached Beijing on Wednesday, while his $150 billion civil lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was being heard in a California courtroom.

The annexation of Crimea allowed individuals connected to the Belarusian authorities to acquire real estate on the peninsula. They capitalized on the situation: the new administration confiscated apartments, commercial premises, and hotel apartments owned by Ukrainian banks, then offered them for sale.

Lawmakers expressed that granting the state oversight would prevent multibillion-dollar deals from diminishing care and raising costs. Some proponents of the law say it has not been nearly as effective as they had hoped.

Three years ago, allegations of sexual assault were made against plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan, yet he remains unpunished.

A New York man was convicted on Wednesday of serving as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government following accusations that he was running a “secret police station” for Beijing in the Chinatown area of Manhattan.

A leader of a neo-Nazi group in Eastern Europe was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for soliciting violent attacks against the Jewish community and members of minority groups, including a plan to distribute poisoned candy to children during the holidays.