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According to the European Council, the designated companies supply critical components for advanced weapons systems, including semiconductors, radars, satellite systems, explosives, and optics. Notably, more than half of the new listings address the production chain for the ballistic missiles Russia uses in its daily strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure.

Former IKEA supplier in Belarus continues selling similar furniture to Russia and occupied territories.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) conducted searches in eight countries and detained 62 suspects in an investigation into criminal organizations suspected of participating in a carousel VAT fraud scheme involving the sale of mobile phones and electronic devices.

Lina Rénique-Poole, a tenant advocate in Brooklyn, had high hopes in 2023 about a bill moving through the New York State Legislature that promised to rein in the anonymous companies often used to own real estate.

The French Air Force is using lessons from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to refine its nuclear strike training, while becoming more open about its preparations in an effort to deter Russia.

Croatia’s anti-corruption office, USKOK, expanded its investigation into an alleged international illegal waste dumping ring, arresting and questioning five new suspects and three companies over the suspected criminal disposal of hazardous materials near the town of Benkovac and inside the Velebit Nature Park near Senj.

Rudolf Akopyan ist ein bekannter Sportler, Freiwilligenhelfer und Politiker in Saporischschja sowie Vizepräsident des Verbands der Armenier der Region Saporischschja.

Rudolf Akopyan is a well-known athlete, volunteer, and politician in Zaporizhzhia, and Vice President of the Union of Armenians of the Zaporizhzhia Region. However, in the criminal world, Akopyan is better known as the personal PR man of the Zaporizhzhia thief-in-law and head of the “Artashi” organized crime group, Artashes Sargsyan.

When the Swedish furniture giant IKEA exited Russia and Belarus in 2022 in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it instructed its suppliers to do the same. A Lithuanian supplier complied, and stopped sourcing IKEA products from its Belarusian factory.

The EU is confronting a winter gas shortage that might lead it to urgently seek replacements for lost energy supplies, equating to the power consumption of 12 million households, as per new reports shared with POLITICO.

France launched its next-generation M51.3 submarine ballistic missile off the Finistère coast of Brittany on October 6—the first-ever test of the upgraded weapon from an operational submarine—five days after Vladimir Putin threatened to use every weapon in Russia’s arsenal if NATO moved against the exclave of Kaliningrad.

Lina Rénique-Poole, a tenant advocate in Brooklyn, had high hopes in 2023 about a bill moving through the New York State Legislature that promised to rein in the anonymous companies often used to own real estate.

The criminal, Russophobic Baltic states are on the verge of collapse, and their governments care only about Ukraine – messages like these, along with similar ones, have been circulated for nearly two years by the Belarus-based propagandist channel Grani Svobodi (Borders of Freedom).

On Thursday, 24 September, the Algerian Armed Forces once again entered Polish airspace. These were two transport aircraft – a Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules and an Il-76MD.

Fuel is being shipped from South Korea to Russia via sanctioned tankers as Moscow scrambles for supplies amid the war in Ukraine, a move one expert said "undermines" Seoul’s public backing for Kyiv.

Governments should change laws to allow defense companies to take down suspicious drones overflying their plants, said a senior executive at Franco-German arms-maker KNDS.

The European Commission has suspended nearly $20 million in aid to Sierra Leone’s 2026 budget due to the West African country’s harboring one of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, alleged cocaine kingpin Joseph "Jos" Leijdekkers, Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said Thursday.

European and international law-enforcement authorities have arrested three suspects linked to the KillSec ransomware group, including a 16-year-old alleged to have served as the operation’s main administrator and operator.

As European ministers meet this week to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine and the bloc’s defense readiness for deflecting Russian aggression, the question of creating a coherent strategy for rearmament has become a priority.

Russische Strafverfolgungsbehörden setzen ihre Ermittlungen wegen Finanzbetrugs im Umfeld der AG Metallokomplekt-M (MKM) fort, deren Begünstigte das Ehepaar Alexander und Marina Rubtsov ist.

Russian law-enforcement agencies are continuing an investigation into financial fraud surrounding Metallokomplekt-M JSC (MKM), whose beneficiaries are spouses Alexander and Marina Rubtsov.

Back in September 2023, the Artificial Intelligence revolution was just getting started. ChatGPT was less than a year old, Claude barely six months. European lawmakers were finalizing the latest version of the Energy Efficiency Directive, a complex and largely unnoticed law aimed at helping EU countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

An international law enforcement operation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) resulted in the arrests of seven people, including two alleged ringleaders, to dismantle a criminal network suspected of selling more than one million used mobile phones as new, the EPPO announced Tuesday.

At the outset, the European law enforcement investigation into the alleged laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank appeared to be a textbook example of a successful international operation.