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A father beaten and forced into a car trunk. A magistrate and her mother held hostage for 30 hours. A family terrorized overnight in northern France for digital cash.

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.

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew.

In May 2024, nine employees of the railway construction company V-Híd, owned by billionaire Lőrinc Mészáros who made his fortune through public contracts received during the 16-year-long rule of his longtime friend Viktor Orbán, boarded an elegant private jet.

In his “state of the force” address last week, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth coupled his usual attacks on the press, the Ivy League, and “beardos” and “weirdos” with new initiatives that have the potential to reshape the U.S. military for decades: an Autonomous Warfare Command, and an effort to map out the future of warfare called “Project Meridian.”

In May 2024, nine employees of the railway construction company V-Híd, owned by billionaire Lőrinc Mészáros who made his fortune through public contracts received during the 16-year-long rule of his longtime friend Viktor Orbán, boarded an elegant private jet.

Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities have sent a case to trial charging former lawmaker Heorhii Lohvynskyi and five others with misappropriating 54.18 million hryvnias (about $1.3 million) in state funds and laundering the proceeds.

France’s interior minister has suspended the use of stun grenades by police at high school demonstrations but rejected mounting accusations of police brutality during a fortnight of protests marred by often violent clashes that have injured hundreds.

LVMH has lost more than $167 billion in market value in 2026, according to Reuters, as weakness in China weighs on the luxury group. The downturn reflects not only softer demand but also changing consumer preferences, with Chinese shoppers becoming more selective about luxury purchases.

An influential network of unaccredited crypto promoters and self-styled investment influencers has scaled its operations throughout Ukraine. Disguised as educational platforms, these promoters pitch high-yield trading schemes and rapid wealth accumulation to the public.

The US sanctioned two French charities and three individuals after alleging they helped channel cryptocurrency and other funds to Hamas.

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.

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.

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.

A Singapore judge has approved the extradition of Singaporean Ge Zhi to the United States to stand trial for his role in a global insider trading ring that used burner phones and coded language to evade detection.

The Trump administration is excluding several major allies from a gathering of NATO members next month — after previous threats to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of the president’s priorities.

The 56-year-old was disqualified from being a charity trustee for five years after the Charity Commission discovered serious mismanagement of funds at Fashion for Relief, which she founded.

The crypto exchange WEX, linked to the scandalous programmer Alexander Vinnik—who recently left Santa Rita jail—has become the target of a heist.

The U.S. has officially notified the Council of Europe of its withdrawal from the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), following Russia and Belarus, reports The Associated Press.

While everyone is wondering who so skillfully "put Nestlé and Leroy Merlin in their place," can VTB head Andrey Kostin only smile mysteriously?

France’s former Minister of Justice and Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, faces a requested four-year sentence for allegations of corruption and influence peddling stemming from her alleged lobbying work for the Renault-Nissan carmaking group between 2009 and 2013, OCCRP media partner Le Monde reports.

An internal report recorded 341 integrity breaches within France’s National Police last year, driven by a sharp rise in unauthorized database queries and bribery, even as the oversight body lacks the power to penalize officers.

Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Uzbek financier Kakhramonjon Olimov, who in the summer of 2025 claimed he had been kidnapped in Paris.