Greek authorities have arrested members of an Italian smuggling ring on the Aegean island of Skopelos, seizing red coral harvested illegally from the seabed and valued at approximately €800,000. The cargo was destined for Italy. Investigators from Greece’s General Directorate…
Three of world football’s six continental confederations have issued a coordinated statement accusing FIFA president Gianni Infantino of a fundamental failure of integrity, marking a significant escalation in an institutional crisis that has been building for weeks. UEFA, the Asian…
Daniel Kinahan, the 49-year-old Irish national long identified by law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic as a senior figure in transnational organised crime, landed at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, on the outskirts of Dublin, at approximately 7.20pm…
Andy Burnham, recently elevated to Prime Minister, made a series of statements earlier this year that have attracted renewed scrutiny: while serving as Mayor of Greater Manchester, he proposed that local authorities should, under certain conditions, compel private landlords to…
For decades, the islands of Kinmen and the Matsu archipelago have occupied a peculiar position in the geography of unresolved conflict — close enough to the Chinese mainland that their inhabitants can, on a clear day, see its coastline, yet…
A North Korean missile unit is being transferred to Russian territory, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, bringing with it an estimated 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers intended for use against Ukraine. The deployment, if confirmed, would represent a qualitative…
What did SpaceX actually report? SpaceX posted a net loss of $541 million — nine cents per share — for the three months ending in June. That figure sounds large. It is large. But it arrived at roughly half the…
On a quiet morning in a struggling Yorkshire shopping arcade, a twenty-week-old boy named Grayson finally received the polio and diphtheria jabs he should have had twelve weeks earlier. His mother, Lily, had not been swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. She…
Keith Allen was, by all public appearances, a pillar of Birmingham’s cultural life — a conductor, an educator, a man who ran more than a dozen school bands and orchestras across the city. In the 1990s he was known informally…
He did not need his name on a press release to make his position understood. Aleksander Ceferin, the Slovenian lawyer who has led UEFA since 2016, has emerged as the most consequential institutional obstacle to FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s ambition…