All news for 2024-08-23

Force ends investigation into bets on 4 July election date and says bar to prove misconduct in public office has not been met

Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) stated that Border Force officers intercepted Bruce Knowles, 55, and Ferhat Gumrukcuoglu, 31, near East Benacre Broads in Suffolk in late June, as they tried to swim away from a rigid-hulled inflatable boat loaded with drugs.

The vaccine is made by BioNTech using the same mRNA technology that underpinned its highly effective COVID jab.

Bayesian superyacht which sank off Italy is an "unsinkable" vessel, Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, said.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) said on August 23 that a group of inmates at a prison in the southwestern region of Volgograd have taken an unspecified number of staff members hostage amid reports that knife-wielding prisoners launched a deadly attack on guards.

Coastguard confirms body of Hannah Lynch, 18, found after four-day search, bringing number of dead to seven