law

Google fined €500m by French competition authority
Google has been hit with a €500m (£427m) fine by France’s competition authority for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with news organisations over the use of their content. The authority accused Google of not taking an order to do so seriously. G...

Met Police seize record £180m of cryptocurrency in London
The Met Police has seized a record £180m worth of cryptocurrency linked to international money laundering in London. The seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK – beating the pervious record set when the Met confiscated £114m of cryptocurrency ...

Cocaine ‘worth £2m’ found floating off Sussex beach
Packages of cocaine with an estimated street value of £2m have been found floating off an East Sussex beach. The drugs were first discovered in the water off Seaford on Thursday, with several further finds made since. Police remained in the area i...

‘Key suspect’ arrested after President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination
Police in Haiti say they have arrested a doctor they believe is a key suspect in organising last week’s assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old Haitian national, flew into the country on a private j...
