Crime

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Councils across England are spending more than £125 million a year to place some of the country’s most vulnerable children in care settings that are not legally registered, an investigation has found, exposing the scale of a rapidly expanding market created by a severe shortage of suitable accommodation. Analysis of local authority payment records covering the past two...

Published: 08 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. CAGNES-SUR-MER — Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir on the French Riviera early Tuesday, stealing four artworks in a raid that authorities estimate could involve works worth about €9 million. The incident took place at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the painter spent the final years of...

Published: 07 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. British ministers have condemned what they described as intimidating and aggressive behaviour by far-right activists during unrest in Portsmouth, after hundreds of protesters gathered following the arrival of a boat carrying asylum seekers in the city. The confrontation continued into the early hours of Monday as demonstrators attempted to prevent asylum seekers from being transported away for processing....

Published: 07 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Democratic Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton was targeted in an apparent attack during a campaign appearance at the Canfield Fair on Sunday, after an armed suspect allegedly lunged toward her campaign tent and knocked several people to the ground, according to campaign officials and local authorities. Acton was not injured in the incident, but several people were reportedly...

Published: 07 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The United Kingdom’s planned move to restrict trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has been welcomed by United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese as a potentially important change in British policy, but she has warned that the measure will have little meaning unless it is backed by broader and more concrete action. Speaking about the...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Traffic around the Port of Dover in Kent was brought to a standstill on Saturday morning after a large group of people dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocked roads leading into and out of one of the UK's busiest ferry terminals. The disruption began early in the morning, with police attending what authorities described as a public...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis from the collection of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker must be returned to his heir, an Argentine judge has ruled, bringing a decades-long search for the artwork closer to a historic resolution. The painting, Portrait of a Lady, by Italian Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, had been missing for more than...

Published: 05 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The daughter of a British couple who died in devastating wildfires in southern Spain has demanded a full investigation after she discovered what appeared to be human bones and personal belongings inside her parents’ burned-out car weeks after authorities told her that the vehicle had been thoroughly searched. Danielle Gillam-Kirton says the discovery has left her questioning whether...

Published: 03 September 2026.The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A survivor of child sexual abuse has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot used photographs connected to her past abuse to generate new illegal sexual images depicting her. The lawsuit, filed in a US federal court in California last week, accuses xAI of creating and distributing child sexual abuse material...

Published: 31 August 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The devastation in the village of Myla, just outside Kyiv, has left residents confronting not only the consequences of another deadly Russian attack but also difficult questions about why a major ammunition depot was located so close to ordinary homes. A Russian strike on the warehouse site triggered a devastating series of explosions that continued for hours, killing...