Investigative Stories

Published: 18 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Over the past 18 months, tens of millions of people in Russia have been pushed towards a new mobile application that authorities have presented as a home-grown alternative to Telegram and WhatsApp. Known as Max, the violet-blue messaging and payments platform has rapidly expanded into everyday life, raising growing concerns among researchers and users about privacy, surveillance and...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online US Representative Ilhan Omar is introducing legislation that would seek to redirect nearly $140 billion allocated to federal immigration enforcement towards communities, businesses and organisations affected by the Trump administration's intensified immigration operations. The proposed 'Make ICE Pay' Act would target funding designated for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under President Donald...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The intensifying economic pressure imposed by the United States on Cuba is producing an unexpected contest over what could become some of the island's most valuable commercial assets, with investors, political figures, lobbyists and Cuban-American business groups positioning themselves for possible opportunities if Cuba undergoes a major political and economic transition. The developments come as the administration of...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Children receiving treatment in English hospitals are facing a serious shortage of specialist play support, with new figures indicating that the number of health play professionals available to help young patients cope with illness and medical procedures remains far below recommended levels. The findings have renewed concern about how hospitals support children emotionally as well as clinically. Health...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online For Keith Townsend, the death of former Catholic priest Ronald Paquin has brought a complicated mixture of reflection, grief and hope for closure. Townsend, who was abused by Paquin as a child, spent years pursuing justice after learning that the former priest had been released from prison. Paquin died in custody in Maine on 11 September at the...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online An Australia Post worker has been sentenced to prison after using his position to steal dozens of bank cards from secure mail and taking part in a fraud scheme that caused more than $130,000 in losses to customers and financial institutions. Mauro Paul Coluzzi, 57, was sentenced at Sutherland Local Court in Sydney after admitting his role in...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A United Nations fact-finding mission has said there are reasonable grounds to believe that US forces were responsible for two military strikes in Iran in February that killed or injured civilians and damaged civilian facilities. The mission concluded that the attacks on a primary school in Minab and a sports facility in Lamerd were indiscriminate and amounted to...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online More than 125,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since the beginning of September as renewed fighting pushes families from their homes and places additional pressure on communities already struggling with years of conflict and humanitarian hardship. The latest wave of displacement has been particularly severe in and around Taiz, where fighting has spread through rural districts and...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online OpenAI has disclosed six cases of unexpected or concerning behaviour observed in its artificial intelligence models as the company introduces a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting incidents involving what it calls “model misalignment”. The framework, announced on 16 September, is intended to make disclosures more systematic and more frequent. OpenAI said it had previously published...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Access to parks, rivers, woodlands and other natural spaces remains uneven across England, with new research highlighting a significant gap between communities that can easily reach nature and those that cannot. The findings have renewed pressure on the government to move faster on its commitment to ensure people can reach green or blue space within a 15-minute walk...