Bulgarians were gathered on the streets of Sofia to protest a vote by the country’s Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday long before its outcome was officially announced: that Ivan Geshev had been elected, 20-4, to be the country’s new prosecutor general.

A West African woman claims to have escaped from the Kuwaiti captors she was sold to four years ago and who had kept her locked for months in a Cleveland apartment, according to News 5 Cleveland.

Masked gunmen killed at least 18 and injured hundreds of Iraqis when they opened fire at anti-government protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Tuesday, “in response to demands” made by anti-corruption protesters, saying he had “reached a dead end,” Euronews reported.

The Cypriot government said on Tuesday it will hire three firms to carry out due diligence checks on individuals applying for the country’s citizen-by-investment program, and comb through past naturalizations to make sure they comply with the latest eligibility requirements, Cyprus Mail reported. 

A Moscow court ordered on Monday the foundation of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to pay 88 million Russian rubles (US$1.4 million) to an alleged protege of the Russian President for blaming his company for food poisoning in Moscow schools and kindergartens last year, Kommersant reported.

Thai police have arrested an Australian Hells Angels motorcycle gang member on drug charges, the AP reported Monday.

German police arrested two alleged members of an organized crime group suspected of  trafficking Syrians and is looking for six other suspects, four of which are members of a Lebanese family, according to a release from the prosecutor’s office in Trier. 

In a coordinated operation, police from seven European countries arrested 18 suspects of money laundering and illegal trade and storage of around 670 tonnes of tobacco, Europol announced on Tuesday.

Police found more than 40 skulls, 70 bones and a fetus in a jar during a raid on a suspected drug trafficking hideout in Mexico City on Saturday. The odd find came a few days after 31 cartel member suspects were arrested.