With mass anti-corruption protests gripping Lebanon for over a week, the country’s president urged on Thursday citizens to back economic reforms proposed by the prime minister as the "first step" toward saving the country from economic collapse, the Associated Press reported.
A Ukrainian official who was recently named one of the country’s top prosecutors secretly acted as a key go-between in Rudy Giuliani’s backchannel campaign to dig up information in the country that could damage U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s political rivals.
Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have seized about 300 kilograms of cannabis worth about two million euros (US$2.227 millions), and are looking for two people who are linked to the drugs, the State Prosecution Office said.
Dutch police say they are hunting for five alleged members of a Scottish gang they believe are connected to the death of popular crime blogger Martin Kok in 2016.
Serbian police arrested last week an Instagram star and her friend after officers found a significant amount of weapons and ammunition in their apartments in Novi Sad.
The wife of South Korea’s former justice minister has been arrested amid a corruption investigation into the family, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Authorities in the Western Balkans have arrested 10 suspects of an organized crime group that smuggled migrants across borders, Europol announced Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened on Wednesday the first ever Russia-Africa Summit, which gathered dozens of African leaders in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, promising them “no-strings-attached business and protection from Western pressure,” but also from China, RT reported.
Australia’s former border security head will be the first witness called in the country’s inquest into corruption allegations regarding how the agency dealt with a high-profile casino company’s high-roller gamblers.
A U.S. court found the brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty of participating in the smuggling 200,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States while relying on "state-sponsored drug trafficking."