Mere hours after Prime Minister Imran Khan reached Washington D.C. for a state visit and meeting with President Trump, Pakistan’s most popular private television channel, Geo News, was abruptly blocked, or, in certain regions, moved to a new channel number.
Zimbabwean police detained environment and tourism minister, Prisca Mupfumira, late Thursday after the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) accused her of graft involving the disappearance of US$95 million from the country’s pension fund.
Moscow authorities detained on Saturday more than 1,000 protesters who were demanding free elections while opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalized after being exposed to a substance that resulted in an allergic reaction.
The US Department of Treasury announced last Thursday that they would be placing sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s three stepsons as well as on their Colombian business associates who they allege were involved in a food-aid distribution corruption scheme.
Authorities at the Hanoi International Airport discovered 125 kg of rhino horns encased in plaster being smuggled through the airport, the state-sponsored Vietnam News Agency reported Saturday.
Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking US$5 billion to settle government charges concerning its privacy policy and will strengthen safeguards on user data, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed Wednesday.
Deutsche Bank has flagged suspicious financial transactions in accounts belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the multi-millionaire who was arrested for sex trafficking in New York earlier this month, the New York Times reports.
The luxury lifestyle of Balkan drug traffickers was cut short on Thursday when police arrested 16 members accused of smuggling cocaine via private planes from South America to Europe and beyond.
Since July 17, Kazakh mobile providers have been urging users, particularly in state capital Nur-Sultan, to install security certificates on their Internet devices without telling them that they would also allow web developers access to people’s private conversations.
A Bosnian court ordered a one-month detention for an Indian businessman and two of his associates on Thursday due to his alleged involvement in financial crimes in the country, according to Balkan Insight.