In the wake of the fire that immolated Brazil’s oldest and most important scientific museum, Brazilians are blaming neglect, corruption, and lavish World Cup spending for the destruction of a collection of 20 million artifacts.
The UK will deport a Ghanaian citizen and former UBS trader to his native Ghana, seven years after the man was sentenced for illegal trading that cost the Swiss investment bank some US$2.25 billion.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Anthony Trillanes, an opposition senator and vocal critic of his regime, after revoking amnesty for his involvement in a failed coup 15 years ago.
Two Reuters journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison in Myanmar on Monday, after a court deemed them guilty of violating a law on state secrets for their work in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
US authorities arrested last Thursday more than 20 suspected members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13, for assault, racketeering and drug dealing. The Department of Justice also unsealed two indictments against more gang members, charging them with kidnapping, murder and racketeering.
Nearly US$30 billion of Russian and ex-Soviet money passed through accounts of the troubled Estonian branch of Danske Bank, Financial Times reported.
A massive corruption trial is to kick off on Tuesday, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged bribes, top executives of Sweden's largest telecommunications company and the jet-set daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan.
Seven men were sentenced for participating in an international child pornography production conspiracy The US Justice Department, announced.
A court in the southern port of Karachi granted on Friday interim bail to former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari who is facing a money laundering trial for transferring Rs 35 billion (US$284 million) through three fake bank accounts, media reported.
Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister, who made promises during his campaign to decrease government spending, has twice used a 15-seat government helicopter to go home and back to work.