Two journalists in Ukraine say they are on an alleged Russian hit-list but don’t intend to hide, Reuters reported Monday.

One day after the Pope visited a suburb of Rome to tell its inhabitants to speak up against the mafia, three people were arrested for running an extortion racket, ANSA and Repubblica reported Monday.

The third largest bank in Australia and its underwriters Deutsche Bank and Citigroup will face criminal cartel charges for opaque share sales, Reuters reported Friday.

The Moldovan parliament is divided over proposed amendments that would allow wealthy investors to bypass certain requirements in the citizen application process, Balkan Insight reported Friday.

Mariano Rajoy became the first Spanish prime minister to be ousted from office on a vote of no confidence on Friday after being chased by an extensive corruption scandal involving a number of his party members.

The European Commission proposed a new anti-fraud program Wednesday that would provide €181 million to aid EU member states in combating fraud, corruption and other financial irregularities.

A Russian journalist who frequently criticised the Kremlin and was on Tuesday reported to have been killed, shocked the public when he appeared alive at a Wednesday press conference of the Ukrainian state security service.

A prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, Bill Browder, was arrested in Spain under a Russian Interpol warrant on Wednesday but quickly released, according to his Twitter account.

Pakistan's anti-graft authorities recovered on Monday Rs 15 million (US$1.3 million) and a luxurious Toyota Landcruiser from the former head of the Lahore Development Authority, Ahad Cheema, in the eastern city of Lahore.

Wearing black T-shirts and hoods with slogans "#Afgan" and "No Investigations Means No Cooperation," about 30 friends and human rights activists demonstrated in front of the former Parliament building on the first anniversary of the day Afgan Mukhtarli disappeared from the streets of Tbilisi.