The lawyers of former crime boss Francis Salemme told the US court in Boston that statements made by a man he allegedly murdered were “inadmissible hearsay,” the Boston Globe reported on Monday.
On two occasions last Sunday, unknown attackers shot at the Lahore home of a Pakistani Supreme Court judge who is monitoring the multiple corruption cases against the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Nobody was injured in the two attacks, Punjab provincial authorities said.
A British citizen was arrested in Morocco and extradited to the US for misusing investor funds and misleading investors in entities he controlled, the Department of Justice said Friday.
US prosecutors charged nine suspected members of the Kensington area “TruHittaz” drug trafficking group with 44 counts of conspiring to distribute and selling phencyclidine, also known as PCP or angel dust, and crack cocaine, according to a Department of Justice announcement on Friday.
Tens of thousands gathered in Budapest and other cities in Hungary on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s re-election less than a week before.
A Russian investigative journalist who wrote about mercenaries in Syria has died following a suspicious fall from his fifth-floor balcony, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Sunday.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court clarified in a Friday ruling that its July 2017 decision to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif means he will have to stay away from politics for the rest of his life.
A Denver federal court sentenced a member of the darknet drug-trafficking organization “ItalianMafiaBrussels” to three years in prison for importing controlled substances to the US, according to Wednesday’s US Attorney’s Office press release.
While Monday showed big losses for Russia’s oligarchs targeted by US sanctions, they might have already started recovering by Friday.
Critics of Malaysia’s fake-news law say the new legislation is meant to silence news surrounding the prime minister’s involvement in a US$ 4.5 billion corruption scandal ahead of the elections in May.