German prosecutors are investigating possible bribery related to the construction of a pipeline that pumps gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, the German magazine Stern reported Wednesday.
Albanian parliament rejected on Wednesday the prosecutors' request to arrest one of their peer and former Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri, who is accused of being linked to a drug trafficking ring.
The US District Court in Philadelphia sentenced on Tuesday the former District Attorney R. Seth Williams to five years in federal prison for accepting bribes from benefactors in return for favors, reported Reuters.
Italy urged on Tuesday Malta to escalate its crackdown on organized crime while Italian prosecutors are investigating possible links a multi million-dollar fuel-smuggling network and the recent killing of the anti-corruption journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
A man burst into the Russia's top liberal talk-radio station, Ekho Moskvy, in the center of Moscow on Monday and stabbed a prominent journalist in the throat, rekindling the debate on freedom of press in the country.
Czech President Milos Zeman proudly got his piece in the Donald Trump popularized “war on the media” by waving a toy assault rifle inscribed with the Czech for “at journalists” at a news conference, reported The Washington Post.
The police report Prosecutor Tamara Ristic received this summer, regarding the source of the money with which Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin bought his Belgrade apartment, did not reveal much.
Reporters who filed complaints against the European Parliament for not revealing how its members were spending their allowances were baffled by the arguments of the defense at last week’s court hearing, one of the plaintiffs told OCCRP Tuesday.
During a crackdown on the illegal import and transport of wildlife in Southern California, authorities said on Friday that they found king cobras smuggled inside potato chip cans, exotic songbirds stashed in luggage and a severely underweight Bengal tiger in a backyard.
Thousands of people gathered Sunday in Malta’s capital, Valletta, to honor and continue the fight of slain investigative journalist and anti-corruption blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, reported The New York Times.