In Italy’s southern region of Calabria, a court had to requisition a local call center to make room for 355 defendants, 900 witnesses and 700 lawyers in what will be the largest mafia trial the country has seen in nearly three decades, AFP reported.
The prime minister of Estonia announced his immediate resignation in the early hours of Wednesday following the detention of several suspects with ties to his party as part of a corruption investigation related to real estate development in Tallinn.
A multinational operation led by German authorities dismantled on Monday the world’s largest darknet e-commerce site, “DarkMarket,” where vendors traded all kinds of drugs and sold counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card details, anonymous SIM cards and malware, Europol announced.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro warned last week that because of a lack of trust in the electoral system – which he has repeatedly claimed is vulnerable to fraud – his country could experience a political crisis similar to the one in the United States.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned seven Ukrainians and four Ukrainian entities Monday, that it said were part of a Russian disinformation campaign targeting the 2020 presidential election.
Two Russians were sentenced by a Swedish court on Monday to lengthy prison sentences for attempting to murder one of Chechnya's most popular bloggers with a hammer while he was sleeping.
Deutsche Bank agreed to pay more than US$130 million to resolve an U.S. investigation involving overseas bribery schemes and a conspiracy to manipulate and defraud precious metals markets, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday.
It was a busy weekend for authorities in Southern Spain and Gibraltar, with three separate busts against cannabis smuggling networks in the region seeing more than 24 alleged conspirators arrested and more than 1,700kg of the drug seized.
Three months after unrest swept the country following a vote buying scandal that led to the annulment of elections results, the Kyrgyz people once again went to the polls on Sunday to decide not just on a new president, but also on a controversial new constitution.
A San Francisco-based cyber analytics specialist warned last week that the use of deep fake video and audio technologies could become a major cyber threat to businesses within the next two years.