A weekend gun battle between Mexican security forces and dozens of members of a presumed drug cartel left at least 21 people dead, including four policemen and two bystanders, according to authorities and multiple news reports.
Police have charged a third person in connection with a multi-million dollar corruption scheme involving Western Australia's Department of Communities, Australia’s ABC News reported Monday.
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said he will step down next month amid the growing potlicial turmoil surrounding the investigation into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Girls caught up in gangs are trapped in a cycle of threats and violence and are vulnerable to criminal and sexual exploitation, reports the Guardian.
Authorities in Gabon have detained eight people accused of theft and money-laundering, according to media reports on Thursday.
Philippine police have seized hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine - with an estimated street value of US$49 million - hidden inside Chinese tea packets.
Croatian police arrested on Wednesday 23 people, including police officials, suspected of being members of an organized crime group that forged documents. Media reports that the beneficiaries were members of two notorious mafia organizations from Serbia and Montenegro.
A wealthy Ukrainian lawmaker and Olympic show jumper who fled the country after he was accused of corruption three years ago, plans to return in December and face charges of fraud and money laundering, according to Kyiv Post.
It’s an invention normally seen seen in South America, but British and Spanish police say they’ve intercepted a submarine carrying hundred of millions of dollars-worth of cocaine into Europe for the first time ever.
Romania’s fugitive former chief prosecutor lost on Wednesday her final appeal in a corruption case and was sentenced to four years behind bars. However, by the time the verdict was pronounced, Alina Bica, who during the process had fled to Costa Rica, was nowhere to be found.