A court in Russia’s capital on Monday ruled in favor of state oil giant Rosneft in a high-profile libel case against one of the country’s largest independent media companies.

A Slovak national who tried to bring more than £5 million (US$ 6.3 million) worth of cocaine and heroin into the United Kingdom has received 11 years in prison.

The United States Senate voted on Thursday to pass a new bill expanding the Magnitsky Act to target corrupt officials and human rights abusers from any country in the world, on the same day as Estonia’s parliament passed a similar law.

South Korea’s parliament voted on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a bizarre corruption scandal that sparked massive street protests, leaving the country uncertain over its political future and contemplating reform to a system that has long been in the grip of oligarchs.

A former French junior minister formerly known for efforts to catch tax evaders was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for hiding millions of dollars in offshore accounts, local media reported.

A nearly nine-gigabyte leak containing explicit photographs and videos of more than 160 college-aged women – who had taken the images as guarantees for exorbitant loans – has renewed scrutiny on China’s massive and often unscrupulous world of shadow lenders.

A joint operation between Spanish and Moroccan authorities smashed apart Europe’s “most active” cocaine smuggling operation, resulting in two dozen arrests and the seizure of more than 2.5 tonnes of cocaine at sea, Spain’s interior ministry said Tuesday.

The leader of the main opposition party in The Gambia was released on bail on Monday, along with 18 others, just days after the shock election defeat of the West African country’s long-reigning strongman.

Spanish police announced Monday the arrest of 30 people involved in a transnational group that sold refitted guns from Eastern Europe over the Internet.

South African President Jacob Zuma filed a court motion on Friday to shunt away a critical ombudsman’s report, just days after surviving an attempted no-confidence vote by senior members of his ruling African National Congress (ANC).