Bulgaria’s National Assembly has shot down a piece of legislation that would help fight corruption at the country’s highest level upon a first reading of the bill.

Albanian police have arrested a member of Parliament suspected of opening fire with a pistol and injuring one of his constituents, during a brawl over fishing rights to a local lagoon.

Two men, suspected by Bosnian prosecutors of international drug trafficking, pleaded not guilty in court on Friday.

The mayor of the Romanian capital Bucharest was arrested at his home on Saturday on suspicion of taking bribes from firms that won contracts with the city.

Turkish authorities have arrested four people they suspect of being human traffickers responsible for the deaths of at least 12 Syrian refugees who drowned as their two boats sank on Wednesday.

A Moscow court has ordered four Russian companies to pay 1.7 million rubles (US$ 25,178) in damages to the California-based Apple Corporation for illegal use of the Apple trademark and trading in counterfeit products.

Bosnian police detained three people, including a former chief executive, over large-scale fraud at Sarajevo state-owned transport firm GRAS on Tuesday.

Romanian authorities have detained the country's former chief prosecutor for organized crime and the former head of the tax authority, both of whom are suspected of taking bribes from a businessman to sway a property restitution case in his favor.

An incendiary series of leaked tape recordings that appear to show government corruption in Macedonia cannot be used as evidence in court against officials implicated in the recordings, a judge has ruled.

A former Russian nuclear official has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to launder more than US$ 2 million in an elaborate bribery scheme in which contracts were awarded improperly.