Sergei MagnitskyA United States bill which would allow authorities to bar corrupt foreign officials and those responsible for human rights abuses from entering the US and using its financial institutions has moved a step closer to possible adoption.

Romanian authorities have seized 333 kilograms of heroin from two trucks they say were headed towards Hungary.

Jailed investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova has won the US National Press Club’s most prestigious press freedom award.

When British police arrested an Albanian drug dealer red-handed he had an unusual cover story up his sleeve.

The Nobel Prize should be given to Sepp Blatter, the embattled head of FIFA who recently announced his resignation in the wake of a major corruption scandal, according to Vladimir Putin.

Croatia's constitutional court has overturned the verdicts for which former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was given an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence for abuse of office, war profiteering and bribery.

Emin MilliAuthorities in Azerbaijani have detained the brother-in-law of activist-turned-journalist Emin Milli.

The cosmodrome site. Image: Roscosmos/FlickrNearly 7.5 billion roubles (US$ 126 million) have been embezzled from the project to build a landmark new space base for Russia, according to the country’s prosecutor general Yury Chaika.

Serik Akhmetov. Image: Uygur2816/WikimediaA former prime minister of Kazakhstan, Serik Akhmetov, attended court in the central city of Karaganda on Monday as his trial began for embezzlement and financial malfeasance, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The head of the Appeals Court in Kosovo, Sali Mekaj, was placed under house arrest yesterday while he is investigated for misuse of authority.