President of Guatemala Otto Pérez has sacked a clutch of senior ministers as a major political crisis deepened over allegations of corruption.

Vladimir PlahotniucAfter analyzing more than 1,000 documents, IP addresses and servers, OCCRP partner RISE Moldova has revealed previously unknown details about a prominent Moldovan politician’s relationship to the media and to a lucrative real estate empire.

Russia’s lower house of parliament has approved a law giving Russian prosecutors the right to blacklist “undesirable” foreign organizations, in a move that critics say aims simply to quash dissent.

Diosdado Cabello. Pic: GlobovisionSeveral top Venezuelan officials, including the National Assembly President, are being investigated by the United States over their alleged role in the country’s growing drugs trade, according to reports.

The European Commission’s attempt to launch a comprehensive strategy to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has apparently failed, as major member states such as France and Spain withdrew their support for the controversial quota system at its heart.

A Russian businessman who collapsed and died in 2012 while jogging near his home may have been killed by a rare poison, a new toxicology test has indicated.

About 30,000 people gathered in front of Skopje's Parliament building last night in support of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's embattled government.

A Romanian court has convicted Regional Development Minister Liviu Dragnea of electoral fraud, making him the latest casualty of Romania’s ongoing crackdown on corruption.

 
Streets in the Macedonian capital Skopje surged with thousands of protestors today as they demanded the resignation of their prime minister in the wake of a wiretapping scandal that has gripped the Balkan nation for the past three months.

A report written using data gathered by murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov claims that 220 Russian soldiers have died fighting in east Ukraine.