Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR dished out hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring 10 members of United States Congress and 32 staff members to a conference in Baku, according to an ethics report.
A court in Baku has indefinitely postponed the appeal of jailed journalist Khadija Ismayilova in a defamation case, the Index on Censorship reports.
By Saska Cvetkovska
Macedonia’s interior minister, transport minister, and chief of the Secret Police have all resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal that has rocked the country with protests.
Spanish police working with the European Union police agency (Europol) report that they have dismantled a massive transnational money laundering network which has laundered more than US$ 337 million in the past six years, mostly in countries in southern Europe.
By Igor Spaic
Last week the streets of Skopje erupted with protests that occasionally turned violent as Macedonia’s opposition leader released a stream of incendiary recordings which he claimed showed government cover-ups in two key murder cases.
As many as 8,000 people from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded in the Malacca Strait, the BBC and other news agencies report.
By Michael Mattson
World leaders continue the search for solutions this week to a human trafficking crisis in the Mediterranean.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Baku office has officially closed.
The European Union has suspended €1 billion (US$ 1.13 billion) in funding to Romanian projects, according to an announcement made by Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday.