Protest in front of the Parliament in Sofia, Bulgaria on July 15, 2020. Photo by Veni Kojouharova, used with permission. The evenings in Sofia’s Independence Square have been noisier than…
Read more After three months of anti-government protests in Bulgaria, what’s at stake?
The website of the special department of interpol.nl, which investigates financial frauds, has been hacked. Hackers intercepted the site’s domain name management. Interpol has notified the search engines that are…
Read more Hackers broke into Interpol’s special department website
More than 500,000 euros of funds granted by the European Parliament to two pan-European political groups were misused by their members, the European Commission’s anti-fraud watchdog said on Wednesday. The…
Read more Political groups misused EU funds for ‘unlawful gains’: EU fraud office
An Austrian court on Tuesday slapped jail terms on a father and son for supplying hundreds of illegal weapons to mafiosi from Italy’s feared Camorra. A court in Klagenfurt, Austria,…
Read more Austrian father and son jailed for supplying guns to Italian mafia
A French power couple who dominated politics in a wealthy suburb of Paris for decades were given jail terms Friday for money laundering, sealing their fall from grace after earlier…
Read more Paris power couple given jail terms for money laundering
Italy has reacted angrily to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that it should relax conditions for prisoners serving life sentences, including mafia gangsters and terrorists. The…
Read more European court says Italy’s prison regime for mafiosi and murderers breaches human rights
Spanish court charges five smugglers for illegally trafficking the endangered European eel. The Spanish National Court has prosecuted five people for breaching CITES and EU legislation by trying to smuggle…
Read more Endangered eel trafficking
As the investigative journalist’s editor, I know how incredible his release was. Now there’s a chance the truth will be exposed. As of last Saturday, Ivan Golunov is officially the…
Read more Russian officials tried to frame Ivan Golunov. Instead they made him a hero
Rising emissions and air pollution levels threaten global public health, the World Health Organisation has warned. Air pollution and climate change are considered to be the greatest environmental risks to…
Read more Climate change is a public health crisis