Montenegrin Court Sentences Fugitive Kavač Clan Boss to 40 Years in Prison
Using intercepted communications from the encrypted Sky app as evidence, a Montenegrin court handed down a combined 148 years in prison to the Kavač clan…
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Protected Fraud: Georgian Security Chief’s Cousin Gets 12 Years for Call Center Bribes
Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks…
Lab Owner Suspected of $547 Million Medicare Fraud Extradited to The United States
Khalid Satary’s laboratories allegedly used call centers, telemedicine doctors and kickbacks to turn medically unnecessary cancer tests into $547 million in Medicare claims. Court records…
Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks
Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali. Defence Blog and France 24 previously published reports that these drones were…
EU Targets Georgian Oil Refinery Over Russian Crude Processing
The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the…
First person gets new experimental vaccine for Ebola
Ed Hunt, 37 and from the UK, voluteered after seeing news reports of the deadly Ebola outbreak in DR Congo.
UK Freezes $30 million in London Properties Owned by a Man Under Investigation in Singapore Money Laundering Case
Britain’s National Crime Agency has frozen 16 luxury apartments in central London acquired by Xu Haika, who is under investigation in Singapore as authorities pursue…
Wildfires surge across Europe as Spain and France battle major blazes
The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per cent in four years, according to new data from the World Health…
After an Ebola centre was attacked, peacekeepers moved in next door
A new mobile UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has allowed local authorities to continue responding to the fast-moving Ebola…
Middle East: UN warns against wider escalation after Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
As fighting intensifies in the Middle East, the United Nations on Friday warned against further escalation in the US-Iran war and the risks to global…