The corruption trial of Teodorin Obiang, the eldest son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, opens Monday in Paris. Obiang is accused of amassing millions of dollars through “bribes and kickbacks”.
Rio de Janeiro – Around 60 people have been killed in a bloody prison riot sparked by a war between rival drug gangs in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, officials said on Monday, in some of the worst violence in years in Brazil’s overcrowded penitentiary system.
NEW YORK, – The controversial practice in some Caribbean nations of Citizenship By Investment was in the global spotlight Sunday as CBS’ 60 Minutes put the focus on what it called simply: “Passports for Sale.”
All sides agree on two things in this fatal international love triangle: Kyriakos Amiridis, the Greek ambassador to Brazil, is dead, and his wife’s young police-officer lover killed him.
The city of Chicago recorded 762 homicides in 2016 an average of two murders per day, the most killings in the city for two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
A handcuffed 18-year-old man who escaped custody for two hours in upper Manhattan on New Year’s Day had a getaway car a marked NYPD cruiser, police said.
Yasmin Seweid, the Muslim student arrested after falsely claiming that she was attacked by three Trump supporters on a New York City subway train, confessed to investigators that she was, in fact, just out drinking with friends that evening. She reportedly fabricated the story to avoid reprisals from her strictly religious father.
The NYPD is hoping for new leads from the public to help them find the killer of a 30-year-old jogger in Queens.
A Brisbane lawyer has been charged with laundering drug money in an alleged scheme involving her former Hells Angels bikie ex-husband and the son of a former top Queensland anti-corruption official.
Brooklyn, NY – Police in New York City have arrested 35 people linked to the violent Brooklyn-based Hoodstarz street gang following a year-long investigation into the organization’s activities.