Lithuanian authorities are inspecting a company owned by the family of a prominent presidential candidate, after media reports suggesting the firm may have violated European Union sanctions against exports to Belarus.

Bishkek city authorities began on Thursday to notify residents of an upscale settlement that they intend to reclaim 43 hectares of a city park that the previous regime had illegally allocated to influential figures.

Prosecutors in charge of the murder cases of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé Martina Kušnírová resigned after the government dissolved their department that handled politically sensitive cases and transferred the two hundreds of kilometers away from their homes to jobs they have never done before.

A U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization welcomed on Thursday a bill U.S. President Joe Biden signed a day earlier in order to combat the production and trafficking of a potent drug that has been funding the regime and military actions of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

A Miami court sentenced a Colombian designer to 18 months behind bars after she pleaded guilty to smuggling handbags made from the skin of protected alligators and pythons from her homeland.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina detained 22 people, including high-ranking police officers, suspected of being linked to an international drug cartel led by Edin Gačanin, a Bosnia-born man last seen in Dubai and believed to have orchestrated massive cocaine hauls from South America to Europe.

Malta is considering revoking the passport of the son of a Russian former oil executive after the young man was convicted in the U.K. of laundering criminal funds. The 24-year-old began cleaning cash for an organized crime group soon after obtaining EU citizenship through Malta's controversial “golden visa” program, records show.

Kyrgyz authorities have begun blocking access to TikTok, a popular social media platform in the country, as part of a government crackdown on social networks and independent media.

German authorities conducted searches on Thursday as part of an ongoing operation against a group led by two lawyers who helped wealthy foreigners obtain immigration papers illicitly in exchange for thousands of euros.

Cyprus’ Audit Office reported "serious issues" to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) concerning the construction of a natural gas import terminal, a project initially estimated at 500 million euros (US$532 million) and subsidized by the European Union.