News archive of January 2018

Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has shut down a racket that smuggled large quantities of cannabis to Europe hidden in sacks of rice.

An Istanbul court on Jan. 31 gave aggravated life sentences and an additional 329 years in jail to three people in connection to the deadly 2016 bombing in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet area, which killed 12 people.

OPEC member Kuwait plans to spend more than half a trillion dollars by 2040 to boost its oil and gas output and refining capacity, a top executive said on Jan. 31.

The leader of a club studying cryptocurrencies checks a chart for these items after a meeting at a university in Seoul, South Korea.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads in the first presidential poll published since an appeals court upheld his conviction on corruption charges, a decision which is likely to knock him out of contention for the October election.

A total of 12,726 migrants and refugees, hailing form 64 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America and even the Caribbean, were registered at the official processing center on Lesvos last year.

Afghanistan’s intelligence chief visited Pakistan on Jan. 31, officials said, at a time when tension between the neighbors is simmering over accusations that Pakistan offers a safe haven for Taliban militants.

Oxford University professor and government adviser Tariq Ramadan has been detained for questioning months after two women filed rape charges against him, according to a legal source.

GERB and BSP entered a dispute at the beginning of today's plenary session on the study of communism in history textbooks in Bulgaria.

At the trial of former Bosnian Serb prison guard Dusan Vukovic, Belgrade Special Court ordered an expert commission to be set up to determine the cause of death of an inmate he allegedly killed in Bosnia in 1993.