Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) dismantled an alleged football betting syndicate, arresting seven suspects including three current athletes and a former Premier League player, according to the BBC.
Former UBS banker Raoul Weil has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face charges of tax evasion after more than five weeks in an Italian jail, according to Reuters.
US Army Captain Brittany Ray spent a year in Afghanistan embedded with hundreds of Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP). After months of training, the AUP officers were shaping up into a competent paramilitary force.
The presidents of Armenia and Russia today visited the Russian 102nd military base in the northern Armenian town of Gyumri.
Photos: Sona Simonyan
Yerevan’s Hraparak newspaper says that one of its reporters, Vardan Minasyan, was beaten while in police custody today while covering anti-Putin street protests.
Bosnian authorities have sentenced gang kingpin Zijad Turković to 40 years in jail for running a Bosnian gang that committed several murders and engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering.
The muck-racking Bulgarian website BIVOl (Bull), which covers corruption and governance issues in the Balkans, has issued the following statement regarding censorship of a video at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
Scuffles broke out as police prevented peaceful anti-Putin protestors from marching from Republic Square to Sakharov Square via Nalbandyan Street.
Opposition MPs expressed concern over the detainment today in Yerevan of a number of activists protesting the arrival of Russian President Putin.
Minutes ago, a police van entered Yerevan’s Liberty Square broadcasting a warning to anti-Putin demonstrators not to go ahead with their planned march through Yerevan since it was “illegal”.
Thousands of citizens are expected to protest the official state visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Armenia, which will be taking place on December 2nd, 2013. Armenians are protesting their government’s September 3rd decision to join the Russian-led Customs Union and pull back from the EU Association Agreement, which was announced in light of intense Russian pressure and economic blackmail.
Several activists were arrested early this morning for putting up large signs around the city in anticipation of Vladimir Putin's visit to Armenia today. This one reads "Freedom from Serjik-ner" - referring to Armenian President Serj Sargsyan and his ruling coalition.
Early this morning, Yerevan police visited the home of Narek Samsonyan, president of the Civic Consciousness NGO, claiming that they had received warnings that Samsonyan was planning “violent” actions to protest the arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Armenia.
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