Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously filed a plea for mercy from the Russian head of state to release the Israeli citizen. Putin, who has met with the mother of the detained woman, has stated that “everything is going to be fine”. Naama Issachar, an Israeli citizen sentenced to jail in Russia, has asked President Putin to pardon her, according... 

Italian police forces have raided a migrant reception center and discovered at least six North African migrants using the center as a base to sell drugs to the community. The raids, named ‘Operation Capolinea’, took place on Wednesday in Licata, a port city in the province of Agrigento. According to a report from Il Giornale, during the raids police arrested six young men – all with North African... 

Head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) Anders Thornberg has told Swedes to get used to the current level of shootings, saying it could remain high for many years to come. Thornberg said that he did not see an end to the current wave of shootings across the country anytime soon, saying “this can continue for five to ten years” in an interview with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. So far this... 

Afghan opium is being processed into high-grade heroin in clandestine Turkish drug labs for distribution in Europe and Russia, Russia’s anti-drug chief has revealed. The trafficking route was exposed after a joint Russian-Afghan anti-drug operation. “The cargo traveled through Badakhshan-Doshi-Bamiyan-Herat, then further through Iran and into Turkey, where the opium was processed in well-equipped... 

A Danish TV host has caused controversy after he laid flowers for dead Copenhagen terrorist Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein before remarking on his Facebook page, “All is forgiven”. Christopher Læssø, a presenter with an African Muslim father for Denmark’s Got Talent, exemplified what many will view as an overly liberal response to the terror attack, commenting, “Nothing forgotten, all is forgiven.” “When... 

Forensic workers stood by the body of a woman lying next to a passenger bus in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Thursday. During its nearly four-year crackdown on major drug trafficking organizations, the Mexican government has repeated the mantra that most of the nearly 30,000 people killed have some association with the illicit trade. But in the span of a week, a devastating...