Lebanese security forces seize large cache of weapons and ammunition during a raid on a home in the Al-Abra area of Keserwan targeting a suspected arms trafficker.

Turkish authorities arrest 71 suspects in 11-province organized crime crackdown, Interior Ministry says.

Turkish authorities arrested 71 suspects in operations targeting organized crime groups across 11 provinces, the Interior Ministry said. The Financial Crimes Investigation Board identified account transactions totaling approximately 2.748 billion Turkish lira linked to the suspects.

Russia sentences 22-year-old from Kaliningrad Oblast to 12 years for spying on Baltic Sea ships, distributing leaflets

A 22-year-old from Guryevsk in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of spying for a foreign organization by monitoring ships in the Baltic Sea and distributing recruitment leaflets.

3 men beat Moscow metro passenger, hospitalized. Attackers arrested.

Three men beat a man in the Moscow metro, leaving him with head and body injuries. He was hospitalized and the attackers were arrested.

4 entrepreneurs sentenced to 4-6 yrs for embezzling border defense funds in Belgorod

A court in Belgorod has sentenced four entrepreneurs to prison terms of four to six years for embezzling budget funds during the construction of defensive structures on the border with Ukraine. The defendants, including Vyacheslav Avtonomov, Denis Kornilov, Ivan Novikov, and Sergei Petryakov, were tried under an accelerated procedure, and their appeals for leniency were rejected.