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Credit Suisse fined over drugs gang money laundering
Credit Suisse fined over drugs gang money laundering
World
by  AFP

Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, which has been rocked by a series of scandals, was slapped with a $2-million-fine Monday in a money laundering case linked to a Bulgarian cocaine network. Credit Suisse was fined two million Swiss francs ($2.1 million).

Oslo shooting suspect remanded in custody
Oslo shooting suspect remanded in custody
World
by  AFP

The suspect behind a weekend shooting in Oslo that left two dead and 21 wounded was remanded in custody for four weeks on Monday. The 43-year-old is accused of killing two men and wounding 21 other people when he opened fire near a gay bar in central Oslo in the early hours of Saturday morning, amid celebrations linked to the city's Pride festival.

Blood and fears as Russian missile hits flats in east Ukraine city
Blood and fears as Russian missile hits flats in east Ukraine city
World
by  AFP

A man's body still wearing one slipper lay in a courtyard in the centre of Sloviansk in east Ukraine Monday after a morning strike hit apartment blocks in the strategic city. What appeared to be an Uragan missile stuck out of the ground in a courtyard some 100 metres from where Igor's body lay.

Spain advances transgender rights bill
Spain advances transgender rights bill
World
by  AFP

Spain's government advanced a transgender rights bill Monday to present to parliament this summer allowing anyone over 16 to easily change gender on their ID documents. The bill also includes a new section on transgender migrants, who will have the right to change their gender "on documents issued in Spain if they are not guaranteed their rights as transgender people in their country of origin".