Former City Councilman Mitchell Englander took cash, casino chips and escorts and then tried covering his tracks.

Kaja Kallas, a former MEP and a daughter of a former EU commissioner, is to become Estonia's first woman prime minister after a coalition deal between her centre-right Reform Party and the left-wing Centre Party Sunday, Estonian news agency ERR said. "Best wishes to the new, gender-balanced, pro-European, reform-minded government!", Dutch MEP Sophie in 't Veld tweeted. A previous, Centre Party-led government coalition recently collapsed in a corruption scandal.

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Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is given a jail term by a Swiss court in a historic corruption case.

Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is given a jail term by a Swiss court in a historic corruption case.

The trial of Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is seen as the biggest corruption case in mining.

Lawyers for former world athletics chief Lamine Diack, who is on trial for corruption, on Thursday protested their client's innocence and said the 87-year-old would die in jail if sentenced to a prison term.