Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation to President Zelensky and parliament following a corruption scandal involving illegal call centers. His offices were searched days earlier as part of the investigation.
Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, officially launched his presidential candidacy for Brazil's October election at a Liberal Party convention in São Paulo on Saturday. Despite facing political scandals and trailing in polls against incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he received international support from Argentine President Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Spain's former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been placed under criminal investigation by a judge for alleged influence-peddling and other offenses related to a €53 million state bailout of an airline. The US Department of Homeland Security assisted Spanish police in the money-laundering probe that led to the High Court investigation.
