Ukrainian authorities say they have dismantled a criminal group that people could hire to carry out revenge attacks or burn down homes of their client’s adversaries in exchange for US$500 to $3,000.

Italian authorities have announced the arrest of 31 suspected members of a group that utilized drones to deliver phones, weapons, or drugs to incarcerated mobsters, including those in maximum-security prisons. The group catered to 15 mafia-style organizations affiliated with or closely linked to the notorious Camorra.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested six people suspected of trafficking counterfeit university diplomas in cooperation with an Italian professor from Sicily who appears to be the mastermind of the scheme.

Several individuals and companies under investigation for criminal activities have used the recently scrapped election funding system to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to political parties, in particular the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s Election Commission revealed.

U.K. parliamentarians as well as civil society activists have questioned the effectiveness of sanctions because of the government’s exemptions granted to sanctioned individuals - some associated with the Russian government - in order to pay for personal expenses some may call lavish.

Colombia's Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of a former Navy employee who allegedly abused his position to help drug cartels ship tonnes of cocaine to Central America and the United States. He is also wanted by a federal court in Florida, which has requested his extradition.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demanded on Friday that Pakistan must unconditionally and immediately release freelance journalist Asad Ali Toor, who is being harassed in retaliation for his journalistic work. The CPJ noted that his detention constitutes "an egregious violation of press freedom."

When two executives from Binance arrived in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, to meet with the government over the role of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country’s foreign exchange crisis, they were carrying only hand luggage, expecting to stay a few days.

U.S. authorities filed charges against a man who trafficked from the U.S. to Hong Kong protected turtles confined in packages falsely labeled as almonds and chocolate chip cookies.

In a tit-for-tat move, Moscow announced on Thursday that it has banned 227 Americans from entering Russia for what the Kremlin believes is their anti-Russian activity.