The International Criminal Court Thursday deemed a convicted Ugandan warlord liable for more than €52 million (US$56 million) in reparations to his nearly 50,000 victims, who include child soldiers and women subjected to sexual assault.

The more things change, the more they remain the same, according to U.S. prosecutors. Specifically, the United States has moved to renew sanctions  against the notorious Guatemalan drug trafficking organization, the Los Pochos, despite its change in leadership.

A woman whose job it is to help poor people buy their own homes was charged on Wednesday with stealing more than 30 properties from impoverished clients in the Detroit area.

The longest trial in the history of the Netherlands concluded Tuesday when the Amsterdam District Court imposed life sentences on three individuals, including the head of a criminal organization involved in drug trafficking to Europe and underworld killings.

Italian, Latvian, and Lithuanian authorities have joined forces to dismantle a major money laundering operation tied to a Lithuanian financial institution, suspected of laundering around two billion euro (US$2.17 billion) since 2017, Europol said Wednesday.

Italy’s financial authorities arrested five individuals implicated in a value added tax (VAT) fraud scheme that resulted in the theft of 220 million euros (US$323.6 million) in alcohol-related tax revenue, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) reported Tuesday.

When the British petroleum giant Shell PLC announced last month that it would sell off its Nigerian oil interests, locals were left wondering if the deal would undermine efforts to clean up the mess the oil company has left in their homeland, a vast river delta now choked with pollution.

The United Kingdom government has thrown its support behind a bill aimed at combating intimidatory Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) lawsuits, which stifle free speech and enable corrupt elites to silence journalists and critics with baseless legal claims.

In the most recent crackdown on foreign and independent media, which appears to have escalated in anticipation of the upcoming elections in March, Russian officials designated Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – RFE/RL) as an “undesirable organization.”

The United States charged the head of a Japanese crime group who tried to sell plutonium and uranium from Myanmar to undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents. The agents pretended to be buying it on behalf of Iran.