Australianauthorities said they have detained 990 suspects, charged more than 2,000, and seized 1.2 tonnes of drugs between September 11 and 15 as part of a massive operation against drug trafficking and organized crime in the country.

The Mexican Navy has announced that it seized more than 45 tonnes of cocaine and methamphetamine in Mexican marine areas, national ports, Mexico City's International Airport, and in states with significant cocaine and methamphetamine production in clandestine laboratories over the past two weeks.

West Africa has become a hotspot for pharmaceutical trafficking, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crimereport, with up to 80% of Burkina Faso and Guinea’s medical products in particular believed to have been smuggled in by criminals.

A Honduran courtruled on Monday to keep a mayor in custody as he faces drug trafficking charges. The court also scheduled his preliminary hearing for Thursday.

Authorities in the United States said that 24 individuals have entered guilty pleas for their involvement in a drug trafficking organization operating within prisons from 2013 to 2021. The operation, known as Prison Empire, has been deemed the largest narcotics conspiracy ever documented within South Carolina's court system.

A Colombian national was handed two 45-yearsentences Tuesday for his crimes as the kingpin of the “Clan Del Golfo” (CGD) cartel, one of Colombia’s most dangerous organizations, which also operates as paramilitary group with the strength of 6,000 members.

Australia’s top criminal intelligence agency suspected Tom Doshi, a leading Albanian businessman and politician with ties to the prime minister, of leading a criminal group in the country that perpetrates immigration fraud, drug trafficking, and money laundering.

The United States sanctioned an additional 10 individuals and entities linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most dangerous drug trafficking organizations and a top offender in the sale of the deadly opioid known as fentanyl.

The United States sanctioned the pro-Russian head of Serbia's State Security and Information Agency (BIA) on Tuesday, accusing him of corruption and actions that "facilitate Russian malign activities in Serbia and the region."

A flood of drugs out of Syria has opened a new phase in the country’s conflict, pitting drug traffickers — with apparent support from Syrian authorities — against security forces in neighboring countries.

The European Union’s law enforcement agency said that its three-year cooperation with law enforcement authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina has resulted in the dismantling of an influential drug trafficking gang and the arrest of 38 suspects in the Balkan country.

In a testament to drug traffickers’ creativity in finding ways to smuggle their product across borders, U.K. Border Force officersseized more than £120 million (US$153.4 million) in cocaine, this time fused within enough charcoal to fill 800 sacks.

A Brazilian suspected of being one of the world’s largest drug lords, accused of shipping over 45 tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe, was extradited from Hungary to Belgium on June 15 to stand trial, Hungarian policesaid Friday.

Australian police on Thursday charged six individuals linked to a multi-billion dollar transnational drug syndicate, with reported seizures from three busts alone totaling AUD$1.7 billion (US$1.17 billion) in methamphetamine.

Federal prosecutors in Fresnosaid Monday that two individuals connected to California gangs have been sentenced to years in prison related to charges of drug sales and unlawful possession of an automatic weapon.

In a joint operation, Spanish and Danish authorities have arrested five individuals, members and aspiring members of a criminal organization linked to the motorbike gang Hell’s Angels for drug trafficking.

European law enforcement agencies have arrested 31 individuals in a joint operation across Italy, Belgium, and Germany, targeting an international drug trafficking network allegedly operated by the 'Ndrangheta criminal clan.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's law enforcement authorities have seized 124 kilograms of cocaine that was concealed in packages of bananas mistakenly delivered to a trade company that had neither ordered the cocaine, nor the bananas.

Spanish authorities have apprehended the leader of a drug trafficking ring responsible for smuggling narcotics from Spain to Europe using helicopters, according to officials.

Italian and Spanish authorities arrested Tuesday33 suspected members of a global money laundering network that operated at the behest of South American cartels and seized almost 20 million euro (US$21.4 million) of their assets.