With the elephant population growing out of control in parts of southern Africa, several countries in the region agreed at a conference to support Zimbabwe’s push for the legalization of the international ivory trade.
Spanish and French fishing vessels were found to have been illegally fishing in the exclusive economic zones of Somalia, India and Mozambique, claims a new report by the Blue Marine Foundation, an NGO dedicated to marine conservation.
At least 23 people were killed during a police raid of a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities assumed members of a gang called Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, were holding a meeting.
A U.K. office in charge of protecting information rights has fined a facial recognition company from the United States for exploiting photos of individuals in the U.K. and elsewhere to construct without their consent a worldwide online database that could potentially be used to monitor people or sold to other companies.
Being a member of a religious minority and someone who does not support Hezbollah, Firas Hamdan was an unlikely man to take office in southern Lebanon’s 111th electoral district.
Colombian and Panamanian authorities have dismantled a drug trafficking ring that used semi-submersible vessels to move tonnes of cocaine from the Pacific Coast to Central and North America.
Cybercriminals are able to “pre-hijack” accounts on popular online platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn before users have even registered to use them, new research reveals.
China’s rosewood imports from Mali, one of its leading rosewood suppliers, have led to the devastation of Malian forests and served as a conduit for ivory smuggling, says a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
The Swiss commodity trading and mining giant Glencore pleaded guilty on Tuesday to multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation and agreed to pay penalties of up to US$1.1 billion following U.S., U.K. and Brazilian corruption allegations.
The reputation of a high-end art dealer now lies in ashes as he was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that garnered him over US$86 million, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported.