A Boston appeals court revived Mexico's US$10 billion lawsuit against the U.S. arms industry on Monday, allowing the country to continue trying to hold gun producers responsible for facilitating the trafficking of their products to Mexico, thereby supplying drug cartels and other organized crime groups with weapons.

The Azerbaijani government has detained 10 journalists since November, accusing them of offenses such as smuggling foreign currency, hooliganism, or building a house without a permit. International press freedom watchdogs have deemed these charges "fabricated" and part of Baku's ongoing crackdown on media freedom.

European Union decision-makers approved restrictive measures against six individuals and five entities who have been supporting and profiting from the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

Vietnamese criminologists, investigators, judges, and prosecutors gathered last week to learn how to better combat cybercrime, which is on the rise in the country and might have globally achieved a market value in excess of the illicit drug economy.

A German national was arraigned Friday in U.S. federal court on securities fraud charges that implicate him as the head of a multi-million dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.

An environmental activist from Yemen filed a lawsuit against two oil companies at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in The Hague, Netherlands, claiming that their pollution has caused diseases among the population and that they should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Amnesty International has urged European authorities to immediately stop transferring refugees and asylum seekers from the North Caucasus back to Russia, as it directly exposes them to the risk of being recruited for the conflict in Ukraine.

An American man on the run has been charged with 11 counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering for allegedly defrauding investors of millions in a Ponzi scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.

The U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged SAP, a multinational software company, with violating  the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing government officials at least in seven countries including  South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Indonesia, and Azerbaijan.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Wednesday sanctioned a former Guatemalan official for allegedly exploiting his country’s mining sector through widespread bribery and corruption.