Authorities across Europe detained 15 suspects believed to be members of two separate criminal groups involved in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation - one operating between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria, and the other in Romania and Ireland.

The European Union imposed this week sanctions on 25 individuals and eight companies for supporting the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

More than 14 months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the unprecedented response it triggered from the West, law firms in Cyprus may still be offering services to sanctioned oligarchs and now fear they will themselves be targeted by sanctions.

A district court in Bishkek upheld on Thursday the request of Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture to shut down the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Azattyk. The dispute erupted over a video the government did not like.

Czech, Finnish, and Hungarian authorities have dismantled a criminal network suspected of recruiting victims, mostly Czechs, for sexual exploitation in Finland and other Scandinavian countries.

A U.S. court charged a China-based representative of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank with two counts related to laundering illicit crypto proceeds for the benefit of the North Korean nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A New York lawyer pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, engineered to benefit his client, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner and a key player on the battlefields of Ukraine, has offered to mediate between Sudan's warring generals, whose fight for power has pushed the country into what now appears to be a full-blown civil war.

The U.N. has said that insecurity in Haiti has reached “alarming levels” due to gang violence, which has resulted in 70 deaths and 40 injuries between April 14 and 19.

Mexico's naval and customs officers have seized nearly nine tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden in tequila bottles that were ready to be shipped abroad, the Secretariat of the Navy announced.