Asia

Azerbaijan intensifies its crackdown on independent media, targeting journalists and activists under contentious charges.

U.S. sanctions Kyrgyz bank with history of corruption, money laundering, and political intrigue.

Italy's Cividale Spa is an initial investor and minority shareholder of BVK, a smelter that supplies Russian forces in...

Chinese prosecutors reveal significant year-on-year increases in fraud, corruption, and cultural relic crimes, highlighting...

Russia targets Komi Daily as a “terrorist organization,” citing alleged separatist links amid growing media suppression.

Moldova arrests former Kyrgyz presidential advisor who had requested political asylum after accusing his president of...

The U.S. has blacklisted more than 180 vessels caught filling the Kremlin’s war chest for its war against Ukraine.

Philippine authorities have charged Huang Zhiyang with human trafficking, sued him for alleged money laundering, and frozen...

Takeshi Ebisawa, a high-ranking Yakuza member, has pleaded guilty in a New York court to trafficking weapons-grade nuclear...

A major donor-funded water plant in the capital of Solomon Islands was supposed to fix a clean water crisis. But people...

This year’s host country for the COP climate conference, an authoritarian petrostate, has long courted members of Britain’s...

Suspected members of a massive Singapore money laundering syndicate snapped up almost $30 million in Dubai properties,...