Three years ago today, Corinne Vella received a call that would forever change her family, her life, and even her homeland, the small Mediterranean island of Malta.

During televised remarks that followed a cabinet meeting on the coronavirus pandemic, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly called on the country’s top customs official to simply execute drug smugglers. 

A Montenegrin and a Serbian with ties to a criminal clan were killed last week in an ambush near a villa they had been renting at Halikouna village on the south of the Greek island of Corfu.

Two gunmen killed a Pakistani journalist who had days before his death criticized authorities in the Balochistan province, accusing them of corruption, a Pakistan-based media and development sector watchdogannounced Monday.

Security forces in Russia have detained a regional governor on suspicion of orchestrating the 2005 murder of several entrepreneurs in the far east of the country.

Law enforcement authorities in Mexico have captured a fugitive cartel leader wanted by the US for the 2010 slaying of a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband.

An international human rights watchdog is demanding that Thailand cease military enforcement of its anti-narcotics laws following the torture of two drug dealers, one of whom later died of his injuries.

Two assassins killed on Sunday Colombia’s top prosecutor on the street in the city of Cali, southwest of Bogota, according toColombian Reports. 

The former bodyguard of Malaysia’s ex Prime Minister Najib Razak claims he murdered a Mongolian model thirteen years ago at the behest of his boss,Reuters reported on Tuesday.

OCCRP’s investigative reporting partners in Ukraine have found inconsistencies in the police investigation that led to last week’s detention of three people suspected of having planted the car bomb that murdered journalist Pavel Sheremet in 2016. 

After they arrested her on Saturday for money laundering and fraud, Zimbabwe’s authorities accused on Monday the country’s Second Lady of also trying to murder her husband, according to theBBC.

Police in Ukraine have detained five people suspected of killing Belarusian investigative journalistPavel Sheremet in a car bomb attack in July 2016,Reuters reported.

Chilean photojournalist Albertina Martinez Burgos, covering violence against women during protests, was found dead in Santiago last Thursday, El Comercioreported.

The chief of staff of the Maltese Prime Minister resigned Tuesday after a major suspect in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta two years ago, mentioned his name, theTimes of Malta reported.

A local businessman considered a “person of interest” in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta two years ago was taken into custody Wednesday, theTimes of Malta reported.

Reporting is getting more and more dangerous each year, with a total of 1,350 journalists killed worldwide since 1992, according toCommittee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: Dawn Paley)

A Ukrainian activist was splashed with acid and died in the hospital three months later. OCCRP’s Ukrainian member center has obtained records showing that one of the suspects was communicating with police and prosecutors in the days surrounding the attack.

Jesus Eugenio Ramos Rodriguez has become the second journalist to be murdered in Mexico so far this year, after he was shot while having breakfast on Saturday morning.

Slovakian police arrested Thursday eight people in connection with the brutal murder of a local journalist who was shot dead at close range in his home in February while investigating the infiltration of the Italian mob into his home country.