A new report from European Union (EU) agencies underscores how extreme drug-related violence is straining local communities and society, while also highlighting how corruption is facilitating drug trafficking and undermining the rule of law.

Two British men have been acquitted of bribing senior Saudi officials to secure and retain military communications contracts worth at least £1.6 billion (US$2.04 billion), after arguing the payments had the approval of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense.

On Wednesday, police in Azerbaijan arrested a dozen journalists and activists amidst the government’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. Seven of those arrested remain in custody a day later.

A suspected drug trafficker was charged Tuesday with the execution and desert burial of two people, including a pregnant woman, whom U.S. prosecutors say were killed to prevent their cooperation in a federal drug trafficking investigation.

Vietnam has arrested three independent voices on anti-state charges, Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday. The human rights watchdog said that the country is cracking down on bloggers, rights campaigners, and activists.

He’s already facing charges for allegedly bribing a former Puerto Rican governor, and his bank is in liquidation following money laundering fines. Now, Julio Herrera Velutini has another legal concern: the state of his confiscated US$23-million art collection.

New warrants have been issued nearly a year after the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued the first arrest warrants against Russian officials, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights Maria Lalova-Belova.

Wildlife “farming”, the term for breeding wild species in controlled environments, has been touted for helping protect both the animals and their often fragile ecosystems.

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Monday for corruption and severe human rights abuses, which include members of his administration facilitating acts of kidnapping and torture.

Amidst growing outrage over the plight of Russia’s political opposition and the untimely death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the Western powers, spearheaded by the European Union, have demanded an international inquiry.