The United States’ 5th Fleet seized a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman that was smuggling a considerable amount of explosive material from Iran to war-torn Yemen, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs said Tuesday in a statement.

Ghana’s President on Monday dismissed the controversial Harvard Business School-educated Junior Finance Minister after he was implicated in trying to collect bribes from supposed investors.

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on eight more Russian nationals, consisting of high ranking agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and chemical weapon experts, over their alleged involvement in the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

The United States sanctioned Monday a Russian microelectronics company that has facilitated the Kremlin’s military research and development (R&D) sector as Moscow  continues its illegal war against Ukraine.

Two new spyware strains are targeting Uyghurs in China and elsewhere by masquerading as Android apps, designed to track the user’s location and harvest their information, researchers at cybersecurity firm Lookout discovered in a recent threat analysis.

Nearly 200 looted antiquities that were recovered from the collection of a disgraced New York art dealer were returned to Pakistan last week, Manhattan’s District Attorney announced in a statement.

Australian lawmakers have proposed a bill that would force large multinational companies operating in the country to disclose their foreign earnings and tax payments. If passed, the law would be a major hit against the proliferation of the use of tax havens for evading financial requirements in Australia.

A significant amount of Mexican wildlife trade happens on social media and “has a direct and irreversible impact on ecosystems,” says a report published by the Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization protecting endangered species.

The European Parliament’s Inquiry Committee into Pegasus and other spyware met Monday for a hearing on the situation in Germany, after a study revealed that a number of EU countries had been utilizing the infamous Pegasus malware.

According to the latest tabulations, the U.K. has now frozen over £18 billion (US$21.2 billion) in assets belonging to Russian businesses and oligarchs in response to the Kremlin’s ongoing war against Ukraine.