In the Philippines, one of the world’s deadliest countries for reporters, media groups and press freedom activists called for justice for journalist Percival Mabasa, who was gunned down on Monday night.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) urged Nicaraguan authorities to free 45 political prisoners detained during what has been described as a time of deep social, political, and human rights crisis that erupted in early 2018.

U.S. authorities designated on Monday Fadil Novalić, the prime minister of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two semi-autonomous regions, for his alleged involvement in corruption, as well as “divisive and destabilizing activities in the Western Balkans.”

U.S. socialite diva Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a US$1.26m fine for advertising EthereumMax on her Instagram page, U.S. authorities said on Monday.

An Ecuadorian judge rendered guilty verdicts last week against three people for trafficking protected species from the Galápagos Islands, including the critically endangered giant tortoise.

Venezuela on Saturday has freed seven jailed Americans in exchange for the release of two relatives of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who were convicted of drug trafficking in New York, U.S. officials said.

Swedbank’s former CEO went on trial in Stockholm Tuesday in a high-profile white-collar crime case involving massive money laundering in its Baltic branches.

As war with Russia continues to rage In Ukraine’s east, Kyiv’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is battling corruption in the unoccupied regions of the country.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Tehran to end its crackdown on journalists and release all arrested since the start of anti-government protests that erupted over the death of a 22 year-old woman in morality police custody.

U.S. authorities unsealed Thursday an indictment against Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and three other people for “violating new U.S. sanctions imposed earlier this year in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine.”