A U.S. federal court found five Latin American drug traffickers guilty on Tuesday for their role in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 760 kilograms of cocaine into Mexico.

Local Mexican authorities have launched an investigation into the murder of journalist Fredid Roman, who amid the bloodiest year for Mexican media workers, was fatally shot on Monday by armed attackers on motorcyles outside his home in Chilpancingo, the capital of the Pacific southern state of Guerrero.

On the second anniversary of the attempted assassination of Kremlin’s most vocal opponent, the EU urged Russian authorities to promptly free opposition leader Alexei Navalny from prison.

Nine members of the Genovese and Bonanno families - two of the five families which have dominated the Sicilian-American mafia La Cosa Nostra in New York City - have been charged with multiple counts of racketeering, illegal gambling, money laundering and other offenses the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.

Experts say that last week’s U.S. Treasury sanctions against top Liberian officials may be a major step but are still unlikely to significantly reduce corruption or undermine the popularity of President George Weah, a former football star brought to power on a promise to fight corruption.

Israeli cyber arms firm NSO Group that produced the infamous Pegasus software, which some repressive regimes have used to spy on dissidents and journalists, has announced on Sunday that co-founder and longtime chief executive Shalev Hulio will be stepping down as part of an internal reorganization.

El Salvador has detained more than 50,000 suspected members of organized crime groups since a state of emergency was declared five months ago, prompting lawmakers to extend it until September 20.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was charged Sunday under the country’s anti-terrorism act for making threatening statements against senior judicial and police officials whom he blamed for torturing his chief of staff.

A hitman for a renowned Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization was sentenced to 40 years in prison following his guilty plea to the murder of three people as part of a  racketeering conspiracy, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.

Switzerland will send US$131 million of corruption money confiscated from the daughter of Uzbekistan’s former president back to her home country, where it will be distributed by the United Nations to fund development projects.