Several individuals and companies under investigation for criminal activities have used the recently scrapped election funding system to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to political parties, in particular the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s Election Commission revealed.

U.K. parliamentarians as well as civil society activists have questioned the effectiveness of sanctions because of the government’s exemptions granted to sanctioned individuals - some associated with the Russian government - in order to pay for personal expenses some may call lavish.

Colombia's Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of a former Navy employee who allegedly abused his position to help drug cartels ship tonnes of cocaine to Central America and the United States. He is also wanted by a federal court in Florida, which has requested his extradition.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demanded on Friday that Pakistan must unconditionally and immediately release freelance journalist Asad Ali Toor, who is being harassed in retaliation for his journalistic work. The CPJ noted that his detention constitutes "an egregious violation of press freedom."

When two executives from Binance arrived in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, to meet with the government over the role of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country’s foreign exchange crisis, they were carrying only hand luggage, expecting to stay a few days.

U.S. authorities filed charges against a man who trafficked from the U.S. to Hong Kong protected turtles confined in packages falsely labeled as almonds and chocolate chip cookies.

In a tit-for-tat move, Moscow announced on Thursday that it has banned 227 Americans from entering Russia for what the Kremlin believes is their anti-Russian activity.

Two Americans pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit aviation parts that misled buyers into thinking that they were airworthy, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida reported Tuesday.

A French court last month indicted the nephew of Riad Salame, Lebanon’s disgraced former central bank governor, as part of a wider money laundering probe into Salame and his associates, a French judicial source on Thursday told OCCRP.

In a letter addressed to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a global human rights watchdog urged the country's newly elected government to prioritize human rights.