A program launched a month ago and aimed to protect the critically endangered Hawksbill turtle is already bearing fruit as it has already helped to identify five major poaching hot spots, the environmental watchdog Mongabay reported this on Monday.

Spanish police arrested Friday a suspect in the murder of a prominent Dutch crime reporter, who was shot in the head on the streets of Amsterdam in broad daylight last year.

One year ago, the Pegasus Project unveiled how a program from the Israeli spyware-firm, NSO group, had become the choice tool for corrupt governments, human rights abusers and other bad actors to spy on their own journalists, activists, dissidents and political opponents.

Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of millions of South Africans – says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The European Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO) said on Friday it was investigating three Croatian nationals who are suspected of bribery linked to a US$23.91 million EU-co-financed waste water project.

Paraguay extradited to the United States a man accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for drug traffickers and other businesses, the United States Department of Justice said in a statement. Local media has claimed the man was a member of Hezbollah.

Since they first separated from Ukraine in 2014, a nexus of crime, corruption and rebellion has flourished in the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘People’s Republics’ (DNR and LNR) as well as Russian occupied Crimea, a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) found.

In a joint open letter addressed to Pacific Island leaders, Transparency International called for stronger measures to combat corruption in the region as well as a commitment to regional unity in anti-corruption efforts.

Victims of Beirut’s deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit in Texas which blames a U.K.-based company for the devastation that killed more than 230 people and left 300,000 homeless.

A U.K. parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into dangers associated with crypto assets as the government pushes to turn the country into a global crypto-hub.