Colombian authorities said they arrested and charged five people for participating in the assassination of Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor Marcelo Pecci who was shot on a beach while honeymooning with his pregnant wife.

Authorities said that in two unrelated operations, Spanish police recovered the largest amount of synthetic cathinones ever found in Europe and arrested 61 suspected members of a gang that bribed officers to turn a blind eye to drug deliveries to Europe.

Amnesty International called the charges of treason and tax avoidance Belarussian courts are considering against the management and editors of private news agency BelaPAN “bogus” and part of a ”brutal campaign to crush dissent.”

Along with dozens of their customers, two government-owned banks in Iraq have embezzled over 920 billion Iraqi dinars (nearly US$700 million) in public funds, which has caused chaos in the banking system, the country’s anti-corruption commission said in a statement.

After 100 illegal gold miners were killed in a clash apparently triggered by a minor dispute in northern Chad, President of the Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Deby, ordered a disarming operation in the region, according to a statement by the presidential office.

The U.S. Secret Service agent overseeing recovery of fraudulently-obtained pandemic relief funds says collaboration between law enforcement agencies, the private sector and academics represents the best chance of retrieving illicit proceeds laundered through cryptocurrency.

Acting on an international warrant issued by South Africa, police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family which has been accused of state capture.

The Nigerian Army destroyed 40 illegal refineries and arrested 21 people in a continued clampdown against oil theft in the oil-rich Niger Delta Region, the Ministry of Defense said.

Hundreds of thousands of children across Africa face witchcraft accusations and subsequently suffer grievous human rights violations – according to a new report by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), an independent policy research center based in Addis Ababa.

Four members of the violent gang dubbed “the Sevens” were convicted Friday in a racketeering conspiracy wherein they trafficked drugs and prostituted minors out of a boarding house in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.