In order to throw a wrench into the Russian war machine’s advances, the United Kingdom, the United States and their European allies imposed a broad range of new sanctions across various sectors, with talks of halting all future oil imports to the EU in the works as well.

An unknown man threatened a prominent Azerbaijani journalist with a knife and ordered her to stop reporting about a controversial murder trial she had been covering.

Violence erupted throughout Colombia over the weekend after the government extradited the head of the notorious drug trafficking organization “Clan del Golfo” to the United States, where he is facing a life sentence.

U.S. authorities have sanctioned a cryptocurrency ‘tumbler’ used by North Korea to launder stolen digital currency, the first such measures to be brought against a virtual currency mixer.

The European Parliament has given Europol greater powers, enabling the Union’s law enforcement agency to deal with new threats that have emerged with the digital age.

In a Europol coordinated operation, Spanish and German police dismantled a money laundering ring that has operated a parallel banking system for criminals, laundering hundreds of millions of drug money, the European Union’s law enforcement agency said in a statement Thursday.

Two Lebanese citizens living in Georgia were extradited to the United States last week to face money laundering charges after being accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars for criminals worldwide, the United States Department of Justice said in a statement.

After the West imposed heavy sanctions against Vladimir Putin and his inner circle over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president decided to strike back and impose sanctions against what he described as “unfriendly countries.”

Illegal gold mining – often led and by organized criminal groups – is having a devastating effect on both ecology and local communities across Latin America, Interpol said in a new analysis published last week.

Tropical rainforests – which are vitally important for carbon storage and biodiversity – are disappearing at a rate of roughly 10 soccer fields a minute, a Global Forest Watch (GFW) report warned.