Police in Bosnia detained three men believed to be members of one of Montenegro’s two criminal clans known for drug smuggling and for their years-long bloody rivalry that has so far taken more than 170 lives on both sides.
Reporters Without Borders called on the international community to press Chinese authorities to immediately release seven journalists who were arrested for reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan a year ago.
Non-governmental organizations advocating freedom of speech in Nicaragua shuttered their doors last week after the country passed the “Foreign Agents Law” in October, which required organizations receiving international funds to register as foreign agents.
Historically based on exports to the huge U.S. market, the axis of the global cocaine trade has in the last twenty years increasingly tilted towards Europe, argues an investigation published on Tuesday.
The corruption and self-enrichment that define Zimbabwe’s government has led to the formation of cartels across various economic sectors, including mining, energy, transport and agriculture, claims a report released on Tuesday.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the international community to press Chinese authorities to immediately release seven journalists who were arrested for reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan a year ago.
Transparency International revealed on Tuesday that nearly three quarters of the world’s largest defence companies show minimum or no commitment to tackling corruption, wasting this way huge amounts of the nearly US$2 trillion of public money spent only in 2019 on militaries.
Spanish police arrested 38 suspected members of a so-called “Chinese mafia” involved in drug cultivation and trafficking across Europe, Spain’s Guardia Civil said in a statement on Monday.
Brazilian law enforcement expanded investigations on Friday into a criminal group involved in the sale of ecstasy - a drug increasingly present in the region that heralds shifting dynamics in the international drug trade.