Police in the Brazilian state of Pará detained seven suspects believed to be involved in the illegal extraction and sale of Amazon timber, a crime that affects the entire world’s population as deforestation in the Amazon contributes to climate change.

Europe is facing a growing threat from potent synthetic substances, new drug mixtures, and evolving usage patterns, particularly after the Taliban imposed a ban on opium poppy cultivation, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned in its latest report published on Tuesday.

The International Center for Journalists, ICFJ, bestowed its Knight Trailblazer Award 2024 on Rana Sabbagh, senior editor for the MENA region at the OCCRP, for her pioneering role in building a vibrant investigative journalism movement across the Arab world to expose wrongdoing among officials.

Guests of two nightclubs claim Nigerian authorities randomly rounded up anyone they found inside on Saturday, accused them of internet fraud, seized their phones, and beat and humiliated them.

In a contentious case in Russia, a court sent a man behind bars for three years because he insulted an 11-year-old boy who wore a hat with an embroidered letter ‘Z’ which symbolizes support for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. The boy’s father is fighting there.

A violent gang that most likely originated in a Venezuelan prison in 2012 has, in just over a decade, grown into Latin America’s “most disruptive” criminal group and is spreading like cancer throughout the continent. Its tentacles have even reached the United States, according to a CNN documentary released on Sunday.

A Kyrgyz court ordered on Friday that four reporters, who were charged in January with “inciting mass unrest” through their investigative stories about corruption in the Central Asian country, remain in pre-trial detention until August 8, according to their editor, Bolot Temirov.

A workers’ union in Massachusetts received last year an email purportedly from an employee of an investment consulting firm, requesting a payment change. The address looked legitimate and off went US$6.4 million to a fraudulent account.

A Surinamese man, wanted by Interpol for a series of crimes including the smuggling of approximately 450 kg of cocaine by aircraft, was captured last week in São Paulo, Brazilian Federal Police stated.

Moldova detained Tuesday four allegedly corrupt officials tied to an international conspiracy that has allowed criminals to escape Red Notice arrest warrants issued by Interpol.