The European Parliament adopted legislation on Thursday aimed at enhancing the European Union's ability to combat the growing number of cyber attacks, which now cost the world's economy trillions of dollars.

Human Rights Watch criticized the release of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, the first Latin American president to end up in prison for human rights violations, saying the move was an erosion of the rule of law in Peru.

With the help of Europol, Italian police have dismantled an organized crime syndicate and arrested four individuals accused of counterfeiting euro coins.

Law enforcement of Colombia and Brazil teamed up against illegal mining in the Amazon, targeting 19 illegal gold mines – 12 in Colombia and seven in Brazil, the authorities of the two Latin America countries stated Wednesday.

Two weeks after authorities launched a crackdown against independent media, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced on Thursday snap presidential elections for February, triggering speculation that he was eliminating critical voices ahead of the vote.

A joint U.S.-Romanian crackdown against an organized crime group responsible for a multi-million dollar ATM scam revealed that the group is associated with Mexico’s Riviera Maya Gang, who have similarly defrauded more than a billion dollars from its victims.

Lithuania’s interior minister announced on Wednesday her intention to initiate a legislative change allowing the country to revoke the citizenship of naturalized Lithuanians deemed a threat to national security. This move followed revelations that a Russian billionaire utilized his children’s Lithuanian passports to conceal wealth from sanctions.

Financial consultants in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, bordering Romania, have been assisting Romanian businesspeople in committing VAT fraud and, in some instances, embezzling funds from the European Union, of which both countries are members.

Chilean authorities delivered the first three convictions against members of an international gold smuggling network, the so-called Gold Clan (Clan del Oro), accused of trafficking gold from the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon to the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland.

Italian and Spanish authorities have seized more than 260,000 liters of counterfeit extra virgin olive oil and arrested 11 individuals suspected of mixing high-quality oil with low-quality “Lampante oil,” previously used as fuel for oil lamps.