The Australian Chinese-born journalist, Cheng Lei, has returned to Australia after China released her from nearly three years of detention on spying charges. She was reunited with her two children and her husband.

A former Colombian prosecutor has been convicted for allegedly intercepting conversations of individuals not connected to or involved in criminal proceedings, including his own wife, according to the Attorney General's Office.

A Colombian court has convicted three migrant smugglers who were caught ferrying Russian and Venezuelan nationals on motorboats across the Caribbean Sea, part of a migrant route to the United States.

A Cyprus court ruled on Wednesday to extradite mining entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz to Romania, where he has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with the grandson of the former king and others to corruptly obtain former royal lands worth over US$100 million.

Authorities in the U.K. launched an investigation after a fisherman discovered gym bags filled with hundreds of kilograms of cocaine floating off the shore in the south of England. More bags were later found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Wight.

Authorities arrested 16 suspects during last week's multinational operation that targeted a Balkan-linked organized crime ring trafficking cocaine between Brazil and Europe, according to the European Union law enforcement agency Europol.

The president of Ecuador fired over the weekend two top officials and replaced the head of the police after seven incarcerated suspects in the August assassination of a presidential candidate were killed.

The founder and editor of the English-language outlet NewsClick in India, Prabir Purkayastha, who was arrested last week during a government crackdown on critical media, denied accusations made by prosecutors during a Monday hearing that he was receiving money to spread pro-China propaganda, calling them "bogus."

European Parliamentarians drafted a law on Thursday aimed at criminalizing illegal adoption, forced marriage, and surrogacy for reproductive exploitation, with the goal of protecting human trafficking victims and dismantling criminal networks profiting from this trade.

A day after Croatia arrested four people on suspicion of committing fraud related to European Union subsidies and money laundering, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) initiated an investigation into the four suspects and one company on Thursday.