In an effort to avoid being seen as suppressing press freedom, a French firm specializing in economic intelligence and internet influence strategy has decided to suspend legal proceedings against several French media outlets. These legal actions were classified as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).

Since law enforcement cracked the encrypted EncroChat phones three years ago, police around the world have arrested 6,558 organized crime suspects and seized cash and assets worth nearly a billion dollars, according to Europol.

In a joint operation, police in several countries have arrested 256 glass eel smugglers and seized 25 tonnes of trafficked live eels worth 13 million euros (US$16.48 million), according to a Europol statement issued on Thursday.

The Nigerian authorities have announced the arrest of a man who scammed a Spanish woman out of millions of euros through internet fraud, using multiple aliases.

The United States government announced on Tuesday new sanctions against four companies and one individual due to their alleged links to the notorious Russian mercenary group PMC Wagner and its founder and owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Police arrested 43 members of the Italian 'Ndrangheta criminal gang on Tuesday for a variety of crimes, including bribing local officials, election manipulation, murder, assault, extortion, fraud, money laundering, and other offenses.

Spanish authorities have arrested two men and investigated a third after identifying them as the ones who had brought a so-called "drug mule" to a hospital in April and abandoned him there. The young man had swallowed 93 capsules containing pure cocaine and died after two of them burst.

U.K. government officials asked Queen Elizabeth II to block the appointment of Russian-born British businessman Evgeny Lebedev to parliament’s upper chamber over concerns his father’s ties to the Kremlin posed a national security threat, a documentary has claimed.

On Nov. 2, 2020, Kujtim Fejzulai committed the first jihadist attack in Austria’s history, killing four people and injuring 23 others in a shooting rampage in the center of Vienna.

Yevgeniy Prigozhin has landed in Belarus on Tuesday, according to President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the Belarusian dictator who mediated between the leader of the Wagner Group and Russian President Vladimir Putin.