The Louvre has revealed that it has been working closely with colleagues in Kyiv for months to remove treasured pieces of Ukraine's artistic and cultural heritage from the country to safety.

A group of 15 to 20 men have beaten to death Bangladeshi journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim in what appears to be a retaliation for his reporting about a local politician who allegedly orchestrated the attack, according to The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Brazil's environmental protection agency, Ibama, announced on Monday that it has conducted the largest-ever recorded seizure of shark fins in the world, totaling an astonishing 28.7 tonnes. This seizure represents an estimated death toll of 10,000 sharks, according to the agency.

Libya’s Central Bank in Tripoli failed to account for the delivery of US$4.8 billion worth of local dinar banknotes from a British printing company, according to a leaked financial review, raising questions about where the money went.

Romanian officials charged Andrew Tate, a vocal misogynist and social media celebrity, his brother Tristan, and two other accomplices on Tuesday with rape, human trafficking, and establishing an organized crime gang to sexually exploit women.

In a testament to drug traffickers’ creativity in finding ways to smuggle their product across borders, U.K. Border Force officers seized more than £120 million (US$153.4 million) in cocaine, this time fused within enough charcoal to fill 800 sacks.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost 900 days, could face decades in jail if convicted in the latest trial against him, which began Monday in the Melekhovo penal colony, where he is serving his current 11-and-a-half-year term.

A Brazilian suspected of being one of the world’s largest drug lords, accused of shipping over 45 tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe, was extradited from Hungary to Belgium on June 15 to stand trial, Hungarian police said Friday.

In a statement published on Thursday, the European Parliament called for urgent action against spyware to protect democracy.

The United Kingdom’s tax, payments, and customs authority said Wednesday that the ringleaders of a group that prompted Northern Ireland’s largest ever tax probe have been imprisoned, following the discovery of covertly recorded talks in a tapped accountant’s office.