The U.S. is offering up to US$10 million for information on Hezbollah’s financial networks in the West African country of Guinea associated with the activities of two local tycoons of Lebanese origin who were sanctioned by the Treasury in March last year.

The United Nations human rights chief urged authorities in Iran to immediately stop executing people who have been participating in the recent anti-government demonstrations and not use the death sentence to spread fear and silence the protests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma on Monday a draft law that would see Russia withdraw from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (CLCC), a European body dedicated to criminalizing corrupt practices within all of its member states.

A Cypriot investigative journalist accused on Wednesday the police of trying to prevent him from publishing books he wrote about corruption in his country.

U.S. courts across the country sentenced 69 members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang to a total of 418 years behind bars and 216 years of supervised release for crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering.

Dozens died in a wave of violence that engulfed the Mexican city of Culiacán when police last week arrested the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel chief “El Chapo” Guzmán just days ahead of the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden to the country.

Sudan arrested an Eritrean national who is believed to have been running a network responsible for smuggling thousands from East Africa to Europe, often kidnapping, extorting and killing the migrants along the way, Interpol said in a statement on Thursday.

The United States sanctioned Friday Iranian drone manufacturers who have provided Russia with their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which Washington says poses a grave threat to the people of Ukraine.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Belarus on Friday to immediately release human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner Ales Bialiatski from prison and drop all the charges against him.

The crypto exchange platform Coinbase agreed Wednesday to pay US$100 million to settle charges levied by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) after it was found to have violated anti-money-laundering laws and not be up to code in managing its security protocols.