Police in the southeastern African country of Malawi have arrested three suspects in last week’s brutal murder of Talandira Chirwa, a three-year-old girl with albinism, who was stabbed in the neck while sleeping in bed with her grandmother by a man who broke into the house in the middle of the night, local media reported.

A Brazilian tug boat transporting more than four tonnes of cocaine bound for European markets was intercepted off the coast of Sierra Leone by the French Navy on Nov. 30.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and current vice president, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and banned for life from holding public office, after a court found her guilty of awarding public works contracts to a friend.

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner supplies international markets with diamonds sourced from the Central African Republic’s conflict areas, said a new report by the French initiative All Eyes on Wagner in collaboration with Dossier Center, a Kremlin-focused anti-corruption group,  and the investigative network European Investigative Collaborations.

The Swiss-based automation and electrification company ABB agreed to pay $315 million to settle a multinational bribery investigation involving a high ranking official at Eskom, a South African state-owned energy company, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday.

In a multi-country crackdown on illegal wildlife and timber trade, police around the world identified nearly 1,000 suspects in a month-long operation and seized thousands of live animals, animal parts, bushmeat, timber and derivatives such as clothing, beauty products, food items, traditional medicines and handicrafts.

The Swiss commodity trading and mining giant Glencore will pay US$180 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after reaching an agreement with Congolese authorities on allegations of corruption between 2007 and 2018.

A human rights group in Spain says Chinese authorities have set up more than 100 police stations overseas to monitor, harass and in some cases force its nationals abroad, especially dissidents, to return home.

More than 17.5 million euros (US$18.39 million) have been confiscated from “money mules” and nearly 2,500 suspects have been arrested in a worldwide three-month action involving law enforcement from 25 countries.

A Russian oligarch, identified by Russian state media as Mikhail Fridman, was arrested last week by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) at his multi-million-pound London residence on money laundering charges.