A Canadian citizen who allegedly gave voice to the media and propaganda efforts of the Islamic State (ISIS) was charged by U.S. federal prosecutors on Saturday for conspiring to support the terrorist organization’s crimes against humanity.

Assassinations have long been part of criminal and often even political economies in east and the south of Africa, but according to a new report by a Swiss-based independent civil-society organization, they are decreasing now after a long period of rising rates in Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa.

Law enforcement agencies from eight countries in Europe arrested 61 suspects and seized more than four tons of cocaine, as well as money and luxury vehicles during last week’s crackdown on a Balkan drug cartel suspected of running the continent’s largest cocaine trafficking network.

Hours after they were published on Sunday, the Pandora Papers revelations about how part of the globe’s elite has used offshore companies to evade taxes and park undeclared wealth in real estate and other assets have prompted outrage and calls for investigations.

The U.K. authorities sent on Friday a truck driver from Derventa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, behind bars for nine years for trying to smuggle 40 kilograms of cocaine into the country, the National Crime Agency reported.

French courts sentenced former president Nicolas Sarkozy to one year in prison after ruling that he was guilty of illegal campaign financing during his 2012 bid for a second presidential term.

New York prosecutors unsealed an indictment last week, charging six offshore financial services executives and a Swiss financial services company with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. of over US$60 million in taxes.

Spanish authorities coordinated a Europe-wide operation that targeted several transnational organized crime groups and resulted in 330 arrests and dozens of new investigations into drug smuggling and illegal firearms trafficking.

Thousands of fins and other shark parts were intercepted at El Dorado airport in Bogota, the city's Secretary of the Environment, Carolina Urrutia Vásquez, revealed on Twitter, expressing her outrage.

Spanish authorities seized more than 1,200 kilograms of cocaine off the coast of the Canary Islands, an archipelago frequently targeted by transnational crime groups as a launch point for European-bound cocaine shipments because of its geographical position.