Efforts to decrease rhino poaching in South Africa have found recent success, as fewer rhinos have been killed this year than in 2018, according to a statement from the Department of Environmental Affairs.

Croatian movie director Dario Jurican announced last week that he has officially changed his name to Milan Bandic - the name of the current mayor of the country’s capital of Zagreb - and that he will run for presidential at elections in December, Croatian News Agency HINA reported.

An Azerbaijani reporter serving a six-year sentence for illegally carrying cash over the border entered a hunger strike on Sunday in protest over how prison staff was treating his lawyer, an activist reported.

Dutch police are searching for the killer of a lawyer who was representing a key witness in a major organized crime case and whose murder has rasied concerns that The Netherlands was becoming a “narco-state.”

Serbian citizens have been paying on average 74 euro (US$81.6) in bribes last year, mostly to health workers, showed a study the Serbian Prevention and Fight Against Corruption Project conducted among 1,000 citizens.

Working together, several European law enforcement authorities dismantled an organized crime ring behind an illegal pay-TV service that offered access to shows and movies at a price significantly lower than that required of legal pay-TV services, Eurojust announced Wednesday.

More than three years after the mysterious death of a 21-year-old man, Bosnia’s State Prosecution Office launched a new investigation after the victim’s family and the public accused the court in Sarajevo of portraying a murder as a simple car accident in order to hide the real perpetrator.

Violating an international arms embargo, companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - also known as the Czechoslovak Group - have knowingly supplied Azerbaijan with weapons, claims an Investigace report that was published this week.

Organized crime groups have over the past decade killed more than 300 people who tried to prevent the deforestation of the Amazon, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday.

With the arrest of 29 suspects, French and Spanish national police brought down an extensive human and drug trafficking ring that often lured minors from migrant facilities and transported them to France, Europol stated in a Tuesday press release.