An international commission investigating crimes in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, warned on Monday that some of the Russian media language might be deemed incitement to genocide.

Southeast Asian countries and China are working together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to tackle cyber scams and human trafficking related to casinos in these regions, the UN said this Tuesday in a new policy report.

Infamous Sicilian Mafia leader Matteo Messina Denaro, who spent 30 years evading capture and was sentenced to life imprisonment, died from cancer Monday, according to Italian magazine L’Internazionale.

Police in Romania detained a local official after they caught him receiving a 250,000 euro bribe from a construction company as a 10% cut from a EU-funded project contract.

The European Commission issued on Monday a so-called “red card” to the Caribbean country Trinidad and Tobago for its lack of cooperation in the fight against illegal fishing, an illicit market estimated to be worth 10-20 billion euros each year worldwide.

Russian authorities have transferred opposition politician and human rights activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to a maximum security prison in Siberia where he is about to serve 25 years for treason and for disseminating fake news about the Russian Army and its actions in Ukraine, one of his lawyers, announced on Sunday.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled Wednesday that Mozambique may proceed with its case against shipbuilder Privinvest and others in a so-called “tuna bond” corruption scandal, with a public trial set to begin in early October.

French authorities detained journalist Ariane Lavrilleux and searched her home in connection with her 2021 investigation that revealed how French intelligence services allegedly helped Egyptian authorities find smugglers operating on the border between Egypt and Libya and kill them.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomed on Monday the decision of a federal judge in Central Mexico to sentence the assassin of Mexican journalist Israel Vázquez Rangel to 27.5 years in prison.

Protests erupted on Tuesday after the National Bank of the Caucasian country of Georgia decided not to apply U.S., EU, or U.K. sanctions related to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine when they target Georgian citizens, unless they have been convicted of a crime by a Georgian court.