Russia has “systematically relocated” possibly more than 6,000 children from Ukraine to several re-educating and adoption facilities in occupied Crimea and mainland Russia, which could be considered a war crime, the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) warned.

Pro-government lawmakers in Georgia have drafted a bill that would introduce new requirements for organizations that receive funding from abroad, with many experts worried that, if passed, the law could be used to restrict the freedoms of independent media and NGOs.

Italian police arrested a Nigerian woman who is believed to be the ‘Madame’ of a sex trafficking ring that engages in “Ju-Ju” or voodoo rituals in order to indoctrinate its victims into total submission.

The European Union blacklisted Russia, Costa Rica, the British Virgin Islands and the Marshall Islands as tax havens on Tuesday, bringing the total number of blacklisted countries to 16, the Council of the EU said. The new list has already drawn criticism from experts.

Kenyan President William Ruto imposed a curfew and ordered the national army to support police forces in the fight against bandits and cattle rustlers in the borderlands of northwest Kenya amid soaring violence that took more than 100 lives over the past six months.

After serving less than two years of his 11-year sentence for corruption, former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev was released and left on Wednesday to Spain for medical treatment although there are still outstanding charges against him.

Hong Kong Customs reported Monday that it had intercepted a shipment of approximately 42 million illicit cigarettes with an estimated worth of HK$120 million (US$15.3 million) on the open market.

Valentine’s Day may be the most romantic day of the year but it’s also the day most of romance scams take place. Just last year, fraudsters took US$1.3 billion from 70,000 Americans, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

South African authorities have seized a luxurious yacht from Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue after he lost a lawsuit filed by a South African investor who had been arrested at Nguema’s command, local media reported on Sunday.

The U.N. human rights office in Honduras condemned the killing of a prominent peasant defender and his son in the violent province of Colón on Sunday, demanding a "prompt, impartial and exhaustive investigation" into the murder.