Russia and the United States reaffirmed their commitment to combat drug trafficking when a bilateral Presidential Drug Trafficking Working Group recently met in Moscow, signing framework documents detailing the joint fight against illegal drug trade, prevention measures, ...

German authorities say they have searched around 600 brothels across the country in an effort to track down women who may have been smuggled from West Africa as part of an international human trafficking ring. The Federal Criminal Police ...

Four men have denied murdering the influential Croatian journalist, Ivo Pukanic, in 2008, at the start of their trial in the capital, Zagreb. The four pleaded not guilty. Two others are being tried in their absence. The editor of ...

Somali pirates have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, taking its crew of 17 Romanians and Libyans hostage. The MV Rim was seized outside the internationally recommended transit corridor patrolled by the anti-piracy naval coalition, the European Union Naval ...

The French Police seized 6.9 tons of marijuana last Sunday in the Parisian region, writes the France Soir. According to the newspaper, this seizure, which was one of the biggest ever taking place in French territory, was made possible after “several ...

The sum is equivalent to more than £2.3bn a year, or more than three times the government's official tax and customs revenue, in a country plagued by corruption. Investigators found the cash leaving Afghanistan is ...