As the World Climate Conference, COP30, is underway in Belem, Brazil, the disastrous consequences of environmental crimes are visible across the Amazon. This highlights an oft-overlooked fact in the fight to combat a warming world: Tackling organized crime is also key to safeguarding the climate. In the Amazon, criminal groups like the Comando Vermelho (CV), […]
Mexican influencer, her family killed in cartel-style hit (Pic credit: X) The bodies of Mexican TikTok influencer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, 32, her husband Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, 36, and their two children — a 13-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl — were found wrapped in plastic inside an abandoned pickup truck in Guadalajara, in what […]
France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases (Photo: AFP) Twenty-five people, including six minors, were charged in Paris over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions of top figures in France’s cryptocurrency world, prosecutors said on Saturday.“Eighteen people have been placed in pre-trial detention, three have requested a deferred hearing, and four have been […]
Turkish nationals appear in Greek court after shooting incident with police in Thessaloniki (Photo: AP) Five Turkish nationals appeared in court in northern Greece on Thursday following a wave of police raids and arrests triggered by a shooting incident reportedly targeting Greek intelligence officers. Three of those arrested were charged and later sentenced to five […]
Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of the infamous Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, plans to plead guilty this summer to sprawling federal drug charges, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. If the plea goes through as planned on July 9 in Chicago, Mr. Guzmán López would become the first of […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) STOCKHOLM: A Swedish prosecutor said on Sunday he had requested that a man suspected of a triple shooting be remanded in custody.Three others arrested in the probe on suspicion of incitement to murder have been released but are still the subject of investigation, prosecutor Andreas Nyberg said.The man to be held in […]
