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As sustained heatwaves increase the risk of infectious diseases across Europe, ECDC scales up action and calls for cooperation
The risk of catching some infectious diseases is growing amidst longer, warmer summers across Europe, making close cooperation across borders and sectors vital to predict, prevent, and respond effectively, ECDC said today.
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Indonesia: Environmentalists, Indigenous Leaders Unjustly Prosecuted
Click to expand Image An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed by an industrial logging company during a media interview in Sei Gawing village, Kapuas regency in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan Province, February 12, 2026.…
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Bangladesh: Fair Trial Concerns at Tribunal
Click to expand Image Bangladesh military personnel guard the International Criminal Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 17, 2025. © 2025 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) – Bangladesh authorities are failing to uphold international legal standards at the country’s…
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South Sudan: Abuse of Civilians in Western Equatoria
Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for communities displaced from Nagero County to Bazia, Wau County, South Sudan, November 18, 2025. © 2025 Joe Falzetta South Sudan’s army, opposition forces, and their respective allied militias abused residents and…
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Canadian intelligence flags crypto-to-cash services as ‘knowingly facilitating money laundering,’ document shows
An internal report obtained says that crypto brokers are moving millions while dodging rules to guard against dirty money.
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Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
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Kazakhstan Sentences 27 in $6.4 Million Fake Farm-Loan Scheme
A Kazakh court has sentenced 27 members of an organized crime group to between six and eight years in prison for stealing the equivalent of $6.4 million in public funds through a fraudulent agricultural loan scheme, state news…
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Popular EU Mobile Apps with Security Gaps Lead to Belarus and Russia
Mobile apps that appear to be Lithuanian were developed by a Belarusian company, raising risks that exiled activists could be surveilled by security agents from the authoritarian country.
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UK Freezes $30 million in London Properties Owned by a Man Under Investigation in Singapore Money Laundering Case
Britain's National Crime Agency has frozen 16 luxury apartments in central London acquired by Xu Haika, who is under investigation in Singapore as authorities pursue their largest ever money laundering probe.
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Demanding a ‘15 Percent Cut’: Former Ukrainian Nuclear Official Sent to Trial Over Bribes
Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors have sent a former executive at the state nuclear operator to trial on charges of demanding more than $147,000 in kickbacks from private contractors, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday.The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine alleged…
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