Serial child sexual abuse cases in Australian day care centers have spurred a rush to close security gaps that let predators through the door.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2025
Predators 'slip through the cracks' in Australian child care
Analysts say regulations have failed to keep up with the expansion of the sector.
Workers at a coca plantation in Colombia. Experts say the U.S. strikes on narcotics traffickers are having no real impact on Latin America's drug trade.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2025
Are U.S. strikes hurting Latin America's drug trade?
In short, no.
North Korean IT workers have been identified working in Japan, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine, using a strategy to secure employment and remit earnings back to North Korea.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2025
North Korean agents in Japan’s anime industry part of sophisticated sanctions evasion
A cross-border sanctions monitoring effort between Japan and 10 other countries has sounded the alarm on North Korea’s sanctions evasion tactics in a detailed report.
A new cybercrime pact being considered will be an unprecedented move that the United Nations expects will make responses to such crimes quicker and more effective.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 22, 2025
U.N. cybercrime pact to be signed in Hanoi raises hopes and concerns
The agreement is an unprecedented move expected to boost responses to cybercrime, but activists and experts have warned about possible abuses from its vague language.
U.S. Marines come ashore from a landing craft utility during training exercises in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 16.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025
In Trump's drug war, U.S. officials avoid tackling legal status of prisoners
The U.S. government chose not to use the term "prisoners of war" to describe two survivors of an attack last week by the U.S. military.
French police officers stand in front of the Louvre museum in Paris on Sunday after a robbery.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025
French cops may nab Louvre thieves but they're unlikely to recover the loot
Valuable jewels and gold can be quickly broken down into component parts and sold on.
Members of a forensic team inspect a window believed to have been used in what the French Interior Ministry said was a robbery at the Louvre museum during which jewellery was stolen, in Paris on Sunday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 20, 2025
Thieves steal French crown jewels from Louvre in daytime raid
The spectacular heist, one of several to target French museums in recent months, forced the closure of the Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to the Mona Lisa.

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