Teenage girls are hiring themselves out as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars, keen to prove they are more deadly and ruthless than young men, prosecutors say. "I had a case involving a 15-year ...

Teenage girls are recruiting themselves as contract killers in Sweden’s organized crime wars, with prosecutors reporting cases of 15-year-olds accepting assassination missions through encrypted ...

Local and national criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have turned Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceará into one of the country’s main epicenters of violence. Ceará had the ...

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Cartel extortion is pushing up prices in Mexico — and becoming a political problem President Claudia Sheinbaum can’t ignore.

A new report paints a stark picture of organized crime tightening its hold on Costa Rica. The 2025 Global Organized Crime Index shows our country’s criminality score climbing to 5.90, placing it 58th ...

Crime scene tape cordons off an investigation area, a common practice to maintain the integrity of a legal scene. (Wikimedia) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Federal prosecutors in LA accuse rival Armenian ...

Ecuador has emerged as the most insecure country in Latin America, with its homicide rate surging to an unprecedented 38.8 per 100,000 inhabitants — up sharply from just 6.46 in 2015, according to an ...