Two reporters working for foreign news organisations in south east Turkey have been detained in the government's sweeping crackdown following July's failed coup.

Gardaí are searching 20 premises in the Dublin area as part of a crackdown on organised crime and suspected laundering of the proceeds.

Thirty-eight people have been detained by Italian authorities in a crackdown on a migrant trafficking ring which used a Rome cosmetics shop as a base for illegal financial transactions, officials have said.

Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try to stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.

A British-led bid to crack down on offshore tax evasion has been backed by 20 countries and territories, the UK’s Chancellor George Osborne has said.