The US and UK reaffirmed financial regulatory cooperation on digital assets during a bilateral working group meeting, discussing stablecoin legislation, tokenization, and market structure.
Finland's debt collection authority has confiscated approximately 4 million euro in Russian funds, originally intended for EU cross-border cooperation projects. The funds, transferred before 2022, were seized following a claim by Ukrainian company Naftogaz.
Over 300 million people used drugs globally in the past year, with around 600,000 dying annually from addiction, according to UNODC World Drug Report 2025. An international forum in Samarkand brought together UN, EU and regional partners to address how synthetic drugs, encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies are transforming trafficking patterns, with Central Asia increasingly serving as both transit corridor and consumption market.
