Russian authorities said Tuesday they detained a 21-year-old Moldovan national suspected of involvement in last week’s shooting that wounded a senior Russian Defense Ministry officer. According to the Federal Security Service, the suspect acted at the behest of Ukraine in an alleged assassination attempt. The case is described as the latest in a series of attacks targeting personnel and figures linked to the war in Ukraine.

United States federal authorities have arrested a former US Citizenship and Immigration Services officer, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and Adeniyi Akeem Somoye over an alleged multi-year scheme involving illegal payments in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications. According to the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, Ganiyu is a former Senior Immigration Services officer. The arrests were reported by Nigeria's Daily Post.

Two former commanders of Uganda's Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, retired Maj Gen Abel Kandiho and retired Brig Gen Charles Bakahumura, have been arrested. According to military sources cited by The Observer, the pair were detained on Tuesday morning as investigations into alleged production of false intelligence and treachery widen. They were reportedly among 19 individuals named in connection with the probe about three weeks earlier.

A Nairobi court has denied bond to Chen Guang, a 39-year-old Chinese national also known as Alex, who is wanted in Uganda over an alleged fraud exceeding Sh151 million. He will remain in custody in Nairobi while Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions pursues his extradition to Uganda, where he faces 30 counts of forgery and one additional charge, according to Kenya Insights.

Syrian authorities have detained Major-General Mohammed Ali Durgham, a former officer from the Assad era, over his alleged role in violent repression. According to Al Jazeera, Durgham is accused of links to the 1982 Hama massacre, in which government forces killed large numbers of people, as well as the bloody crackdown on protests that erupted in 2011. The arrest comes as Syria's new leadership pursues accountability for abuses committed under the former government.

A 26-year-old transgender woman, Khloe Simmonds, has been jailed in the UK for falsely accusing six men of rape in a series of claims made over seven years, according to the Daily Post. Simmonds was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Monday, September 7, 2026, to seven-and-a-half years in prison after admitting eight counts of perverting the course of justice.