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Easy win for Benjamin Netanyahu predicted in first poll since announcement of snap Israel election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will easily win a snap election set for April 9, according to an opinion poll on Tuesday, the first to be published since the ballot was announced. Netanyahu announced the early election on Monday, appealing directly to voters for a ...
'It won't stop': Rio's militias, once minor players, now control swaths of Brazilian metropolis
The latest scheme works like this: Brazilian paramilitary groups buy boxes of cigarettes in neighboring Paraguay for 14 cents a pack and then smuggle them back home, where prices and taxes are much higher, and sell them for up to $2.15. The cigarettes offer the ...
The Trump that might have been
The strangest and most revealing week of the Trump presidency just took place.
Peruvians strongly back anti-corruption reforms in referendum, exit poll suggests
Peruvians showed strong support in a referendum on Sunday for political and judicial reforms introduced by the new President Martin Vizcarra to target corruption in one of Latin America's most promising economies, according to an exit poll. The proposed reforms were announced in August following ...
Malaysian fugitive Jho Low and four others hit with fresh 1MDB charges
Malaysian police filed fresh criminal charges and issued arrest warrants for fugitive financier Low Taek Jho and four others wanted in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, officials said on Wednesday. Low, popularly known as Jho Low, has been identified by Malaysian ...
Israeli police recommend indicting Netanyahu in corruption case
Israeli police are recommending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in a corruption case involving Israel's telecommunications giant. Police said Sunday they had established an evidentiary foundation to charge Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. The case revolves around ...
In first speech, Mexican President Lopez Obrador vows to stop 'rapacious' elite
Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a "rapacious" elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States. Backed by a gigantic Mexican flag, the ...
Malta police identify suspected masterminds in murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia: report
Investigators have identified a group of at least three Maltese nationals who they believe masterminded the killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia 13 months ago, The Sunday Times of Malta reported on Sunday. It did not reveal their names, but quoted high-ranking officers leading ...
Ukraine arrests lawmaker's ex-aide in deadly acid attack targeting corruption foe
Ukraine on Monday arrested a man suspected of being involved in the deadly acid attack on anti-corruption campaigner Kateryna Gandzyuk. Igor Pavlovsky — a former aide to a ruling party lawmaker — was arrested on Monday morning, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's attorney general said on ...
Probe of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke sent to U.S. prosecutors
The Interior Department's top watchdog has referred an investigation into Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Justice Department, raising the prospect that criminal violations have been uncovered, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The Interior Department's inspector general has been looking into several inquiries involving Zinke, ...
China will expel former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei from a high-profile though largely ceremonial advisory body to parliament, state media reported, after the Chinese government put him under investigation for bribery and other violations. Under President Xi Jinping, China has been engaged in a sweeping ...
Malaysian ex-PM Najib Razak and ally charged in $1.6 billion graft case
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and an ally were Thursday charged with allegedly looting $1.6 billion of public money, the latest accusations against figures from the scandal-plagued old regime. Najib has now been hit with 38 charges since losing power, most of them related ...
