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Which US state is least-equipped to fight corruption? Look away, Arizona and...

There are “tremendous shortcomings” in the ethics enforcement regimes of US states, according to the author of a new report by the Coalition for Integrity, an anti-corruption nonprofit. The report...

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Netanyahu’s bid to avoid corruption charges could undermine Israeli democracy

The stakes are high in today’s election for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who could, in a matter of weeks, be indicted for bribery, fraud, and breach of public trust. Scrape together a...

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Some Big Four partners get decade-high UK pay despite falling audit standards

The British arms of the Big Four accountancy companies are facing considerable scrutiny amid declines in audit standards and calls by a Parliamentary committee to break the firms up. Their executives,...

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is also a former TV star facing scandal

Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise to the Ukrainian presidency via TV stardom was perhaps even more postmodern than Donald Trump’s triumph in the US. Trump rose to wider fame through a book he didn’t write and...

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One of the world’s most notorious tax havens is opening its books

In 2015, the Cayman Islands’ government analyzed the possibility that its favorable laws were being used to launder money. The British territory found, to little surprise, that it “faces internal and...

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Whistleblowers say US audit watchdog is not doing its job. That should worry...

America’s accounting watchdog is not exactly a paragon of effectiveness. Set up in 2003 to oversee the audit profession after collusion led to the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Public Company...

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Top US think tank criticized for taking $12 million from a Russia-tied oligarch

A group of 56 former US national security officials, academics, and activists have hit out at vaunted think tank Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for accepting $12 million from Len Blavatnik, a...

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Wall Street’s watchdog wants to weaken its own whistleblower program, critics...

Wall Street’s top watchdog loves to tout the success and importance of its whistleblower program. “These awards show how critically important whistleblowers can be to the agency’s investigation and...

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Lawmakers move to make it much harder to launder money in the US

After a decade foundering in obscurity, a bill looking to dent America’s status as the world’s biggest tax haven today passed a vote in the House by a 249 to 173 margin. The bill would force the owners...

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Thomas the Tank Engine was allegedly the engine for an accounting cover-up

Beloved children’s TV show Thomas & Friends was at the center of a cover-up by toy company Mattel and its auditor PwC last year, according to a former Mattel executive. In early 2018, Mattel...

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Berliners are trolling Trump by shipping him a 2.7-ton piece of the Berlin Wall

US president Donald Trump will be receiving a special gift from Berlin residents on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—a 2.7-ton section of the wall itself. The stunt is squarely...

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The world’s as divided about Bolivia’s alleged coup as Bolivians themselves

Last weekend, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales stepped down at the “suggestion” of his country’s army, amid mass protests over allegations that the longstanding socialist leader rigged an election. The...

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Russia allegedly meddled in Bolivia’s controversial election

A Russian state company sent around 10 spin doctors to Bolivia beginning in mid-2019 to help the incumbent president Evo Morales win last month’s allegedly rigged election, according to an...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged with bribery and fraud

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been charged with bribery and fraud, according to local media, marking a startling descent for one of the world’s most recognizable leaders. Netanyahu is...

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Top Australian bank faces record fine for 23 million violations and enabling...

Australia’s second biggest bank is reeling after a lawsuit by the country’s financial intelligence unit accused it of 23 million breaches of an anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing law and...

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Mike Bloomberg took a dig at Trump’s taxes while announcing his presidential bid

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg confirmed he is running for the US presidency today, setting up a potential clash of the billionaires with a video that took an unsubtle dig at fellow mogul,...

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Hong Kong just had a peaceful Sunday, thanks to an election

Today, Hong Kong took a break from six months of protests, tear gas, and violent clashes, as millions took part in a local council election normally seen as low-stakes. Early results suggested...

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How China brainwashes ethnic minority Uighurs in its mass detention camps

Over six months in 2017, a group of fields in China’s restive Xinjiang region was turned into a massive, high-security building complex, replete with fences and guard towers. After a year of haranguing...

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The US Defense Department lost $875 million to scams involving shell companies

Between 2010 and 2012, according to the Department of Justice, a US citizen and an Indian resident—acting as contractors for the US Defense Department—took thousands of sensitive files, tried to use...

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Walmart dodged US tax on $2 billion by routing cash through multiple...

Walmart, the world’s biggest company, underpaid US taxes on nearly $2 billion worth of offshore cash, according to whistleblower documents filed by a former Walmart executive to the Internal Revenue...

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HSBC to pay about $200 million for helping rich Americans hide money

HSBC’s Swiss branch became the fourth bank in recent years to settle with the US Justice Department over allegations it concealed vast amounts of American clients’ money in Switzerland, agreeing this...

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Two years into Trump’s tax cut, the results are not promising

Two years ago, US president Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping tax cut that logistics giant FedEx’s CFO once dubbed “a mighty fine Christmas gift.” Backers of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) said...

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To be a better ally, I gave up reading books by men for 2019

Let me start with a confession: I’m a British man in my late 20s, have a literature degree and consider myself a feminist—but until summer 2018, I had never read a Jane Austen novel. Or a Charlotte...

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Oil prices spike after US assassinates Iranian military leader

America’s assassination of Iranian security commander Qasem Soleimani today caused the third Iran-linked spike in oil prices in the space of a year. Brent crude prices climbed as much as 4.6%, to...

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Boeing’s fired CEO keeps $80 million in pay and benefits despite crashes,...

Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s former CEO, left the company with $80.7 million in pay and benefits, after being fired over two aircraft crashes that killed 346 people in total. His compensation dwarfs the...

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Venezuela just hiked its minimum wage 67% but a month of work still cant buy...

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro ordered the eleventh minimum wage hike in 24 months yesterday, boosting the basic salary by 67% to 250,000 bolivars ($3.61) plus a 200,000 “food bonus” as the...

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A NewsCorp employee attacked the “misinformation campaign” of Rupert...

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian outlets have committed all manner of sins in their coverage of the country’s devastating bushfires, critics say. Led by The Australian broadsheet, publications in his News...

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European fashion giants took millions from daughter of former Angolan autocrat

Heavily pregnant and clad in a gold dress embellished with delicate flowers, Africa’s richest woman leaned on a throne and stared soulfully from a palatial backdrop. She was posing for fashion icon...

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All the companies tied to Isabel dos Santos

The Luanda Leaks is an investigation into the empire of Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of Angola’s former president. The leaks included more than 700,000 emails, contracts and other...

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How Western advisers helped an autocrat’s daughter amass and shield a fortune

This story was co-published with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Pausing at the entrance of a star-studded bash at the Cannes Film Festival, 1990s-icon Sharon Stone flashed...

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How Africa’s richest woman bought her way out of scrutiny from Western banks

In 2013, Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, was facing a major headache: She had become toxic to Western banks. “These guys hear about Isabel and they run like the devil from the cross,” read...

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Accenture took millions from an autocrat’s daughter despite corruption...

Accenture executive Rui Trigo Guedes didn’t react as you might expect when, in 2016, a top newspaper compiled corruption allegations against one of his firm’s clients, Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s first...

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Isabel dos Santos hired Trump-tied lobbyists right after learning of the...

Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s scandal-plagued richest woman, hired a US lobbying firm with close ties to the Trump administration last month, a day after learning that a group of journalists, including...

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Latin America’s new leftists are choosing oil despite renewables boom

The new leftist presidents of Argentina and Mexico both entered office with their countries’ renewables sectors taking on unprecedented levels of investment, following a series of successful clean...

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Coronavirus spells trouble for Latin America’s sputtering, China-linked...

For a sign of how much coronavirus and a Chinese slowdown could hurt Latin America, take a look at Chile, which sells about a third of its exports to China. Chilean officials are now hastily trying to...

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The EU expanded its tax haven blacklist but the world’s biggest tax haven...

Weeks after Brexit, the EU appeared to fire a warning shot towards the UK, adding the Cayman Islands—a British Overseas Territory—to its tax haven blacklist this week. The list, which threatens those...

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A Bill Gates-led fund is pumping millions into “game changer” lithium mining...

It takes an estimated 70,000 liters of water to mine a single ton of lithium, an alkali metal that humanity may come to depend on as it turns to batteries to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels....

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Mexico is illegally destroying protected mangrove trees to build an $8...

Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has defied a government order by cutting down protected mangrove trees on the site where president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has ordered the construction of an...

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Mexico’s environment watchdog forgave a fine on the president’s...

The new head of Mexico’s environmental watchdog canceled a $700,000 fine levied against a company accused of destroying dozens of hectares of mangroves on the site of president Andres Manuel Lopez...

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Coronavirus could have a lasting effect on China-dominated lithium sector

It’s been a tough time for miners of lithium, the metal essential to many high-performing batteries. Just as the market looked to be crawling out of a two-year slump that knocked about 60% off the...

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Mexico can’t afford to limit travel from US despite coronavirus threat

Mexico’s deputy health minister was hesitant last week when discussing the idea of tightening the US border to tackle the novel coronavirus.“If it were technically necessary to consider mechanisms of...

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Coronavirus is hammering Latin American economies

Latin American economies are set to suffer heavily from the new coronavirus pandemic and plummeting oil prices, with the region’s collective GDP to shrink 1.5% in 2020, Credit Suisse said in a note to...

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Migrant camps on Mexican border are scrambling to avert “mass infection” from...

Self-isolating isn’t straightforward at the encampment in Matamoros, a Mexican border city home to about 2,500 people living in tents, waiting on US asylum and immigration claims.There are no confirmed...

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Russia has reported few coronavirus cases but a sharp spike in pneumonia

Despite its large population and hefty border with China, Russia has reported just 306 confirmed coronavirus cases. Pneumonia, however, is booming, according to official statistics.As the US and EU...

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Coronavirus has crippled global protest movements

Algeria’s protest movement seemed unstoppable.After forcing the country’s president of 20 years to step down last year—and the arrest of dozens of the country’s leaders—the protesters continued into...

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Coronavirus is imperiling billions of informal workers—especially women

As the novel coronavirus slowly spreads into the developing world, billions of people face a horrible choice: keep going to their informal jobs and risk contracting or spreading the virus, or stay at...

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Mexico’s state oil company hasn’t paid hundreds of workers for months

Mexico’s populist president is trying to reshape the country into an economy with strong worker protections that is driven by oil growth. Yet hundreds of workers at state oil firm Pemex have gone...

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Latin Americans will be poorer in 2020 than in 2008, IMF says

When 2019 became 2020, Latin Americans hoped they were leaving behind their “second lost decade” for one of greater growth and solid middle-income prosperity.But, after the onslaught of the novel...

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Art detectives go deep inside the criminal underworld on hunt for stolen Van...

When a thief stole a multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh from a small museum in the Netherlands last month, Octave Durham almost immediately found himself a person of interest.“It’s not a...

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Refugees are suffering from a “catastrophic” worldwide aid shortage

It took a month, countless emails, tweets and a desperate Facebook post for Clare Moseley to get hold of and then deliver hand sanitizer for some of Europe’s most vulnerable people—more than 1,000...

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