corruption

Panama election: Panamanians vote to elect new president

World
David Turner

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanians began voting Sunday in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the country’s former ...

Ecuadorians wanted an action man. President Noboa has fulfilled that role — embassy raid included

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David Turner

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — While world leaders have expressed shock and bewilderment over Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s decision to raid Mexico’s embassy ...

Mexico’s president says his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Ecuador after embassy raid

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David Turner

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Mexico is breaking off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito to ...

South Africa’s ruling party fields election candidates who have faced graft allegations

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David Turner

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress said Monday that six officials facing accusations of corruption have ...

An online protest movement exposes corruption in Uganda. Officials and others are rattled

World
David Turner

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Abuse of public funds. Failing hospitals. Potholes in the streets of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. These and ...

Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials trafficking

U.S.
Amanda Smith

The DOJ alleges that a high-ranking member of the Yakuza, Takeshi Ebisawa, was the central figure in a plot to funnel American ...

Revised mobilization bill contains ‘corruption risks’ – parliamentary committee

World
David Turner

Ukraine’s parliamentary Anti-Corruption Committee has found that the amended version of the government’s mobilization bill, submitted to the Ukrainian parliament on Jan. ...

The region where political violence is on the rise ahead of elections

World
David Turner

Thirty years after the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to a country experiencing increasing political violence ...

Sidney Powell: Former Trump attorney pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case

U.S.
Amanda Smith

CNN  —  Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial ...