Corruption / Bribery / Embezzlement

4 July 2021

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - Protesters took to the streets in Brazil on Saturday demanding the impeachment of President Jair...

Asylum / Immigration / Refugees

‘Return him to me,’ pleads mother of 2-year-old migrant found alone in Mexico

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Lorena Garcia, a young woman from a rural village in western Honduras, has accepted...

Central / Eastern Europe (Energy)

Cardinal among 10 indicted by Vatican for financial crimes

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A prominent Italian cardinal was among 10 people sent to trial in the Vatican...

Americas

Brazil top court gives nod for probe into Bolsonaro over vaccine deal

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Rosa Weber late on Friday authorized an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro...

ASEAN Countries

Boxer Pacquiao backs corruption claims with missing public funds allegation

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - More than 10 billion pesos ($204 million) in pandemic aid intended for poor Philippine...

Corruption / Bribery / Embezzlement

El Salvador attorney general seizes opposition party assets in corruption case

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The attorney general's office in El Salvador on Friday seized some assets of...

Corruption / Bribery / Embezzlement

S.African ex-leader Zuma asks court to cancel 15-month jail sentence

By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ex-leader Jacob Zuma on Friday asked the country's top court to annul...

Americas

Brazil top prosecutor to investigate Bolsonaro over COVID-19 vaccine deal

By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's top prosecutor agreed on Friday to request an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro for...

ASIA

S.African medics threaten court action as staff shortages hit COVID response

By Tim Cocks and Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African Medical Association threatened on Thursday to take the government...

Americas

Analysis-Brazil’s Bolsonaro is paying dearly to fend off impeachment

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is in a tight spot, caught between the rock...

ASIA

Switzerland orders son of Gaddafi’s oil chief to pay $1.5 million in bribery case

(Corrects typo in headline) By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A Swiss court ordered the son of former leader Muammar...

Americas

Central American officials blacklisted by U.S. as part of corruption crackdown

By Nelson Renteria, Sofia Menchu and Ted Hesson SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Central American presidential aides, top judges and former presidents...

ASIA

Brazil lower house leader torpedoes impeachment threat to Bolsonaro

1 July 2021

By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - There is currently no political path for launching impeachment proceedings against Brazilian President...

Corruption / Bribery / Embezzlement

S.Africa’s top court clears Ramaphosa of misleading parliament about donations

1 July 2021

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South Africa's top court on Thursday re-affirmed an earlier ruling that President Cyril Ramaphosa did not deliberately...

Conflicts / War / Peace

Jacob Zuma reps condemn ’emotional, angry’ South African court for his jail sentence

1 July 2021

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The majority ruling by South Africa's top court, sentencing Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail, was...

Americas

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will not be taken down by Senate probe

30 June 2021

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under pressure over allegations of corruption in his government's vaccine procurement...

Corruption / Bribery / Embezzlement

Croatian anti-corruption police arrest state TV head-media