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Corruption

The Big Question: Is political and economic stability beginning to take root in Africa?

Why are we asking this now? It was Pliny who said, Africa semper aliquid novi – out of Africa there is always something new. In recent decades however the epithet has more routinely been recast as: Out of Africa there is always...

Jury hears Sen. Stevens curse on wiretapped call

The jury in the corruption trial of Sen. Ted Stevens Monday heard the Alaska Republican use an obscenity to describe the Justice Department investigators pursuing him, as prosecutors played audio of government wiretaps as...

RI jury convicts 1 ex-hospital exec of corruption

A former hospital executive was convicted Monday of buying the influence of a Rhode Island lawmaker, while his former colleague was found not guilty of similar charges. A federal jury deliberated over five days before finding...

Thai protesters occupy street outside parliament

Chamlong Srimuang, a key anti-government protest leader arrives at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Thai police arrested the one-time Bangkok mayor on Sunday on charges of insurrection in a...

12 officials arrested in Delhi for graft

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi Monday arrested 12 officials of the Delhi government, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi Police on charges of corruption after it conducted a month-long sting operation.

Ex-Detroit center manager pleads guilty in probe

DETROIT - The former head of the city's downtown convention hall pleaded guilty Monday in a corruption investigation, the second Cobo Center director to admit taking bribes from a contractor. Glenn Blanton said he wrote checks...

NDC Declares War On Corruption

As one of its cardinal points in their manifesto dubbed -"A better Ghana", among other relevant issues, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), under the flagbearership of Prof. John Evans Atta Mills has declared total war on...

The sheriff at Siemens sees an endless battle

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Peter Solmssen, the general counsel of the German engineering conglomerate, says the company, which has about 400,000 employees around the world, is making progress in stamping out a corporate culture of corruption.

SPENGLER : Hockey moms and capital markets

Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, derided outside the United States as a mere country bumpkin unfit for higher office, personifies why Asian investors continue to pour money into the US, even as its...

Group Calls to Protect Public from Criminal Politicians

The Knesset Lobby for the Struggle Against Corruption, led by MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) met Monday and agreed to propose a law that would lengthen the time period during which politicians convicted of crimes are forbidden...

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