Rio Tinto, long the bluest of blue-chip companies, finds itself mired in a corruption scandal over how it was able to secure a fabulously large iron ore project in the jungles of the Simandou Mountains, in the historically corruption-challenged west African nation of Guinea.
BUCHAREST, Romania — An Israeli employee of private intelligence firm Black Cube was convicted in Romania Wednesday of trying to intimidate the country’s crusading anti-corruption chief.
Germany’s ThyssenKrupp, which makes the submarines that Israel buys, has been involved in bribes of officials across the world to push the sale of its submarines, according to German news reports in 2015 and early 2016.
Let’s be honest: being president, of anywhere, doesn’t look like much fun. The pressure is intense, the workload relentless.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining firm has signed away royalties from one of the country’s most lucrative mining projects to a company owned by a close friend of President Joseph Kabila, Global Witness said on Tuesday, allegations that were swiftly denied.
While the disjointed and contentious Trump transition has mostly focused on the atrocious potential picks for high level offices, one story nearly slipped under the radar: the targeted and dish-served-cold ruthlessness of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s termination as leader of the presidential transition.
UKRAINIAN politicians have defended their appointment of a young female minister after X-rated images were allegedly found of her on social media.
Israel has held a joint air exercise with France on the island of Corsica for the past two weeks.
A French-Lebanese businessman has publicly repeated claims that the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave €50m (£43m) to fund Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 campaign for the French presidency.
Voters in Bulgaria and Moldova elected pro-Russian populist presidents on the weekend, adding to mounting concern about Western unity following Donald Trump’s victory in the US election last week.