Month: November 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. Source: AP Photo/Molly Riley.
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Interview: Amnesty to Ben Ali-Era Officials Is to Remove ‘Policy Paralysis’, Says Tunisian FM

Tunisia has been investing a lot in security infrastructure despite the economic slowdown. The interior ministry’s budget for 2018 has been increased by 12.5%. At the same…
Public Utilities Minister Robert Le Hunte, right, together with Minister in the Office of Prime Minister Stuart Young open the valves of the new WASA Mc Kai Booster Station off the Lady Young Road in Belmont yesterday. Source: SUREASH CHOLAI.
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Young tackles WASA corruption

This material belongs to: NewsDay. Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Stuart Young has signalled that he is going after…
In this Aug. 11, 2015, photo, a Metro Rail Transit commuter train passes by during rush hour traffic in metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government filed complaints Tuesday with an anti-graft office accusing many Cabinet officials in the previous administration of corruption in a maintenance contract for a Manila commuter train line hounded by near-daily breakdowns. Source: Aaron Favila AP Photo.
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Ex-officials accused of corruption in Manila train contract

This material belongs to: The Tribune. MANILA, PHILIPPINES  The Philippine government filed complaints Tuesday with an anti-graft office accusing many Cabinet officials in the previous…
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, meets with Defence Forces Generals in Harare at State House , Sunday, Nov, 19, 2017. Members of the ZANU PF Central committee fired Mugabe as chief and replaced him with dismissed deputy President, Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday. Source: AP.
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Robert Mugabe to meet with ousted VP as impeachment looms

This material belongs to: CNN. Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has agreed to direct talks with the former Vice President he recently fired, the…
Kosovo Albanians walks by a grafiti, reading "Eulex made in Serbia," in the Kosovar capital of Pristina on December 8, 2008.The EU agreed in February 2008 to send the 2,000-strong EULEX mission to Kosovo to gradually replace a United Nations operation and oversee the police, judiciary and customs. The UN Security Council last week gave a green light to the planned EU mission, which is likely to start its operation in Kosovo on December 9, 2008 under the UN umbrella. Source: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images.
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Top judge quits EU Kosovo mission, alleging corruption

This material belongs to: Politico. ‘I don’t want to be a part of this farce any more,’ Malcolm Simmons says. The chief judge at an…
In this photo provided by the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, destroyed buildings and a car are seen after an earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than one hundred people and injuring some 800 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. Source: Pouria Pakizeh/ISNA via AP.
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Collapsed state housing in Iranian quake shows corruption: Rouhani

This material belongs to: Reuters. BEIRUT (Reuters) – The ease with which some state-built homes collapsed in Sunday’s earthquake in western Iran showed corrupt practices…
Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui speaks during the eighth ministerial meeting of Libya’s neighboring countries in Tunis, Tunisia, March 22, 2016. Source: Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi.
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Interview: Amnesty to Ben Ali-Era Officials Is to Remove ‘Policy Paralysis’, Says Tunisian FM

This material belongs to: The Wire. Tunisian foreign minister Khemaies Jhinaoui has returned to India for the first time since 1986. Ahead of his meeting…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Lebanon's Christian Maronite patriarch on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted the head of the Lebanese Maronite church Beshara Rai, a historic first at a time when Riyadh is stepping up the pressure on Iran-backed Hezbollah. Source: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/GETTY.
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Are the anti-corruption sweeps in Saudi Arabia and China for real?

This material belongs to: Newsweek. The so-called “anti-corruption” campaigns in Saudi Arabia and China are actually forms of corruption in themselves. Claiming that the Crown Prince and Xi are…
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 17: Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (C) is escorted by U.S. Deputy Chief of Protocol Mark Walsh (R) as they walk into in the White House on June 17, 2016 in Washington, DC. The deputy crown prince will meet privately with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss issues "including de-escalating regional conflicts, our campaign against ISIL, Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Program, and efforts to further progress on the objectives agreed to at the U.S.-GCC Summit in April," according to the White House. Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
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Saudi Arabia makes fresh arrests in anti-graft crackdown: sources

This material belongs to: Reuters. RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian authorities have made further arrests and frozen more bank accounts in an expanding anti-corruption crackdown…
The Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, addresses the opening of the 7th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Source: UNODC.
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Corruption hits most vulnerable; obliterates faith in good governance, UN chief tells forum in Vienna

This material belongs to: UN News Centre. 6 November 2017 – Corruption can strike anywhere and deny people’s hope of a better future, United Nations Secretary-General António…