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Dennis van de Water/Shutterstock Transparency International on Wednesday published its latest Corruption Perceptions Index, a global ranking of fairness around the world. The ranking of 180 countries is based on the level of public sector corruption in 2017, according to businesspeople, journalists, and civic organisations. Higher-ranked countries tend to have more press freedom, access to information […]
The most corrupt countries have been revealed in a new study. The annual Corruption Percept Index analyses 180 countries, on how they are perceived by the public sector. They are ranked from zero to 100, with 100 being the least corrupt. But where does the UK come? Thankfully the country has improved from last year. […]
For someone tasked with breathing life into Ukrainian public broadcasting, Zurab Alasania has a peculiar view of service-oriented journalism. “It’s like broccoli,” the sturdy, ethnic Georgian says over coffee. “It may not taste good, but it’s nutritious.” Then again, not much about Alasania, 52, is what you’d call ordinary. Tapped in April to lead the […]
The Justice Department is going Hollywood as a way to recover $ 540 million in assets that the US government says were stolen from Malaysia’s troubled state fund. The DOJ is seeking to acquire the rights to movies linked to fraud as part of a corruption probe. On Thursday, the DOJ announced it was filing […]
During Carnival, millions take to the streets in Brazil to forget their woes and party. This past February, however, there were shouts of “Fora Temer!” (Temer out!) — a familiar cry from Brazilians fed up with President Michel Temer’s government, but coming from revelers, it was a sign of just how outraged citizens have become […]
Netflix already released the first minute-or-so of the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black last month, picking up where the gun-pointing cliffhanger of the fourth left off…and leaving us pretty much on the same cliffhanger. That was the first and last footage we’d seen of the anticipated upcoming blast of OITNB episodes, which will take place over […]
Getty/Joshua Lott Prosecutors from Cook County, Chicago are looking for additional cases of corruption surrounding a former Chicago police officer, the Chicago Tribune reported on Monday. Prosecutors alleged that there may have been more compromised convictions involving Sgt. Ronald Watts and his subordinates stretching back almost 10 years — far more than the four drug […]
BBC Tom Hardy takes on the corrupt East India Company in Taboo The corporation remains one of the most powerful organisations in history, a key part of Britain’s colonial administration and a source of shame as a result of its violence and corruption. Here’s everything Taboo never told you about the company that the historian […]
