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10-21-2024   Albania’s left-wing former President Meta is arrested on corruption allegations

10-21-2024   IACHR and REDESCA: Venezuela Must Protect the Yanomami People from the Advance of Illegal Mining and other Illicit Activities

10-21-2024   Brazil environmental disaster victims take case against mining giant BHP to UK court

10-20-2024   In Mexico's bloodied Sinaloa state, police and prosecutors conspired to cover up opponent's killing

10-19-2024   Newspaper offices hit by gunfire in Mexico’s Sinaloa state capital

10-19-2024   Oil Prices Show How Numb Traders Have Become to US Sanctions

10-17-2024   ‘Smoking gun’ testimony implicates Philippines’ Duterte in drug war killings

10-15-2024   UK sanctions target Israeli settler outposts in West Bank

10-12-2024  Mexico sends troops to protect lime growers amid cartel extortion demands

10-8-2024     El Segundo Boeing workers file whistleblower lawsuits alleging retaliation

10-8-2024     The mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after he took office

10-8-2024     Survivors of massacre in small Haitian town where 70 died point finger at government

10-5-2024     France's Macron calls for a halt to arms sales to Israel, then does a U-turn

10-5-2024     India security forces kill 28 Maoist rebels in firefight

10-3-2024     Here's why fewer people are dying from fentanyl – and it's probably not what you think

10-3-2024     Ex-Nevada gubernatorial candidate convicted in federal wire fraud case

10-1-2024     The Pinochet Regime at 50: The Assassination of General Carlos Prats and Sofía Cuthbert

10-1-2024      How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law to kill Americans

9-30-2024   Myanmar Junta Receives Six More Chinese Warplanes Amid Deadly Airstrikes on Civilians

9-27-2024   Whistleblower Reveals U.S. Interference in Indonesia’s Affairs

9-27-2024   Civil war in the home of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan

9-26-2024   How US Trade Unionists Opposed the Dirty War in El Salvador

9-26-2024   “Late US coal tycoon personally ordered union killings in Colombia”

9-25-2024   It Was Supposed to Be a Sting Operation. Did ICE Traffic Drugs Instead?

9-21-2024   More than 100 killed or missing as Sinaloa Cartel war rages in Mexico

9-16-2024   Greek report warns of risk of Turkish mafia being used for espionage activities in country

9-11-2024   Malaysia’s police rescue 402 children after sex abuse allegations at Islamic welfare homes

9-7-2024     How Opioids Corrupted Organized Medicine

9-7-2024     Mexico arrests alleged cartel kingpin tied to 43 missing students

9-3-2024     Germany sentences high-ranking PKK terrorist to over 4 years in jail

9-3-2024     Is America's heartland up for grabs?

9-3-2024     Nigerian Military Evacuates Corpses Of 37 Villagers In Boko Haram Attack On Yobe Community

9-2-2024     US seizes Maduro plane in what Venezuela calls an act of 'piracy'

9-2-2024     In Peru, Victims' Families Stunned By 'Injustice' Of Prosecution Cutoff

8-31-2024   47 Indian 'Cyber Slaves' In Laos, Forced To Run Dating Apps Scam, Rescued

8-30-2024   Son of El Chapo Enters US Witness Protection Program, Universal Reports

8-30-2024   US govt targeting pro-Palestine activists under its secret watchlist: CAIR

8-30-2024   Notorious former leader of Gulf Cartel, creator of Los Zetas, released from prison

8-29-2024   VIDEO: Secret chats expose decade of US meddling in Ecuador

8-28-2024   Queensland government endorses casino side venture with associate of infamous crime boss, 'Broken Tooth' Koi

8-27-2024   Preacher wanted by FBI on sex crime charges evades Philippine police as followers resist in dayslong standoff

8-26-2024   First criminal trial starts in New Hampshire youth detention center abuse scandal

8-23-2024   America’s Breeding Farms: What History Books Never Told You

8-23-2024   Justice Department Sues RealPage for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme that Harms Millions of American Renters

8-21-2024   Congress probes pharma work with Chinese military

8-20-2024   Sons of Nigerian President and His Tycoon Friend Owned a Company Together

8-19-2024   Human Rights Abuses in Mexico “Systematic and Widespread”; “Not the Work of a Few 'Bad Apples'” Truth Commission Recommends Declassification of U.S. Dirty War Records

8-17-2024   Airstrikes in Syria’s Deir al-Zur could foreshadow a deeper conflict

8-16-2024   What to know about the US arrest of a Peruvian gang leader suspected of killing 23 people

8-16-2024   Humana to pay $90 mln to settle claim that it overcharged Medicare for drugs

8-15-2024   Pakistan’s military arrests three former officers amid spy chief probe

8-12-2024   Children among up to 200 Rohingya killed in Myanmar drone attack

8-12-2024   Guerrilla lockdown confining 50,000 people to their homes in west Colombia: governor

8-11-2024   Insurance lobbyists block federal crackdown on costly retirement advice

8-10-2024   First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Speaks Out

8-9-2024     Truth Social and the Cayman Islands Connection

8-8-2024     Meet the army of lobbyists behind $2 trillion nuclear weapons boost

8-7-2024     Assange Is Free, But the Fight to Protect Press Freedom Is Far From Over

8-6-2024     There Are Options for Reforming Social Security, But Action is Needed Now

8-5-2024     Former BVI premier Andrew Fahie sentenced to 11 years for role in cocaine-import scheme in Miami

8-4-2024     Fifth of medicines in Africa may be sub-par or fake, research finds

8-2-2024     $10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

8-2-2024     Gentiva Pays $19.4 Million for False Claims Act Violations Involving Hospice Care

8-1-2024     The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

8-1-2024     Former Honduras national police chief gets 19 years in U.S. prison for cocaine distribution

8-1-2024     Vatican judge under investigation for allegedly favoring the mob

7-31-2024   US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro

7-30-2024   Lt.Calley, the only officer convicted for My Lai massacre, dead at 80

7-30-2024   De Lima: Duterte must be jailed for drug killings

7-29-2024   When Bin Laden set up a base in London

7-29-2024   The Narcoterrorism Challenge to India’s National Security

7-29-2024   US gov’t-linked firm is source of exit poll claiming Venezuelan opposition won election

7-28-2024   ‘Elaborate Ponzi scheme.’ CEO of Miami-area hospitals to get subpoena, part of new probe

7-27-2024    ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s lawyer says his client was ‘forcibly kidnapped’ by son of ‘El Chapo’

7-24-2024   53 indicted in wire fraud scheme linked to bail bonds, 3 wanted

7-21-2024    Saudi Arabia: Executions rise despite pledge to human rights

7-18-2024    Rwandan President Kagame Wins New Term With 99% of Vote

7-16-2024   Baby ‘saved from traffickers’ was borrowed by charity for photos

7-16-2024   Former CIA official charged with being secret agent for South Korean intelligence

7-15-2024   Brazilian police launch mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas to fight organized crime

7-14-2024   Hemp execs pledge millions to Republican Party of Florida, texts reveal

7-12-2024   ‘Enough of the terror’: Prosecutors urge jury to convict accused Hawaii crime boss in racketeering trial closing

7-10-2024   The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

7-8-2024      Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated

7-8-2024     Top UN official in Congo welcomes 2-week truce in the east, where violence is at 'alarming levels'

7-7-2024     NATO-Russia charter 1997 was “forced step,” said Yeltsin

7-6-2024     Ecuador police free 49 people held in mine by drug gang

7-2-2024     Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison, has parole denied

7-2-2024     Supreme Court Weakens Safeguards Against State Public Corruption

7-1-2024     Lawmakers request review of two defense industry acquisitions

7-1-2024     New Audit Finds 7.1 Million Visa Applicants Not Interviewed

6-30-2024   Judge in Ecuador orders judges, attorneys and officials held in jail as part of corruption probe

6-30-2024   Paramilitary forces attack a city under military control in central Sudan

6-27-2024   Ex-Trump Associate Felix Sater Loses Money-Laundering Trial

6-27-2024   Bolivia foils military coup attempt: All you need to know

6-24-2024   UN expert calls for end to the ‘war on drugs’

6-24-2024   Court Clears Philippine Rights Activist De Lima Of Last Drugs Charge: Lawyer

6-23-2024   Niger bet on a China-backed oil pipeline. Now, the project is stalled.

6-20-2024   Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts

6-17-2024   South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross among 6 charged with racketeering

6-13-2024   ‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: how cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

6-11-2024   Banana giant must compensate victims of Colombian paramilitary: US court

6-10-2024   Beny Steinmetz: Scion of Diamond Royalty, Now At Bay Over Bribery Charges

6-8-2024     Moldova’s Interpol chief charged with corruption

6-5-2024     Time for US to take extradition of terrorists Rana and Headley to India seriously

6-5-2024     Two Van Gogh paintings once owned by Kinahan cartel ally returned to Amsterdam museum

6-5-2024     Lebanon: Israel's White Phosphorous Use Risks Civilian Harm

6-3-2024     Missing Cryptoqueen’s murky links to Bulgarian underworld

6-3-2024     Pakistan-linked cyber groups target Indian government and military

6-3-2024     British bank accused of helping to fund terrorists

6-3-2024     Feds Accuse Far-Right Newspaper of Being a Money Laundering Operation

5-31-2024   House Oversight Emails Suggest National Institute of Health’s “FOIA Lady” Advised Fauci Aide to Circumvent FOIA Requests

5-30-2024   Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

5-30-2024   Tens of billions of dollars in gold flows illegally out of Africa each year, a new report says

5-29-2024   Authorities arrest man allegedly running ‘likely world’s largest ever’ cybercrime botnet

5-28-2024   Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

5-28-2024   Investigating Kagame’s repressive regime

5-28-2024   Former Malta prime minister pleads not guilty in corruption case

5-25-2024   A Legal Doctrine That Shields Police From Many Lawsuits May Be Losing Support

5-25-2024   Myanmar Junta Revives $3.6 Billion Chinese-Backed Dam Project

5-24-2024   Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service. Now he's going after its government

5-24-2024   Former Wichita doctor sentenced to decade in prison for opioid prescription scheme

5-24-2024   Colombia’s ex-President Uribe charged with witness tampering in polarizing legal battle

5-23-2024   Fuelling the future, poisoning the present: Myanmar’s rare earth boom

5-21-2024    Hedge fund founder, fighting $1.8 billion UK tax fraud case, says he acted honestly

5-20-2024   New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

5-20-2024   US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds

5-19-2024   CIA Targeting Smartphone App Data

5-16-2024   NGOs Condemn Meeting with Sanctioned Bulgarian Politician: A Challenge to European Values

5-16-2024   The Israel-Affiliated Organization Leading the Backlash Against Student Protests

5-14-2024   How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate

5-13-2024    Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia: A Growing Threat to Global Peace and Security

5-13-2024    House to summon ex- Duterte adviser on P3 billion drug bust

5-12-2024    Surging Violence and Corruption Poison the “Marvelous City” of Rio

5-10-2024   In blow to Canadian mining companies, Ecuador rejects international arbitration

5-10-2024   ‘Ponzi scheme’ or bookkeeping error? The FBI is probing a Collegeville investment firm.

5-9-2024     Ex-AUC paramilitary Salvatore Mancuso granted freedom by Bogotá Court

5-8-2024     More Than 321,000 U.S. Kids Lost a Parent to Drug ODs in a Decade

5-6-2024     TD Risks ‘Lost Decade’ in US Money-Laundering Scandal, Jefferies Says

5-1-2024      Stolen Colombian munitions might be fueling violence in Haiti

4-28-2024   Inside Nigeria’s legal battle with US over $8.6 million arms fund

4-21-2024   UN Urges Probe Into Libyan Activist's Death In Custody

4-18-2024   UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders

4-16-2024   US makes failed bid for Iran to allow 'symbolic strike' by Israel

4-16-2024   A Timeline of the World Bank Child Sexual Abuse Scandal

4-15-2024   Nikki Haley has a new job with DC think tank

4-12-2024   20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court

4-11-2024   Germany Charges Suspected Leader Of Syrian Rebel Group

4-11-2024  Rwanda-backed rebels are choking the Congolese people, yet this is one conflict the world can easily end

4-11-2024  Principal Drug and Weapons Supplier for MS-13 in Honduras Arrested and Extradited for Racketeering, Narcotics, and Firearms Offenses

4-10-2024  Sicily's Mafia Is Expanding Its White Collar Crime

4-9-2024    US gives Ukraine weapons it seized from Iran en route to Houthis

4-9-2024    Colombia charges ex-president Uribe with witness tampering

4-8-2024   An espionage scandal rocks Austria, laying bare alleged Russian spying operations across Europe

4-8-2024   'Panama Papers' trial starts. 27 people charged in the worldwide money laundering case

4-6-2024   Michigan investigator awarded for exposing multi-million dollar unemployment fraud ring

4-6-2024   Explainer-Why did Ecuador raid Mexico's Quito embassy?

4-5-2024   Former Goodwill CEO indicted on additional fraud charges

4-4-2024   U.S. lawmakers call for release of more Brazil dictatorship files

4-4-2024   Ecopetrol, Guerillas and Death Squads: The War for Colombia’s Oil

4-3-2024    When the Earth Loses its Stewards

4-1-2024    George Soros Fund Buys $400 Million Stake In 227 US Radio Stations Going Into 2024 Election

4-1-2024    Medicare Recipients Lose Thousands to 'Phantom Billing'

3-31-2024   Mayor Killed In Mexico Region Plagued By Organized Crime

3-30-2024  Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews

3-28-2024  Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments

3-27-2024  Private school students get fake ADHD diagnoses for 200-point boost to SAT, ACT after tests brought back by Ivy League

3-26-2024  Medicare Advantage is overbilling Medicare by 22%

3-26-2024  Who killed Marielle Franco? Arrests lay bare nexus of politicians, police and paramilitaries

3-26-2024  Son of Guinea-Bissau's ex-president jailed in US for trafficking drugs to fund coup

3-25-2024  SQUEEZED BY AFRICAN COUPS, BIDEN COZIES UP TO THE WORLD’S WORST DICTATOR

3-23-2024  Burkina Faso's Security Forces Are Killing Civilians, Say Survivors of One Massacre

3-19-2024   The methadone clinic monopoly: Opioid treatment chains backed by private equity are fighting calls for reform

3-17-2024   Niger suspends military cooperation with US: Spokesman

3-17-2024   Turkish-Cypriot Occupied Side Hiding Place for Criminals Evading Interpol

3-12-2024   Utahn indicted in $4 million South Sudan arms smuggling scheme

3-14-2024   Biden administration imposes first sanctions on West Bank settler outposts

3-11-2024    Russia designates US government as APT Sand Eagle, claims it launched attack on Russian devices

3-8-2024     Former president of Honduras convicted in US of aiding drug traffickers

3-7-2024     Visual Evidence Shows Illegal Settler Construction in West Bank Surging

3-6-2024    Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Informant Was a Liability. Federal Agents Shut Him Up.

3-6-2024     Tren de Aragua; The Rising Venezuelan Mafia

3-4-2024     The Vicuñas and the $9,000 Sweater

3-2-2024     Armed gangs attack main prison in Haiti, releasing inmates

3-1-2024      Ex-ISIS chief appointed as commander of US-backed militia in Syria

3-1-2024      Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti’s 2004 coup

2-27-2024  Japanese Yakuza maintains connections with Arakan Army

2-27-2024  Indonesia’s dark role in the Rohingya massacre

2-26-2024   The Israeli Settlers Attacking Their Palestinian Neighbors

2-25-2024   $100 Million Cryptocurrency Scheme Uncovered in Myanmar – What’s Going On?

2-22-2024  Glen Cove Native Helped Epstein Cover Up Sex Trafficking, Lawsuit Claims

2-22-2024.  ‘Little dark secret': DEA agent on trial accused of taking $250K in bribes from Mafia

2-21-2024   An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance

2-20-2024  The widow and aides of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are indicted in his killing

2-15-2024   Red flags, missed clues: How accused US diplomat-turned-Cuban spy avoided scrutiny for decades

2-12-2024   Facing setbacks against resistance forces, Myanmar’s military government activates conscription law

2-8-2024     Uncovering Illegal Weapons Trafficking Trends in Latin America Through Open Source Research

2-3-2024     The US toppling of Imran Khan

1-28-2024   Angola closes Russia's way to diamond business

1-28-2024   Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war

1-26-2024   Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel

1-25-2024   Ecuador uncovers largest stash of cocaine in its history: 22 tons hidden in a pig farm

1-19-2024    Peru’s natural resources: CIA-linked US ambassador meets with mining and energy ministers to talk ‘investments’

1-15-2024    Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption

1-11-2024     China Evaluates Russia’s Use of Hypersonic ‘Daggers’ in the Ukraine War

1-11-2024     Arms Trafficking Case Puts Europe-Paraguay Pipeline on the Map

1-10-2024    Nominee for S. Korea’s spy chief shown to have accepted major sum in form of ‘rent’ from US oil giant

1-8-2024      Adolfo Macías Villamar: Curfew in Ecuador after infamous gang leader 'Fito' vanishes from cell

1-8-2024      The Cuban spying case that has shocked the US government

1-5-2024      German prosecutors launch probe into suspected sabotage of LNG pipeline

1-5-2024       Good Rebels or Good Timing?: Myanmar’s MNDAA and Operation 1027

1-5-2024       Former LA deputy mayor loses bid to get racketeering case dismissed

1-4-2024      Trump's businesses got at least $7.8 million in foreign payments while he was president, House Democrats say

1-3-2024      High-end sex ring in Boston and D.C. areas was 'honeypot' scheme by Russia, China, South Korea or even Israel - to ensnare US officials, intelligence experts believe

1-3-2024       Texas man charged in $60M healthcare fraud, kickback scheme

1-2-2024      Deadly violence against Colombia’s leaders remained high in 2023

1-2-2024      Sen. Bob Menendez faces new allegations he received bribes to aid Qatari government


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