“London is not a place to stash your dodgy cash, announced then-British prime minister David Cameron in 2015, as part of a grand move to bring the UK to the forefront of the global anti-corruption fight. But it wasn’t true then and it isn’t now.
In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Saturday Night Live has been building a reputation for smart, sharp skits on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment.
I’m a dictator, and things are pretty good. I’ve just rigged re-election for my second term, got the press more or less under my thumb, and I have a load of fancy cars, boats, and houses scattered around the world to escape to if things go south. There’s just one problem—I can’t get this goddam money-laundering investigator off my back.
Donald Trump’s eating habits are well known. He loves well-done steaks with ketchup; he presses a red button in the Oval Office when he wants a butler to bring in Coke; when he launched missiles on Syria, he told the Chinese president over “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen.”
Dec. 1 was easily the biggest day so far in the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia: In agreeing to a plea deal with Mike Flynn, special counsel Robert Mueller has officially flipped one of Trump’s most senior and earliest backers.
President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Mike Flynn made a statement today, after his guilty plea for lying to the FBI over phone calls with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. His decision to plead guilty, he says, was made “in the best interests of my family and of our country.”
With former US national security advisor Mike Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI, special prosecutor Robert Mueller now has serious leverage on three of president Donald Trump’s top 2016 campaign officials in his probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election.
The pro-Brexit campaign was built on a heavy anti-immigrant platform, and Britain’s EU referendum seems to be having the effect Leave voters wanted.
The day after NBC News fired Matt Lauer for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace,” the former star anchor has released an apology.
If president Donald Trump doesn’t understand the danger of spreading disturbing, unverified videos posted by someone like Jayden Fransen—the deputy leader of far-right group Britain First, who has been convicted of anti-Muslim harassment—he should listen to Brendan Cox.
That Russia’s 2018 World Cup poster is a paean to old-school Soviet imagery is clear for all to see. But less apparent are the layers of nostalgia and “great power” symbolism packed within it, as Russia prepares for its second big geopolitical prestige project since the Sochi Olympics: the World Cup.
In the middle of a morning Twitter spree that bragged about his economic performance, and attacked CNN and NBC, president Donald Trump retweeted three disturbing, unverified videos today.
Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he decries America’s trade deficits with countries around the world—and that’s not his fault. None of us do.
On Dec. 5 the EU will publish a blacklist of countries that have “harmful tax practices.” By its own criteria, that should include six EU member states, according to a report by the Tax Justice Network, an NGO.
After two years of recession, Russia’s economy finally started growing in 2017, but its people aren’t feeling richer. You can tell by looking at their cigarettes.
Under pressure to address the Paradise Papers’ revelations of tax avoidance, yesterday British chancellor Philip Hammond unveiled a measure aimed at tax avoidance by tech giants like Apple and Google.
On Nov. 21, Britain’s Electoral Commission opened its fourth current investigation into the activities of those who successfully campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union in a 2016 referendum.
Yet another searing indictment of US president Donald Trump’s business activities has emerged: The Trump Organization earned millions from a Panamanian licensing deal that allegedly sold property to people with ties to drug cartels. But the scheme wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the broken and corruptible nature of global property markets.
The Russian embassy in London has a Twitter account like no other.
The European Union has been aiming to strengthen ties between its countries’ armies since 2007. This week, it finally took a concrete step towards that, with 23 of the bloc’s 28 member states signing a defense pact.
After Forbes revealed that US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross had lied to them for years about being a billionaire, another member of the publication’s “Richest People in America” ranking seems dismissive about the list.
It’s been a rough week for US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross. On Nov. 5 the Paradise Papers, a giant leak of documents, revealed that he had a stake worth millions in a company with ties to people close to Russian president Vladimir Putin. On Nov. 7, Forbes reported that Ross, who has spent 13 years on its Forbes 400 billionaires list, was in fact not, and probably never had been, a billionaire.
Silvio Berlusconi was expelled from Italy’s parliament in 2013, after being convicted of tax fraud. But far from retiring from politics, the media mogul and four-time prime minister is plotting a course back to power by backing a new conservative coalition, which just won in Sicily’s local elections.
The world’s most valuable company is in the spotlight on day two of the Paradise Papers revelations.
