Alejandro Toledo is the latest Latin American leader to be implicated in the Odebrecht corruption scandal. Peruvian ex-President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, the latest Latin American leader to be jailed in connection with the Odebrecht construction firm corruption scandal. Toledo was convicted of taking $35m in bribes … Read more
The experts had warned for years: Cuba’s power grid was on the verge of collapse, relying on plants nearly a half-century old and importing fuel that the cash strapped Communist government could barely afford. On Friday morning their dire predictions came true, as the entire island plunged into the most prolonged blackout it has suffered … Read more
Supporters say she donated about $50 to charity, but investigators accuse her of helping Ukraine buy weapons. A court in Russia has sentenced US-Russian dual national Ksenia Karelina to 12 years in prison after finding her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court in the Urals city … Read more
Redesigned bills pay tribute to Japanese capitalism, women’s equality and scientific innovation. Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, with the redesigned bills featuring 3D holograms intended to thwart counterfeiters. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday said the redesigned 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen bills paid tribute to Japanese … Read more
Ryan Salame pled guilty to tens of millions of dollars in unlawful campaign donations to boost causes supported by his boss. Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX’s Bahamian subsidiary and a top lieutenant of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been sentenced to 90 months in prison, United States federal prosecutors have said. … Read more
The military had promised elections in July to restore civilian rule, but it also said security would take priority. Burkina Faso’s military rulers will remain in power for another five years after national talks ended in agreeing to extend the transition back to democracy by 60 months from July, according to the text of an … Read more
Atsuko Sato is seen with her Japanese shiba inu dog Kabosu, best known as the logo of cryptocurrency Dogecoin, playing with students at a kindergarten in Narita, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on March 19. Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images The dog that inspired the famous … Read more
Police say that man who first went missing in 1998 was held by a 61-year-old neighbour just a few minutes from his home. An Algerian man who went missing in 1998 during the country’s civil war has been found alive in his neighbour’s cellar 26 years later, according to authorities. The country’s Ministry of Justice … Read more
Police say that man who first went missing in 1998 was held by a 61-year-old neighbour just a few minutes from his home. An Algerian man who went missing in 1998 during the country’s civil war has been found alive in his neighbour’s cellar 26 years later, according to authorities. The country’s Ministry of Justice … Read more
An Algerian man who had been missing for 26 years has been found in his neighbor’s house, just a few minutes’ walk away, the country’s justice ministry said this week. The man only identified as Omar B. had vanished at the age of 19 during the Algerian Civil War in 1998, and his family assumed … Read more