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Brazil

Rio Olympics: Irish IOC member arrested over illegal ticket sales

A member of the International Olympic Committee’s executive board has been arrested in Rio – in connection with a probe into illegal ticket sales.

Mexico

Son of Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman kidnapped

A son of Mexico’s infamous drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was among a group of suspected criminals abducted in a top tourist resort.

Brazil

Ex-FIFA president Joao Havelange dies in Rio aged 100

The head of international football’s governing body from 1974 to 1998, Joao Havelange, has died at the age of 100 in his hometown Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil

Brazil's former president Lula to stand trial on charges related to the Petrobras scandal

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to stand trial on obstruction of justice charges related to the Petrobras corruption scandal.

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Sport

Former German FA boss banned for one year

The former chief of the German Football Association and current Fifa executive committee member Wolfgang Niersbach has been banned, with immediate effect, from all football related activity for one…

Vatican

Italian journalists cleared in Vatican leaks trial, two others convicted

Two journalists have been cleared by a Vatican court of publishing leaked documents claiming the top of the Catholic Church was plagued by corruption.

World News

Brazil: Rousseff denounces impeachment process as a 'farce'

Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has presented her written defence to a Senate impeachment trial.

Luxembourg

LuxLeaks whistleblowers convicted but not jailed

Two French whistleblowers have been convicted in the so-called LuxLeaks tax scandal, but have avoided jail.

Russia

Russian governor Nikita Belykh held over 'large bribe' in corruption probe

The governor of the central Russian Kirov region has been detained, “accused of accepting a 400,000 euro bribe’:http://tass.

Brazil

Brazil's interim president dismisses corruption allegations against him

Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer has dismissed graft allegations against him as dishonest and reckless.

Spain

Spain: prosecutors seek 19-year jail term for Princess Cristina's husband

Prosecutors in the tax fraud trial of Spain’s Princess Cristina are seeking 19-years in jail for her husband Inaki Urdangarin.

Europe News

EU launches official one-year inquiry into Panama Papers scandal

The inquiry committee will have 65 members and will report back in one year

World News

Brussels lobbying not transparent enough, admit lobbyists

Brussels lobbyists have taken the unusual step of admitting the openness around how they seek to influence EU decision-making is neither credible nor…

Europe News

Nearly one billion lost to fraud, say EU investigators

Nearly one billion euros last year were lost to fraud, EU investigators say.

World News

Brazil anti-corruption minister quits after 'trying to spoil' corruption probe

Anti-corruption protesters in Brazil have been given yet more ammunition in their drive to clean up public life.

Sport

FIFA sack deputy secretary general Kattner

Scandal-hit FIFA has fired its deputy secretary general, Markus Kattner, with immediate effect, after he was accused of paying himself bonuses worth millions of…

Business Series

Brazil's Petrobras gets new boss with same old problems

Pedro Parente, the new boss of Brazil's scandal-ridden state-controlled energy firm Petrobras, has been talking about the challenges ahead.

World

Edi Rama: we need to stop all this talk about a corrupt Albania

Audrey Tilve: It’s still the dream to be a part of the European Union.

Sport

Tokyo 2020 Olympics under greater scrutiny

A Singaporean company called ‘Black Tidings’ is at the centre of an investigation of payments made by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bidding committee and

World

With Michel Temer at the head, what's next for Brazil?

He’s the man of the moment in Brazil, but relatively unknown on the international stage. Michel Temer has taken the reins as president, for an as-yet