Britain’s National Crime Agency reckons the country’s banks and their subsidiaries (including those in overseas territories) launder “many hundreds of billions of pounds” each year. Much of it is ploughed into property: over 40,000 properties in London are held by overseas firms. But few cases
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A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced three people to death for their involvement in the killing of 10 policemen and for belonging to an extremist group, a judicial source said. The defendants were found guilty by a Cairo criminal court of being involved in the killing of 10 policemen, including an officer, between August […]
Thousands of people are converging on the Vatican for the canonization of Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Oscar Romero, two of the towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church. Pope Paul VI oversaw the modernising church reforms of the 1960s, while Archbishop Romero was a human rights icon murdered for his defense of El Salvador’s […]
Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on Thursday said he would advise Labour Party lawmakers to vote down a Brexit divorce deal that Theresa May is trying to clinch with the EU. Nearly six months before the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU, there is little clarity about how the world’s fifth largest economy and […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused China of thinking Americans are “stupid” and vowed that he was ready to inflict economic pain on the Asian power. “They lived too well for too long and, frankly, I guess they think that the Americans are stupid people. Americans are not stupid people,” the outspoken mogul-turned-president told “Fox […]
South Korea never considered lifting sanctions against North Korea imposed over the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship, the country’s Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said on Thursday. South Korea’s Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha had said on Wednesday that the sanctions, imposed against Pyongyang following a torpedo attack on a Corvette that killed 46 South […]










