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Turkey’s 2024 income tax records, released on August 20, 2025, indicate an increasing trend of affluent individuals and corporations opting to conceal their identities, prompting concerns about transparency and the origins of private wealth.

Sri Lanka’s former president was admitted to the hospital on Saturday, a day after being charged with using public funds for private international travel, as the government intensified its crackdown on corruption.

The failure of a railway bridge under construction over a significant river in China has led to the deaths of at least 12 workers, with four others reported missing, as per state media reports.

The family of a British aid volunteer reportedly killed in a drone strike in Ukraine expressed that they were very disappointed by the response from the Foreign Office.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned late Friday amid a political deadlock over what he viewed as the necessity for harsher measures against Israel, further weakening the country’s already fragile caretaker administration.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed the head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency along with two other senior military commanders, three U.S. officials informed Reuters on Friday. This represents the latest action by President Donald Trump’s administration to remove officials from the Pentagon.

On August 22, INTERPOL announced that authorities throughout Africa had arrested over 1,200 suspects and confiscated nearly $100 million in a comprehensive cybercrime operation that dismantled online fraud networks and illegal crypto mining operations.

Hundreds of pages of transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell’s interviews with the US Justice Department have been made public.

A Greenlandic mother’s one-hour-old baby was removed from her by Danish authorities after she underwent “parenting competence” tests – despite a new law banning the use of the controversial psychometric assessments on people with Greenlandic backgrounds.

In an unusual deal with the struggling chipmaker, the U.S. takes a holding in a private company.

Donald Trump asked to keep the World Cup trophy as FIFA’s president brought it to the White House for a special announcement.

Donald Trump has been accused of turning America’s most famous home into a flashy palace filled with extravagance, with Washington insiders describing it as “Versailles meets Vegas.”

The tax commissioner of Cypress filed a criminal indictment on Friday against former directors of a Cypriot company that ultimately benefited the sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Ukraine has targeted a crucial pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline, which delivers fuel from Russia to Europe, halting supplies to Hungary and Slovakia, the only EU member states still receiving Russian oil.

A Czech court has convicted three people and three companies of subsidy fraud and money laundering in a €5.5 million ($6.42 million) scheme involving fabricated nanobot research projects, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Prague said Wednesday.

A Finnish court on Tuesday opened what officials called the country’s largest human trafficking trial, bringing 78 charges against berry company Polarica and its executives, according to state-owned news agency Yle.

Russian authorities have seized $144 million in assets from former Krasnodar regional court chairman Alexander Chernov, in what prosecutors called one of the country’s largest anti-corruption cases.

Frits van Eerd stepped down as Jumbo’s CEO, although he still co-owns the supermarket chain with family members. The company is not involved in the case.

A farmer in Ukraine says he will seek justice at the country’s Supreme Court after he was awarded 70 times less than he sought as compensation for mismanagement in the case of his stolen tractor.

For the second time in a year, an abandoned narco-submarine has washed ashore in the Solomon Islands, baffling authorities and residents alike.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it "deplores" new US sanctions on its judges and prosecutors.

US celebrity judge and social media star Frank Caprio has died aged 88, his family has said.