Sport

Former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb facing life ban from football

Disgraced former CONCACAF president Jeffery Webb is facing a lifetime ban from all football-related activity after FIFA’s ethics committee opened up

4 May 2016

Brazil

Brazil's top prosecutor requests probe into Dilma Rousseff's role in Petrobras scandal

Brazil's Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, has requested the Supreme Court open an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff as part of a massive probe into corruption at the state-run oil firm Petro

4 May 2016

World News

Will Michel Platini be back in charge for Euro 2016?

The suspended UEFA president must wait to see if a second appeal against his six-year FIFA ban has been successful

29 April 2016

South Africa

South African court paves way for Zuma to face renewed corruption charges

South Africa’s High Court has ordered a review of a decision in 2009 to drop nearly 800 corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, saying the move that

29 April 2016

Luxembourg

Tax leaks trial begins in Luxembourg

The trial has begun of a French journalist and two former staff of accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers who are accused of leaking details of

26 April 2016

Iraq

Supporters of cleric Al Sadr protest in Iraqi capital Baghdad

This is central Baghdad. Supporters of influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered in central Baghdad to protest against what they say is rampant

26 April 2016

Luxembourg

Trial begins of 'LuxLeaks' whistleblowers

Two former employees of the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) go on trial today in Luxembourg along with a French journalist. Antoine

25 April 2016

World News

Moldova: anti-government protests continue

Around 1,000 demonstrators clashed with Moldovan riot police on Sunday in a further escalation of anti-government protests. They are against what

25 April 2016

Brazil

To impeach or not to impeach? Zero hour for Dilma Rousseff

The day has arrived for Dilma Rousseff to learn her fate. This evening (April 17), Brazil’s lower house of Congress – the Chamber of Deputies – is to

17 April 2016

Republic of North Macedonia

Presidential pardons amid wiretap scandal draws protests in Skopje

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) special prosecutor said on Thursday (April 15) she would continue investigating a wiretapping

14 April 2016

Argentina

Argentina: Fernández de Kirchner says court case is 'political persecution'

Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has refused to testify in court over claims of state fraud when she was in office

14 April 2016

Brazil

Brazilian corruption probe claims another political scalp

Brazilian police arrested former senator Gim Argello as part of a two-year corruption investigation. The so-called “Operation CarWash” probe is

13 April 2016

United Kingdom

Cameron: who said what and when

UK Prime Minister admits he did not handle the Panama Papers revelation well

9 April 2016

Ukraine

Ukrainian activists protest against police corruption

Ukrainian activists burned tyres and confronted police outside a presidential office in Kyiv to protest against corruption in the justice system

8 April 2016

Brazil

Brazil: President Rousseff pushed one step closer to impeachment

‘Minimal indications’ of wrongdoing exist to put Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial for corruption, according to a report by Congressman

7 April 2016

Brazil

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff squares up for impeachment battle

A defiant President Dilma Rousseff has said no to a cabinet reshuffle, ignoring calls for changes which could have boosted her political support and

6 April 2016

Iceland

'Panama Papers' push Iceland's PM to resign

Iceland’s under pressure prime minister,Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has tendered his resignation after his family’s offshore investments were revealed in

6 April 2016

Germany

International finance chiefs call for transparency following offshore scandal

More transparency is called for by financial chiefs Reforms were already underway Panama Papers are a media witch hunt Transparency and reform –

5 April 2016

United Kingdom

British PM denies any offshore interests

British Prime Minister David Cameron has denied he or his family gain any additional income from offshore funds. #panamapapers leak spells the 'end

5 April 2016

World News

FIFA chief, Gianni Infantino, dragged into Panama Papers scandal

He was elected as head of FIFA with a promise to clean up football’s world governing body. Yet files seen by the Guardian newspapers in the Panama

5 April 2016