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Island sovereign state off the eastern coast of Africa
The relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is complex, mixing public cordiality and strategic rivalry: Trump has repeatedly praised Putin and sought meetings, while Putin has described r...
Public reporting documents many cases where state assets — from cash to gold and company shares — were illicitly moved abroad into banks, property and shell companies in financial centres such as Swit...
and a National Identification Number (NIN); that legal requirement for a physical identity document is explicit in government materials . The country has layered a national digital identity platform c...
and repeated contacts between Trump campaign associates and n-linked individuals have been corroborated in intelligence assessments, the Mueller special counsel report, and congressional inquiries; th...
Since U.S. energy sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, a “shadow” or “dark” fleet of tankers and opaque intermediaries has moved Venezuelan crude; public reporting and court filings link the cargo and proc...
Yes — the melody of Malaysia’s national anthem, Negaraku, is widely reported to have originated from a popular 19th‑century French song that was known in the Seychelles and later became the Perak stat...
International money laundering and concealment of misappropriated state assets rely on a mix of onshore banks with weak controls, underground banking networks, and classic offshore secrecy jurisdictio...
Regulatory and legal risks for using offshore structures have intensified since the Pandora Papers-era scrutiny: authorities are consolidating cross-border reporting, demanding demonstrable economic s...
Research shows that coral reefs can and have recovered from mass bleaching events like 2016, but recovery is neither uniform nor guaranteed: , while others required decades and depended heavily on man...