Global IssuesNews headlines for “Corruption”, page 19
COLOMBIA: Spying Knows No Borders
- Inter Press Service
Venezuela's Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, presented a report Oct. 29, 2009, to his country's National Assembly. That report is believed to have resulted, two days later, in the murder of two people on a farm in neighbouring Colombia, near the capital.
ECUADOR-COLOMBIA: Quito Presses Bogotá on Alleged Spying
- Inter Press Service
The government of Ecuador has issued its third request in eight months to Colombia for complete and detailed information on alleged telephone espionage committed against Ecuador's President Rafael Correa.
U.N. Chief Warns Big Business to Play by Ethical Rules
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is sending a strong message to the world's corporate executives: abide by the rules of social and ethical conduct or risk having your firm named and shamed.
U.S. Private Security in Afghanistan 'Pay Off Warlords, Taliban'
- Inter Press Service
Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan.
CHINA: Strict Gun Control Laws Fail to Curb Violent Crime
- Inter Press Service
China and guns have a long history.
COLOMBIA: Drug Trade's Hold on Football Persists
- Inter Press Service
Football, the most popular sport in Colombia, has been subject to heavy pressures from drug trafficking since the mid-1970s. A new study shows that the illicit trade continues to tarnish the upper echelons of this sport.
Argentine Football Violence Exported to South Africa
- Inter Press Service
No one admits to providing them with support, but hundreds of Argentine football hooligans known as 'barras bravas' flew to South Africa for the World Cup and are threatening to cause disturbances if the football clubs do not get them tickets to the games.
POLITICS: Challenges Temper Optimism as New Premier Vows Reform
- Inter Press Service
Expectations are high for Japan’s new prime minister, Naoto Kan, who has taken over the reins of a country saddled with massive public debt and a domestic furore over the failure of the former head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and newly resigned premier Yukio Hatoyama to deliver on his campaign pledge to move the controversial U.S. military base out of the southern island of Okinawa.
GUATEMALA: Major Setback in Fight Against Corruption
- Inter Press Service
The resignation of the head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Spanish judge Carlos Castresana, due to a lack of government support will make the already Herculean task of fighting corruption and impunity in this Central American country even more complex, human rights groups warn.
MALAYSIA: Planned Subsidy Cut Draws Fire, Seen to Hurt the Poor
- Inter Press Service
The government’s proposal to remove and rationalise subsidies on essential goods and services continues to provoke a storm of criticism from ordinary Malaysians.
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