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Japan's yakuza gang wars

May 7, 2013 06:00
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KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Visibly nervous, the chairman of a local construction company asks that we lower our voices at the lunch table, and that his name is withheld from publication. People are listening, he says, and this neighborhood is the territory of one particularly violent faction of "yakuza," the powerful criminal underworld of Japan.

The CIA has paid tens of millions of dollars to the Afghan president's office over the last decade

Michael Kelley, Business InsiderApril 29, 2013 11:50
The CIA has been dropping off hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in cash at the offices of Afghan President Hamid Karzai every month or so since January 2003, current and former advisers to Karzai told Matthew Rosenberg of The New York Times. And instead of translating into influence for the Agency, American officials told the Times, the tens of millions of dollars in "ghost money" has undermined U.S. strategy by fueling corruption and empowering warlords.

The most corrupt countries 2012 (PHOTOS)

December 6, 2012 07:00
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Some 70 percent of the world is seen as more corrupt than good, according to the new 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Inside Montreal’s mafia wars

November 9, 2012 07:00
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TORONTO — It's been over 30 years since Canada's last mob war, but a string of murders in recent times shows that things are heating up again.

South African court allows Jacob Zuma corruption case review

March 20, 2012 11:16
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JOHANNESBURG — A South African court ruled today that President Jacob Zuma's corruption case can be reviewed.
February 3, 2012 11:40
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Yet another minister resigns from Brazil government

Mario Negromonte is the seventh minister to resign under allegations of corruption under Rousseff
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attends a ceremony at a base for Brazilian UN Peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince on Febuary 1, 2012. Rousseff arrived in Haiti Wednesday for talks on economic ties and immigration. AFP PHOTO/Thony BELIZAIRE (Photo credit should read THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images) (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A seventh minister has resigned from the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff amid charges of corruption.
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