Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Governments Across The World Open Probes Over ‘Panama Papers’
By Kylie MacLellan and Elida MorenoLONDON/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies.The “Panama Papers” revealed...
Governments Across The World Open Probes Over ‘Panama Papers’
By Kylie MacLellan and Elida MorenoLONDON/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies.The “Panama Papers” revealed...
Russia: Bringing the World Not Only Military Interventions, But Also Poetry
Russia is a land of great literature — of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Akhmatova. This truth, that we all learned in high school, has recently been reconfirmed in a startling and compelling manner. For it is only in Russia that a highly-placed political figure can address the public with a lyric poem, as did Ms. Maria Zakharova, the...
What You Need To Know About The Panama Papers Leak
Several world leaders are under fire after a consortium of journalists on Sunday revealed their ties to a Panamanian law firm that helped some of the world’s richest and most powerful people conceal their wealth through tax havens and offshore companies.The revelations are based on the “Panama Papers,” 11.5 million leaked...
Are Kerry & Lavrov Creating Solutions for Crises?
The fragility of breakthroughs in the many crises afflicting the Arab region does not necessarily mean the breakthroughs are transient. Rather, this fragility must invite more local, regional, and international resolve so that the available opportunities become plausible and serious policies and solutions. Some of what is happening in the Libyan,...
Are Kerry & Lavrov Creating Solutions for Crises?
The fragility of breakthroughs in the many crises afflicting the Arab region does not necessarily mean the breakthroughs are transient. Rather, this fragility must invite more local, regional, and international resolve so that the available opportunities become plausible and serious policies and solutions. Some of what is happening in the Libyan,...
Weekend Roundup: Preventing ‘Madmen’ From Getting Their Hands On Nuclear Material
A weighty question loomed large for world leaders who gathered in Washington this week for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit: could terrorists obtain dangerous nuclear material? “There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they most certainly would use it to kill as many innocent...
Weekend Roundup: Preventing ‘Madmen’ From Getting Their Hands On Nuclear Material
A weighty question loomed large for world leaders who gathered in Washington this week for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit: could terrorists obtain dangerous nuclear material? “There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they most certainly would use it to kill as many innocent...
Weekend Roundup: Preventing ‘Madmen’ From Getting Their Hands on Nuclear Material
A weighty question loomed large for world leaders who gathered in Washington this week for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit: could terrorists obtain dangerous nuclear material? “There is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material, they most certainly would use it to kill as many innocent...
If the West Doesn’t Act on Ukraine Reform, the Country Could Break Down
KIEV, Ukraine — “No, I won’t exchange your hryvnias back to dollars — unless you have the receipt I gave you a week ago when you first arrived,” says the lady at the currency exchange in the Kiev airport. Discouraged, we take our hryvnias with us back to the United States. That’s right: two years since the...
