WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday his government would fight corruption and work to be a good partner in the U.S. war strategy while urging allies to be patient if his country could not assume security responsibilities soon.
TURIN, Italy - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi goes back on trial for corruption on Friday, while in an unrelated Mafia case, a mobster-turned-witness may try to link him to the Cosa Nostra. The 73-year-old conservative prime minister and
FRANKFURT - The German industrial conglomerate MAN could face up to 300 million euros in fines, costs and fiscal sanctions stemming from a corruption affair, a press report said on Monday. A MAN spokesman told AFP the amount was just speculation,
JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday sidestepped advice from his own fact-finding team to punish senior law enforcers over a huge corruption scandal that has gripped the nation. The liberal ex-general has been under int
KABUL President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a second term Thursday morning in a ceremony in which he made peace and reconciliation his top priorities and said he wanted Afghans to assume control of their own security by the end of his five-year t
A Russian lawyer jailed after uncovering evidence of police involvement in the theft of $230 million from the government has died in prison, officials said Tuesday, and his American partner is accusing the authorities of killing him.Sergei Magnitsky
MANILA - The United States is concerned about corruption and poor governance in Afghanistan and has raised those issues with the administration of President Hamid Karzai, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday. But Clinton declined to
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