Authorities accused Anin and his former colleague Ekaterina Fomina of disseminating false information on the Russian Armed Forces.

International drug lord Christopher Kinahan Sr. was involved in an audacious bid to purchase a fleet of Egyptian military transport planes as he sought a safe haven and new bases close to ...

Jordanian protesters took to the streets – again – demanding an end to corruption and poverty in the aid-dependent Middle Eastern monarchy. Masked police broke up the demonstrations and jailed critics ...

Muslims worldwide have been flocking to a mobile file-sharing application called Zapya, developed by a Beijing-based startup that encourages users to download the Quran and share religious teachings ...

Picasso’s ‘Women of Algiers (Version O)’ sold for nearly $179 After a chance discovery, the grandson of a Jewish art dealer learned that a valuable painting he believed the Nazis had looted from his ...

Dubai’s man-made Palm Jumeirah archipelago. In 2018, the son of the president of the island nation of Comoros was back home in the capital city of Moroni and looking to make a buck. Nour El Fath Azali ...

On a chilly afternoon in the spring of 2021, while awaiting an extradition hearing in Bordeaux, France, Businessman H. received an unexpected call from an old friend and business partner. Jack Ma was ...

Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny ...

In 2015, the U.S. Department of Treasury hired an economist named Owen Zidar as a contractor to help a team of government officials examine a problem of growing urgency. The ultrawealthy were ...

The President Obiang Nguema International Airport lies outside the small town of Mongomeyen in the middle of the tropical rainforest of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African petrostate. A ...

Guo Jian took notes as Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, speaker for the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, met with pro-democracy activists in 2017 in Dharamshala, India, and discussed China’s repressive policies ...

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian ...