A couple of weeks ago, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, sacked the country’s Attorney-General, Sally Quillian Yates, for giving a direct order to her staff to ignore...
The US justice department has filed a court motion against the suspension of President Trump's travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim nations. The move seeks to reverse Friday's ruling by a...
President Donald Trump's immigration executive order has led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of US visas, officials say. A US government lawyer told a Virginia court 100,000 visas had been...
British engineering giant Rolls-Royce will pay £671m to settle corruption cases with UK and US authorities. The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) found conspiracy to corrupt or failure to prevent...
Japanese car parts maker Takata has agreed to pay $1bn (£820m) in penalties in the US for concealing dangerous defects in its exploding airbags. The firm also pleaded guilty to a single criminal...
Chicago police showed racial bias and a "pattern" of excessive use of force, the US Justice Department has found. Justice Department officials on Friday released a scathing report after a year-long...
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, 69, also...
Brazil's biggest construction firm, Odebrecht, has admitted in the US to bribing officials to secure contracts. The company and Brazilian petrochemical firm, Braskem, have agreed to pay at least...
Volkswagen has struck a deal with the US authorities over some 80,000 VW, Audi and Porsche cars with 3-litre diesel engines. The agreement is another step towards allowing the German car maker to put...
The row over Hillary Clinton's emails has been rumbling on for months and has now suddenly blown up again. Donald Trump is calling it "criminal" and polls suggest her lead has been severely damaged....
Leonardo DiCaprio has offered to help US authorities in their corruption probe into Malaysia's state fund 1MDB. Both the Hollywood actor's charity foundation and his movie The Wolf of Wall Street...
Three men have been charged with plotting to bomb Somali immigrants at an apartment building and mosque in the US state of Kansas. Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47,...
The US has put sanctions on a Chinese firm and four executives over allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions. Dandong Hongxiang is accused of acting on behalf of a North Korean bank that is on a...
A police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor has said. District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler has filed first-degree...
In this 21st century, Africa does not have dynamic leaders that can meaningfully challenge adverse world policies affecting its people on the continent or in the diaspora. There is no equivalence of...
