Jailed former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato, who is serving a 4.5-year sentence for misuse of funds, is to be moved to a semi-open prison regime, a Spanish court said Thursday. The National Court announcement came two days after Rato was acquitted in another case of fraud and falsifying the books during the 2011 flotation of […]

US President Donald Trump has been the world’s biggest driver of Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic, a study from Cornell University, partly funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said Thursday. A team from the Cornell Alliance for Science evaluated 38 million articles published by English-language, traditional media worldwide between January 1 and May 26 of […]

UNICEF on Wednesday became the third UN agency to launch an internal inquiry into sexual abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), promising “serious consequences” for any culprits. The children’s fund said in a statement it was “appalled that people who identify as UNICEF workers have reportedly committed abuse against vulnerable women […]

Sierra Leonean anti-corruption investigators requested to interview ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday, a spokesman said, after the government pledged to recover funds allegedly embezzled under his watch. The move follows the end of a year-long graft probe into Koroma and his former ministers in March, which found that funds worth tens of millions of dollars remain […]

The United States Commission on Presidential Debates said Wednesday it will enact new measures to “maintain order” at upcoming events after President Donald Trump and rival Joe Biden’s toxic Cleveland showdown. “Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining (two) debates to ensure a more orderly […]