Feb 26, 2026, 5:24 p.mFeb 26, 2026, 5:37 p.m The US Money Laundering Authority classifies the Zurich-based MBaer Merchant Bank as a “primary risk for money laundering”. The Swiss financial market supervisory authority Finma is now appointing an audit officer at the bank following an enforcement procedure. The US authority FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) […]
Continue ReadingMandelson’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has previously said he was wrong to have continued his association with Epstein, who died in 2019, and apologized “unequivocally” to Epstein’s victims. Mandelson has said none of the Epstein emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice “indicate wrongdoing or misdemeanor on […]
Continue ReadingUS Ambassador Charles Kushner is at the centre of a diplomatic row raging in Paris, but he is not the only one. US President Donald Trump’s envoys are stirring controversy across Europe – from social media spats to public snubs of foreign leaders – testing alliances and leaving longtime partners to pick up the pieces.
Continue ReadingAccording to IMF forecasts, the per capita income of Poland, calculated in PPP, was around €49,650 last year. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING This number is slightly higher than Spain’s, which is estimated at approximately €49,465. Per capita income calculated in PPP adjusts a country’s GDP per capita to account for differences in the cost of living, enabling […]
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Police officers have arrested a 50-year-old Burundian man linked to a top general in connection with the murder of three Italian missionary nuns in Burundi’s commercial capital Bujumbura more […]
Continue ReadingActress Lindsay Lohan has said she looks back at being under the spotlight when she was younger and asks “why didn’t anyone just go and take me out of there, protect me more?” The Mean Girls star told Vogue Arabia about moving to Dubai in 2014 and meeting her husband, Kuwaiti financier Bader Shammas, there. […]
Continue ReadingSONDAGE Cluster 17 x POLITICO. Quelques jours après la mort de Quentin Deranque, la ville est polarisée entre les soutiens du maire sortant Ecologiste, Grégory Doucet, et ceux de l’ancien président de l’Olympique lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas. Feb 19 3 mins read
Continue ReadingFeb 26, 2026, 4:42 p.mFeb 26, 2026, 4:42 p.m On February 23, a former referee and former coach of women’s football teams was sentenced in court to a seven-month suspended prison sentence. He coached women at SCR Altach in Austria. There he filmed the players with hidden cameras in the dressing rooms and showers. Now […]
Continue ReadingGreek political parties have clashed over the affair for years, as an expanding list of cases revealed the highly invasive surveillance tool on the phones of opposition politicians, government ministers, military officials, journalists and business executives. The Greek government has denied using the illegal spyware. On Thursday, the court found four defendants guilty of “breaching […]
Continue ReadingOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Russia has issued a stark warning that any deployment of British troops in Ukraine would prolong the conflict, rather than bring it to an end. The statement from Moscow […]
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