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Screen grab taken from the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry of former Post Office boss Paula Vennells becoming tearful for a second time whilst giving evidence to the inquiry at Aldwych House, as part of phases five and six of the probe, which is looking at governance, redress and how the Post Office and others responded to the scandal, in central London on Wednesday May 22, 2024. (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry/PA via AP)

Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

The former head of Britain’s Post Office Paula Vennells has broken down in tears on several occasions while giving evidence to an inquiry into one of the country’s biggest miscarriages of justice that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer sy
 
File — A photo of former South African President Nelson Mandela on display at the Nelson Mandela Legacy Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 27, 2013. Today the ruling African National Congress (ANC) faces growing dissatisfaction from many who feel it has failed to live up to its promises. (AP Photo, File)

South Africa election: How Mandela’s once revered ANC lost its way with infighting and scandals

 
FILE - An election poster, with President Cyril Ramaphosa atop a pole in Soweto, South Africa, on April 22, 2024. Ramaphosa has tried to rebuild the reputation of the ANC by cracking down on government graft, but unemployment has risen to 32% under him and he has struggled to curb poverty. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

South Africa braces for what may be a milestone election. Here is a guide to the main players

 
FILE - Ramon Fonseca speaks during an interview at his office in Panama City, April 7, 2016. Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday, May 9, 2024. He was 71. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Ramón Fonseca, partner in firm at center of “Panama Papers” scandal, dies

 
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Kishida acknowledged Tuesday that his governing party's major defeat in the weekend's by-elections was due to a slush fund scandal, but said he would not step down or replace party executives to take responsibility. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s PM Kishida denies he will step down over his party’s loss in special elections

 

Biden praises Kenya for stepping up to aid security in Haiti

President Joe Biden offers his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti. Biden also defends his decision to withhold U.S. forces from the Haiti mission.
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Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

Former UK Post Office boss breaks down in inquiry over scandal that saw hundreds wrongly convicted

South Africa election: How Mandela’s once revered ANC lost its way with infighting and scandal

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Malta’s ex-leader and others plead not guilty in a hospital fraud scandal that is roiling politics

Malta’s former prime minister and other former top officials have pleaded not guilty to charges in a hospital corruption scandal that is roiling the Mediterranean island nation as it prepares for European Parliament elections.
 

Vietnam nominates its public security minister as new president

Vietnam has nominated its Public Security Minister To Lam as its new president, after his predecessor resigned in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign that has shaken up the country’s political establishment.
 
FILE - Team Penske driver Josef Newgarden, right, celebrates his victory with team owner Roger Penske after the IndyCar Grand Prix of St. Petersburg auto race, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Team Penske suffered a humiliating disqualification Wednesday, April 24, when reigning Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden was stripped of his victory in the season-opening race for manipulating his push-to-pass system. Penske teammate Scott McLaughlin, who finished third in the opener on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, was also disqualified. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File)

Analysis: IndyCar cheating scandal risks sullying Roger Penske’s perfect image

Roger Penske’s pristine image in motorsports has taken some hits over the past two weeks. Two of his drivers, Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin, were disqualified from the season-opening race in March because they used push-to-pass software that should not have been available.
 
Japan's governing party, Liberal Democratic Party’s Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi speak to reporters at the party's headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, April 28, 2024. Japan’s governing party, stung by an extensive slush funds scandal, lost all three seats in parliamentary by-elections Sunday in a major setback for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in seeking reelection as his party's leader in the autumn. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s ruling party loses all 3 seats in special vote, seen as punishment for corruption scandal

Japan’s governing party has lost all three seats being contested in parliamentary by-elections Sunday.
 
Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden talks in Birmingham, Ala., Friday, April 26, 2024, about his recent disqualification in the season-opening IndyCar auto race. Newgarden is preparing for Sunday's race at Birmingham's Barber Motorsports Park. (AP Photo/John Zenor)

Star driver Josef Newgarden fights back tears, accepts blame for breaking rules in IndyCar scandal

Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Josef Newgarden is accepted blame for manipulating the push-to-pass system in his season-opening win, calling it an embarrassment.
 
FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Vietnamese Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue shake hands as they pose for a photo at the national assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Vietnamese state media outlet VN Express reports that the head of Vietnam’s Parliament, Vuong Dinh Hue, has resigned. He is the latest member of senior government to leave office amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool, File)

Head of Vietnam’s parliament resigns amid corruption probe

Vietnamese state media outlet VN Express reports that the head of Vietnam’s Parliament, Vuong Dinh Hue, has resigned.
 
FILE _ Will Power, of Australia, talks with a crew member following practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Indianapolis. Power said Thursday, April 25, 2024, he was unaware of any manipulations to Team Penske’s push-to-power system until after last weekend’s IndyCar race at Long Beach and never illegally used the mechanism.. Power finished fourth and while his result was not thrown out, he was docked 10 points and all three Penske drivers were fined $25,000. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Will Power denies participating in Penske cheating scandal. Silence from Josef Newgarden

Will Power says he was unaware of any manipulations to Team Penske’s push-to-power system until after last weekend’s IndyCar race at Long Beach and never illegally used the mechanism.
 
En este bosquejo artístico aparece Salah Al-Ejaili, al frente, derecha, con anteojos, experiodista de Al-Jazeera, ante el tribunal de distrito de Estados Unidos en Alexandria, Virginia, el martes 16 de abril de 2024. Al-Ejaili ha testificado sobre abusos que sufrió cuando estuvo detenido de la prisión de Abu Ghraib, en Irak. (Dana Verkouteren vía AP)

Jury deliberating in Iraq Abu Ghraib prison abuse civil case; contractor casts blame on Army

A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people.
 
This artist sketch depicts Salah Al-Ejaili, foreground with glasses, a former Al-Jazeera journalist, before the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Al-Ejaili, a former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, has described to jurors the type of abuse that is reminiscent of the scandal that erupted there 20 years ago: beatings, being stripped naked and threatened with dogs, stress positions meant to induce exhaustion and pain. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Civilian interrogator defends work at Abu Ghraib, tells jury he was promoted

A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job.
 
FIFA President Ganni Infantino addresses the 78th Conmebol Congress in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

FIFA plans to add slew of new committees years after cutting them in anti-corruption reforms

FIFA is set to create dozens of new committees and expert panels which would reverse a governance reform passed in 2016.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump, center, appears in court for his arraignment, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

Social media searches play central role at jury selection for Trump’s first criminal trial

The jury selection process at the historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump can already credit modern technology for shaping the eventual panel.
 
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings on the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. Trump returned to the courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

First 7 jurors are chosen for Trump’s hush money criminal trial, with 11 more still needed

The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial have been chosen after lawyers grilled members of the jury pool about their social media posts, political views and personal lives.
 
FILE - Adult film actress Stormy Daniels arrives at the adult entertainment fair "Venus" in Berlin, on Oct. 11, 2018. Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Donald Trump to curtail "inflammatory” speech, the former president tested its limits, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, by disparaging Daniels and Michael Cohen, two key witnesses in his upcoming criminal hush money trial as liars.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

How a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump’s first criminal trial

On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, a story came out that Donald Trump feared would cost him votes.
 
FILE - Former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni arrives at the Robert H. Jackson U.S. Court House for a hearing for an upcoming trial on drug and bribery charges, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A federal jury on Friday, April 12, 2024, convicted Bongiovanni of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File)

Jury convicts former DEA agent of obstruction but fails to reach verdict on Buffalo bribery charges

A federal jury has convicted a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents.
 
Juventus' head coach Massimiliano Allegri reacts during the Serie A soccer match between Juventus FC and Fiorentina at the Juventus stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday April 7, 2024. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)

Juventus gearing up for derby but looking to future after ‘year zero’ for the storied team

There are still seven rounds remaining in the Serie A season but Juventus is already looking to the future after what club owner John Elkann termed “year zero” for the storied Italian team.
 
FILE - Former Public Utilities Commissioner of Ohio Sam Randazzo sits inside the courtroom at the Summit County Courthouse in Akron, Ohio, Feb. 13, 2024. Randazzo, the former top utility regulator awaiting trial on charges he took millions in bribes in conjunction with the largest corruption scandal in Ohio's history, died by suicide on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, a spokesperson for the Franklin County Coroner's Office said. (AP Photo/David Dermer, File)

Former Ohio utility regulator, charged in a sweeping bribery scheme, has died

A former top utility regulator awaiting trial on charges he took millions in bribes in conjunction with the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history has died by suicide.
 
FILE - Women gather round the San Bernardo Convent in support of the convent’s cloistered nuns who accused the Archbishop of Salta Mario Antonio Cargnello and other church officials of gender-based psychological and physical violence, in Salta, Argentina, May 3, 2022. An Argentine court ruled on Thursday, April 4, 2024, that Cargnello and three other church officials committed different forms of violence against the cloistered nuns of the convent. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

An Argentine judge recognizes gender abuse suffered for years by 20 nuns in a breakthrough ruling

An Argentine judge has ruled that 20 cloistered nuns had suffered abuse for more than two decades at the hands of high-ranking clergy in a conservative northern province.
 
South Africa's Parliament former speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 4, 2024. Mapisa-Nqakula has been released on bail following her first appearance in court over allegations that she received about $135 000 in bribes. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Former South Africa speaker of parliament is arrested on bribery allegations and released on bail

The former South African speaker of parliament has been arrested over allegations that she received about $135,000 in bribes, in the latest corruption scandal to face the governing African National Congress party.
 
Former Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan walks to the courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, for his trial on corruption charges. Chan was convicted Wednesday, March 27, of racketeering, bribery, fraud and giving false statements to investigators in a sprawling pay-to-play corruption scandal at City Hall. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via AP)

Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan convicted in sprawling bribery case

Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been convicted of racketeering, bribery, fraud and giving false statements to investigators in a sprawling pay-to-play corruption scandal at City Hall.
 
Financial market trader Tom Hayes speaks to the media, with his lawyer Karen Todner, right, outside the Royal Courts Of Justice in London after two former financial market traders convicted of interest rate benchmark manipulation have had bids to clear their names rejected by the Court of Appeal, on Wednesday March 27, 2024. Tom Hayes, 44, a former Citigroup and UBS trader, was found guilty of multiple counts of conspiracy to defraud over manipulating the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) between 2006 and 2010. His case, alongside that of another similarly jailed trader Carlo Palombo, 45, were referred to the court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

A UK financial trader dubbed the ringleader of an interest rate manipulation scandal loses an appeal

A British financial trader described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis has lost his appeal to have his conviction quashed.
 
Longtime California seminary president Jeff Iorg addresses members of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee during a meeting on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Dallas, Texas, where he was named the next president and CEO of the committee. (Adam Covington/Baptist Press via AP)

Southern Baptists pick a California seminary president to lead its troubled administrative body

A top administrative body of the Southern Baptist Convention has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years.
 

Lawsuit in New Mexico alleges abuse by a Catholic priest decades ago

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest in New Mexico in the 1960s sued the church and diocese this week, the latest case to surface in the state as the Roman Catholic Church wrestles with the global clergy sex abuse scandal.
 
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, right, talks with interpreter Will Ireton during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Betting scandal with Ohtani’s interpreter is far from the first in professional sports

Sports and gambling are once again in the spotlight in the wake of the Los Angeles Dodgers firing Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter and close friend of newly acquired star player Shohei Ohtani.
 
FILE - Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong addresses the media during a joint press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after their meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigned after a little over a year in the position, state media VN Express reported. His resignation takes place amid an intense anti-corruption campaign that has hit the highest echelons of the Communist Party. (Richard A. Brooks/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigns amid anti-corruption campaign

The Communist Party says Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after a little over a year in the job.
 
FILE - Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of the German car manufacturer 'Volkswagen', arrives for a questioning at an investigation committee of the German federal parliament in Berlin, Germany on Jan. 19, 2017. Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to go on trial in September on charges of fraud and market manipulation linked to the automaker's diesel emissions scandal, a German court said Friday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Trial of former Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn over diesel scandal set to start in September

A German court says former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn will go on trial in September on charges of fraud and market manipulation linked to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal.
 
FILE = A post office logo on a shop front on a street in London, on Jan. 16, 2024. The British government will introduce legislation Wednesday, March 13, 2024, to quash the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office branch managers in England and Wales who were caught up in one of the U.K.'s biggest miscarriages of justice. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the legislation “marks an important step forward in finally clearing” the names of those who were convicted on the basis of a faulty computer accounting system, known as Horizon, and have faced long delays in having their compensation claims assessed. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Bill to quash hundreds of wrongful convictions over a Post Office scandal goes before UK Parliament

The British government has introduced legislation to quash the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office branch managers in England and Wales who were caught up in one of the United Kingdom’s biggest miscarriages of justice.
 
FILE - Pope Francis waves during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on March 10, 2024. The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy with increasing media coverage, criminal convictions and the launch Monday, Marcg 11, 2024, of an investigative podcast dedicated to a case that tangentially involved Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy abuse case highlights how scandal slowly beginning to come to light in pope’s backyard

The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy. There is increasing media coverage, some criminal convictions and the launch Monday of an investigative podcast dedicated to a case that tangentially involved Pope Francis.
 
FILE - Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on March 6, 2024. Pope Francis sought Thursday to encourage his child protection board to continue helping victims, as new developments underscored that the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal isn’t going away anytime soon. At the Vatican, Francis met with his Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which is expected to soon release the the first-ever audit of safeguarding procedures and policies church-wide. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope meets with child protection board as events outside Vatican show abuse scandal isn’t going away

Pope Francis has met with his child protection board as new developments outside the Vatican underscored that the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal isn’t going away anytime soon.
 
Japan's former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno attends a political ethics committee at parliament in Tokyo Friday, March 1, 2024. Two former Cabinet ministers belonging to Japan’s governing party’s key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds at a political ethics hearing Friday, a day after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s appearance that gave no new details, deepening speculation that the party just wants to get it over with and rush the passage of a budget bill. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan opposition lawmakers bring no-confidence motion accusing gov’t of halting debate over scandal

Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers have submitted a no-confidence motion accusing the governing party of trying to push through a budget bill without adequate debate because of disruptions caused by a scandal over its fund-raising practices.
 
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks about his governing party’s corruption scandal during a political ethics committee at parliament in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

Kishida vows no more fundraising parties at Parliament’s ethics hearing over a funds scandal

Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has renewed his apology and vowed to hold no more fundraising events himself during his leadership as he appeared at a political ethics committee at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership.
 
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