Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following his speech to the European Parliament last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was accused of turning Hungary ...

It’s no secret that many governments globally don’t always operate with the best interests of their citizens at heart. These ...

While the United States has always been ideologically opposed to authoritarianism, the U.S. has a strong history of supporting corrupt regimes through weapons transfers. Since 2021, the U.S. has sold ...

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Corruption is one of the most powerful factors that reinforces global inequality, economic instability, and political unrest. Each year, Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ...

Hungary’s descent in Transparency’s annual index over the last decade has pushed it into a different league of corruption, placing it now among countries such as Burkina Faso, South Africa and Cuba.

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Africa's fight against corruption is showing signs of recovery after years of setbacks, with several countries strengthening ...

Pan Amazon countries experience high levels of corruption across their judiciary, which prevents them from creating substantial legal reforms. In Andean countries, environmental crimes are committed ...

No country is free of public corruption, a scourge that has wide-ranging effects on the lives of billions of people. But in 2015, more countries saw drops in corruption than those that saw gains, ...