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Paradise Papers: Tax haven secrets of ultra-rich exposed –
A huge new leak of financial documents has revealed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy, including the Queen’s private estate, secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens. Donald Trump’s commerce secretary is shown to have a stake in a firm dealing with Russians sanctioned by the US. The leak, dubbed the Paradise Papers, contains 13.4m documents, mostly from one leading firm in offshore finance. [BBC]
Other News Stories –
Business and economy
- 2017 Saudi Arabian anti-corruption arrests
- Investors react poorly to the arrest of Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the world’s wealthiest men. (BBC)
International relations
- Japan–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump visits Japan amidst the 2017 North Korea crisis. (CNN)
- Foreign relations of Saudi Arabia; Foreign relations of Lebanon
- Saudi Arabia says Lebanon has declared war against it through acts of aggression. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Immigration to the United States, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
- United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions intends on stripping the U.S. citizenship of four Somali Americans allegedly abusing the Diversity Immigrant Visa by pretending to be a family. The Trump Administration earlier said it plans to scrap the visa program. (Washington Free Beacon)
- The United States Department of Homeland Security announces that it will end temporary protected status for thousands of Nicaraguan migrants while decisions await for thousands more from El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras. (BuzzFeed)
Politics and elections
- Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is narrowly ousted in a vote of no confidence by 27 to 23 votes. (Radio New Zealand International)
- Icelandic parliamentary election, 2017
- Left-Green Movement leader Katrín Jakobsdóttir fails to form a government after the breakdown of talks with her proposed four-party coalition. (Sky News)
- Politics of Zimbabwe
- Emmerson Mnangagwa is fired as Vice President by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe. The public and the media widely perceives Mugabe’s wife Grace as his likely successor after his death with Mnangagwa having been seen as her rival. (The Guardian)
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