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The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) suspended Gabon’s membership after a coup removed President Ali Bongo.

President Zelensky announced Defence Minister Reznikov will be replaced amid the struggling counteroffensive and mounting corruption scandals.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear to Breitbart News on Friday that if House Republicans move forward with an impeachment inquiry into Democrat President Joe Biden, the move would come not as an announcement from him or anyone else, but from a formal vote on the floor of the House.

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on corruption charges.

Former OPEC president Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences, the UK National Crime Agency said on Tuesday.

Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was charged with lying to parliament, the penalty for which is three years in prison.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) told Breitbart News that U.S. prosecutor David Weiss’s appointment as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation “epitomizes the level of corruption” in President Joe Biden’s administration.

Angry Chinese citizens this week defied massive government propaganda, and challenged China’s vast army of censors, to blame state policies and mismanagement for deaths from typhoon flooding.

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Saturday within minutes of a court sentencing him in absentia to three years in prison on corruption charges.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates misled the press in 2020 when he denied that a meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi in 2015 took place — a meeting that was confirmed last week.

Devon Archer, former business partner of Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, confirmed to Congress what Breitbart News reported in October 2020: that then-Vice President Biden met with Hunter’s associates from Kazakhstan at Café Milano in 2014.

Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that President Joe Biden is the “most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) spoke to Breitbart News about House Republicans’ various investigations into President Joe Biden and his family and said any American “should be really, really concerned if the President of the United States is compromised by a foreign entity.”

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in West Palm Beach, Florida, Bongino discussed the logistics of “Cocaine-Gate” from the perspective of someone who used to work for Secret Service, and pressed his former employer not to become corrupt like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Former President Donald Trump believes President Joe Biden’s family corruption is “100 times bigger than Watergate,” according to his prepared remarks for an address at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, just days after an IRS whistleblower made shocking revelations about the Biden family.

The office of radical socialist Honduran President Xiomara Castro said on Wednesday that control of the national prison system will be transferred to the military police for at least one year.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while institutions aren’t fundamentally corrupt, “our institutions are frail and faltering,” but they are “worthy of respect. And a lot of the people who are prosecutors in the Department of

L.A. City Council member Curren Price, who represents the central 9th district, was arrested Tuesday on multiple charges of corruption — the latest local official to be accused of such crimes.

Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection to a police corruption probe concerning the finances of the leftist Scottish National Party.

A provincial North Korean government official told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Friday that subjects of the psychotic dictatorship are increasingly critical of police corruption, and in dozens of cases, police officers have been physically confronted or assaulted.

Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.

Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ) held a meeting in his Washington, DC, office in 2018 with a New Jersey businessman who is at the center of a federal corruption probe into the senator, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Wednesday that his government is considering a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party of Imran Khan.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Friday denounced a “reign of terror” by the successor he wishes to unseat, Shehbaz Sharif, as police searched his home for dozens of terrorism suspects he was allegedly harboring. 

Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), voted on Thursday to convict former President Fernando Collor de Mello on corruption and money laundering charges.

The head of Ukraine’s supreme court has reportedly been detained on corruption charges, reports on Wednesday have claimed.

A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on a conviction for corruption.

The House panel investigating the Biden family’s business deals recently announced that it has already found over $10 million in payments from foreign sources going to more than 20 LLCs set up while Joe Biden was vice president. And the committee’s work is just beginning.

Imran Khan, the former Pakistani prime minister who is running for another term despite dozens of corruption cases pending against him, called for nationwide protests on Saturday night.

The New York Times covered Wednesday’s revelations by the House Oversight Committee of a broad scheme of influence-peddling by Joe Biden by declaring Republicans found “no evidence of wrongdoing” by the president.

Pakistanis living in North America held rallies on Tuesday to protest the arrest of former prime minister and current candidate Imran Khan in Islamabad, with an especially large demonstration held in Toronto.

“Stolen” African artefacts returned by the progressive West to the Nigerian government have now disappeared, experts say.

Islamist former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested outside the High Court in Islamabad on Tuesday.

A federal jury on Thursday found failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum not guilty of lying to the FBI in a corruption case that involved the alleged illegal use of campaign funds. 

On the latest episode of the Drill Down podcast, the president of OpenTheBooks.com told co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers that the Newsoms may have reached a new low in feeding at the public trough.

Los Angeles City Council member Mark Ridley-Thomas was convicted Thursday of federal corruption charges in a case where evidence linking Mayor Karen Bass to the case had emerged during investigation.