Political corruption

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been charged, along with his father and three top aides, with racketeering, extortion, taking kickbacks and attempting to personally enrich themselves through the mayor’s high office. The case is one of the biggest corruption indictments in Detroit history. Jerome Vaughn, news director from affiliate station, WDET, says the list […]

Chinese officials are on a very public anti-corruption campaign — and they seem to think “House of Cards” shows they are not alone in their troubles. Meanwhile, in Russia, an anti-corruption official suddenly jumps out a window to his death, while being interrogated. Fishy? And Eid might become a school holiday. That and more in today’s Global Scan.Chinese officials are on a very public anti-corruption campaign — and they seem to think “House of Cards” shows they are not alone in their troubles. Meanwhile, in Russia, an anti-corruption official suddenly jumps out a window to his death, while being interrogated. Fishy? And Eid might become a school holiday. That and more in today’s Global Scan.

A week of unrest has shaken Bosnia-Hercegovina. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil war there, people have had enough of government corruption and incompetence.

Unlike the vast majority of politicians in India, Arvind Kejriwal doesn’t belong to a political dynasty. He’s a mechanical engineer by trade, and now Delhi’s new chief minister.

Chile’s military coup happened 40 years ago on Wednesday — Sept. 11, 1973. The brutal repression imprisoned thousands, including some in the national soccer stadium. That soccer stadium would play a pivotal role in the coup, from the early days of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.