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British mercenaries linked to brutal crackdown on left-wing activists in Sri Lanka
By Phil Miller
British mercenaries were active in Sri Lanka for up to a year longer than previously thought, Declassified has found.
The company for which they worked, Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), kept an intelligence officer…
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How 1MDB fugitive Jho Low tried to bargain for his freedom
By Mary Ann Jolley
Malaysia’s $4.5bn 1MDB scandal brought down the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, and in July saw him convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail, subject to an appeal, in the first of several trials over…
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Parents of 545 children separated at the border cannot be found
By Caitlin Dickerson
Radio spots are airing throughout Mexico and Central America. Court-appointed researchers are motor-biking through rural hillside communities in Guatemala and showing up at courthouses in Honduras to conduct public…
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Controversial Mauritius ship to tow broken supertanker New Diamond
By Nishan Degnarain
The Panama- flag oil supertanker that had an explosion off the coast of Sri Lanka earlier this month, the MT New Diamond, is being helped by a controversial support vessel that led the operation to deliberately sink…
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Banks suspected illegal activity, but processed big transactions anyway
By Noam Scheiber and Emily Flitter
A cache of thousands of reports that major banks filed with federal regulators shows that they helped suspected terrorists, drug dealers and corrupt foreign officials move trillions of dollars around…
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How the hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fell into a vengeful strongman’s trap
By Abdi Latif Dahir, Declan Walsh, Matina Stevis Gridneff and Ruth Maclean
KIGALI — As the manager of a five-star hotel where 1,268 people sheltered from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina was known for his cool head — a…
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