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  1. How China turns members of its diaspora into spiesDec 26, 2024 ... AMONG EXILED Chinese dissidents, Tang Yuanjun was well known. He had participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and landed in prison as a result. He later defected to Taiwan, swimming to on
  2. Trump fails to get hush-money conviction dismissedDec 17, 2024 ... A view from elsewhere Mr Trump’s return is a “revolution”, wrote Nicolas Baverez in Le Figaro, a centre-right French newspaper. The president-elect has “four objectives”: restoring America’s global
  3. The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis’s last big actDec 12, 2024 ... The statute gives prosecutors an edge by relaxing the rules on who can be charged and what evidence can be brought. “If you bring a RICO case, almost everybody should be serving time,” says Chris Timm
  4. Binyamin Netanyahu is in court again in IsraelDec 12, 2024 ... The small but noisy groups of protesters shouting at each other outside the Tel Aviv District Court on December 10th agreed on one thing. It was absurd for the man running a country, with wars on seve
  5. Scamming the scammersNov 2, 2024 ... As criminal operations become more sophisticated scamming has grown into a huge and lucrative business. Americans are estimated to have lost a staggering $12.5 billion to cyber fraud last year, accord
  6. A tax-evasion scandal draws in Hamburg’s elitesNov 19, 2020 ... AT THE VERY last minute, the lawyers of Christian S tried to stop his trial, arguing that the 77-year-old former bigwig with M.M. Warburg, one of Germany’s oldest private banks, was too frail to atten
  7. Donald Trump tries to get his felony charges dismissedDec 4, 2024 ... Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the judge overseeing his hush-money case in New York, in which he was convicted o
  8. If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it in SwedenDec 5, 2024 ... THe aim, says Erik Nord, head of a team of detectives in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city, is “to get a grip on the situation”. Police are certainly getting a grip on something. In the week af
  9. Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinnersOct 31, 2024 ... Pity the California taxman. The state has a yawning budget deficit, which politicians are attempting to narrow. Local laws make it difficult to raise taxes, requiring a two-thirds majority. Worse, onc
  10. Evasion and wasteMar 23, 2011 ... BRITAIN's budgets tend to contain a whole host of fiddly measures that are designed to appeal to particular interest groups but are often far less substantial in their application than they sound in t