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  • Odebrecht agrees to pay $220 million fine, aid Panama probe

    ARGENTINA, 2017/08/02 Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht [ODBES.UL] agreed to pay $220 million in fines and will cooperate with investigators probing bribes of Panamanian officials, the Central American country's attorney general said on Tuesday. The fine included $100 million for using the banking system for illicit activities, said Panama's attorney general, Kenia Porcell.
  • Colombian Congress endorses revised peace agreement

    COLOMBIA, 2016/12/03 Following a two‑day voting process, on November 30th Congress validated the revised peace agreement signed on November 24th between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the leftist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. The overwhelming vote in favour was surrounded by some legal uncertainty and ongoing popular debate.
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.