The Pandora Papers exposed leaked files that tie hundreds of world leaders and celebrities to offshore tax havens hiding assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars aje.io/trpx3e
The Pandora Papers exposed the ties between world leaders, celebrities and sport stars to the hidden world of offshore wealth collectively worth trillions of dollars.
Here is a look at some of those named in the investigation ➡️ aje.io/qsgkdq
Jordan's King Abdullah II is among those named in the Pandora Papers.
Documents show that King Abdullah created a network of offshore companies and tax havens to amass a $100m property empire from Malibu, California to Washington, DC and London aje.io/4czecj
The Pandora Papers also exposed the wealth of allies to Pakistan's PM Imran Khan.
Two members of Khan’s cabinet were prominent in the leaks - alongside more than 700 other Pakistani citizens including donors to his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party aje.io/n9enu2
The Pandora Papers show that Lebanon's recently reappointed billionaire PM Najib Mikati owns a Panama-based offshore company which he used to buy property in Monaco worth $10m.
The findings come as the country faces an economic crisis aje.io/jupsdr
The Pandora Papers suggest the family of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is linked to at least 13 offshore companies.
One of the companies has assets worth at least $30 million ⬇️
In response to the Pandora Papers, Jordan's royal palace says that King Abdullah's properties in the US and UK were "no secret" and that privacy and security reasons were behind not disclosing them ⬇️
Russia has dismissed leaks in the Pandora Papers implicating President Putin as “unsubstantiated claims”.
The investigation shone a light on wealth allegedly amassed by Kremlin-linked individuals aje.io/shj6q3
While not directly named in the Pandora Papers, Pakistan's PM Imran Khan has vowed to investigate Pakistani citizens that have been linked to millions of dollars of offshore dealings, including prominent members of his own cabinet.
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy transferred his stake in a secret offshore company in 2012 just before he was elected.
His office sought to justify those offshore accounts following leaked revelations in the Pandora Papers ➡️ aje.io/eqxcr9
Ex-Hong Kong leaders CY Leung and Tung Chee-hwa were named in the Pandora Papers over the undisclosed sale of company shares and setting up offshore companies to skirt taxes.
Both now serve as senior members of an advisory committee for the Chinese gov't aje.io/dv6bj3
Lebanon PM Mikati says his wealth is legal after Pandora Papers leak reveals he owns an offshore firm in Panama aje.io/nvprur
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Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.
Qatar, Egypt and the US urge Israel and Hamas to conclude a ceasefire agreement that embodies the principles outlined by US President Biden, amid Israel's continuing bombardment of besieged Gaza.
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, has told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is witnessing the worst levels of malnutrition, of child malnutrition especially, worldwide right now.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has denounced far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for threatening to dissolve Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he were to accept President Biden’s new ceasefire deal.
On May 29, South Africans will head to the polls to vote in national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly, which will choose the president for the next 5 years.
Here’s a guide to the elections and major political parties ⤵️
South Africa follows a proportional voting system where parties and candidates compete for 400 seats in the National Assembly.
For the first time, independent candidates will compete in the elections with voters given three ballots instead of two.
Who is in South Africa’s current National Assembly?
South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.
Israel calls the ICJ binding order to immediately stop its attack on Rafah “outrageous, morally repugnant and disgusting” as it continues its war and bombardment of Gaza.
The Elders group of world leaders has said “no country is above the law” and Israel’s “unlawful approach” to its war on Gaza cannot continue following the ICJ’s order to halt attacks on Rafah.
US Senator Bernie Sanders warned the US that if it ignores “crimes against humanity” being committed in Gaza, it will not have the credibility to criticise “the actions of any country, no matter how terrible.”