How climate change skepticism held a government captive
In her new book, reporter Marian Wilkinson uncovers the network of politicians, business leaders and others who have wielded huge influence over Australia’s climate policy for more than two decades. May 11, 2021 Australia’s then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (center) takes part in a press conference with Scott Morrison (left) and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg at the Parliament House in Canberra on August 20, 2018.
In late April this year, at a global summit arranged to coincide with Earth Day, United States President Joe Biden announced ambitious new goals for tackling climate change, and set a challenge for all other nations to do the same.
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Indian reporters find new ways to expose ‘vaccine inequity’ and COVID-19 data
ICIJ partners have had to innovate and adapt how they uncover critical information on the crisis, while calling for more government transparency. May 11, 2021 Journalist Barkha Dutt reports from Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi on June 12, 2020, after authorities eased restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dutt has driven the length and breadth of India, 23,000 kilometers over more than 100 days, to tell how the country’s poor have suffered in the pandemic.
In early 2021, reporters at The Indian Express had just begun to go back to the newsroom for occasional small meetings after nearly a year of working remotely, when news about India’s “double mutant,” a coronavirus variant, started to spread.
Reporting from Moscow
Sergei Roldugin is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest friend. They met when Putin was training to become a KGB officer at school, where Roldugin’s brother was one of Putin’s classmates. Roldugin introduced Putin to his future wife, Lyudmila, and the couple made him the godfather of their eldest daughter in 1985.
“He is simply like a brother to me,” Roldugin said in Putin’s biography, “From the First Person,” published in 2000 just months after Putin assumed his first presidency.
While many of Putin’s former KGB colleagues and summer home neighbors followed him to Moscow, assuming key government jobs and controlling entire sectors of the Russian economy, Roldugin stayed out of sight. The 64-year-old cellist teaches at the St. Petersburg conservatory, manages a charity that helps talented children, and occasionally conducts the orchestras of the Mariinsky opera and ballet theater that was founded by Catherine the Great.
How America Became the Money
Laundering Capital of the World
The U.S. is the venue of choice for cartels and kleptocrats. Now lawmakers want to use an agency called FinCEN to do something about it.
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May 7, 2021
In March, federal agents raided the Beverly Hills premises of a company called U.S. Private Vaults. According to a subsequent grand jury indictment, U.S. Private Vaults was a money laundering operation where drug dealers and others could anonymously stash fentanyl, guns, and “huge stacks of $100 bills” in safe deposit boxes. U.S. Private Vaults didn’t really bother to hide its business, boasting in ads, “We don’t even want to know your name.” It also shared its strip mall storefront with Gold Business, which allegedly specialized in laundering drug money via purchases of gold.
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