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The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.

Middle East. Prince Andrew hasn't exactly had a great December, or decade, when it comes to royal scandals. Following Andrew's forced withdrawal from the King's Christmas lunch and his decision to skip the Sandringham holidays due to the Duke of York's alleged ties to Chinese spy Yango Tengbo, it appears that the only people standing by him are his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, as quoted in a report by Marie Claire. According to the Daily Beast, Prince Andrew's predicament has gotten so bad that some of his friends are even considering leaving the nation.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner had alleged that personal information of some users was being disclosed to Facebook's personality quiz app, This is Your Digital Life, as part of the broader scandal. The breaches were first reported by the Guardian in early 2018, and Facebook received fines from regulators in the United States and the UK in 2019.

Prince Andrew won't join royals for Christmas dinner, following the Chinese spy scandal. It is understood that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson will not be dining with the rest of the Royal Family on Christmas dinner, as quoted in a report by Metro. Since his connections to a suspected Chinese spy were first made public, the Duke of York has come under increased scrutiny. MI5 banned Yang Tengbo, the suspected spy, from the UK last week because of the possible security risk. Prior to publicly revealing his name in order to refute the accusations made against him, he was subject to an anonymity order known only as H6. According to reports, Prince Andrew has now decided not to celebrate Christmas with the rest of the Royal Family this year. The Duke claimed on Friday that he had ceased all contact with Tengbo after receiving advice from officials and that he had never spoken to him about anything sensitive.

Yoon Suk Yeol rose from public prosecutor to the nation's highest office in just a few years, but as president he staggered from scandal to scandal before plunging the country into crisis by declaring martial law. The lurch back to South Korea's dark days of military rule only lasted a few hours, and after a night of protests and high drama last week Yoon was forced into a U-turn. But polls show a huge majority of citizens want him out and lawmakers voted Saturday to impeach him. He is now the third South Korean president to be impeached by parliamentary vote, and if upheld by the Constitutional Court would be the second to be removed from office.

NFL is reportedly reassessing its partnership with the company of Jay-Z named Roc Nation following the extremely shocking allegations linking him to a sexual assault incident involving Sean Diddy Combs, reported The US Sun. According to The US Sun, the lawsuit which was actually filed by an unnamed woman claims that both men participated in the assault at a party in the year 2000 when she was just 13 years old. While Sean Diddy Combs is currently lodged in jail awaiting his trial for racketeering and sex trafficking, this is the very first time Jay-Z has been publicly implicated in any allegations against him. Also Read: Dexter: Original Sin: Check confirmed premiere date, time, episode schedule and where to watch

Attorneys for Meta shareholders are asking a Delaware judge to sanction former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and fellow Facebook board member and current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients for deleting emails related to the Cambridge Anal...

Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse Portia de Rossi's decision to relocate to the UK is related to their marital difficulties as they seek a fresh start, according to reports. The couple left the country after the outcome of the most recent US presidential election. But Ellen DeGeneres's career scandal appears to have put her marriage to Portia de Rossi to the test, leading them to move to freshen things up. According to a report by Blast, DeGeneres and de Rossi had marital problems prior to moving overseas, but they decided to stick together and defend their union.

Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in corporate fraud and greed in America after it went bankrupt in 2001, is coming back

bribery scandal involving the Adani Group that has come to light in the U.S. According to sources, the state government is not in favor of canceling the deal due to the legal complexities it would entail. Instead, it is considering the possibility of setting up the solar power plant within Andhra Pradesh, which would significantly lower transmission costs. A senior minister in the state government highlighted that if the power were available locally with minimal transmission costs, the rate of Rs 2.49 per unit would be reasonable.

Adani Green Energy following the US indictment for alleged bribery to win contracts. According to highly-placed state government sources, Andhra Pradesh is considering writing to Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) to cancel the power purchase agreement (PPA) signed with Adani Green Energy and recommend a probe by a central investigative agency. Other options being considered include formation of a Cabinet sub-committee to examine the charges of bribery and keep the power supply agreement (PSA) signed with SECI in abeyance. The third option is to completely scrap the PSA. Sources said that the state government is veering towards the option of writing to the SECI and ask it to scrap the PPA. The PPA under scrutiny involves the Andhra Pradesh government's procurement of 7,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power through SECI. US authorities have charged Gautam Adani and seven others with agreeing to pay bribes of $265 million to unnamed state government officials to obtain solar power-supply contracts in Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of J&K, between 2021 and 2022.

bribery scandal in the US will not have a material impact on billionaire Gautam Adani's businesses, Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners on Monday said there is no change in its investment thesis on Adani Group companies. Before the scandal broke out, GQG's total exposure to Adani Group companies stood at $9.7 billion which was about 6.1% of its total assets. «We believe this level of exposure is manageable, even given the volatility in Adani Group stocks,» GQG Partners said in a memo, adding that the fundamentals of the companies the boutique investment firm is invested in remain sound.

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Britain's motor finance industry is in disarray, with analysts warning of worst-case scenarios similar in magnitude to the country's costliest consumer banking scandal.

Russian clients that UBS took on when it bought Credit Suisse, three people familiar with the matter said, heightening scrutiny of one of the world's biggest wealth managers. The U.S. sanctions enforcement agency, OFAC, has written to the bank as part of this inquiry, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. A U.S. official, asking not to be named, said the Swiss bank and the enforcer have held discussions. OFAC, or the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the globe's most powerful sanctions agency, wrote to UBS in recent weeks, said one of the people.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The board of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) on Tuesday approved a revision of all audit standards issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in spite of objections from the accountants' body on some of the changes.

MMS scandal. Malik captioned her recent Instagram reel with “Because it’s trending,” and the post has already received more than 70,000 likes. In the clip, Malik is seen dressed in a form-fitting black top and coat and blue, high-waist jeans.

A jury could begin deliberations as soon as Thursday on whether a Virginia-based military contractor bears responsibility for abuse of detainees 20 years ago at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison

Emanuel Macron congratulated Donald Trump on his recent and apparent victory in the US Presidential Elections 2024 while he became one of the first world leaders to do so. According to Huffpost, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Emanuel Macron expressed his readiness to collaborate with Donald Trump while referencing to their four year old partnership.