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It is after an odyssey of 3,000 years that a woman has become the mayor of Rome known as  the “eternal city.” A lawyer and councilor Virginia Raggi belongs to Five Star (M5S) Movement party, a...

  Seen as the biggest corporate data leak in history, the so-called Panama Papers continue to rattle the tax authorities around the World, as they scramble to plug loopholes that were so immaculately exploited by wealthy...

The Panama Papers have taken Pakistani politics by storm, turning Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif into a beleaguered figure after revelations that his daughter and two sons had offshore companies listed in their names. The unprecedented reaction...

FEATURED IMAGE above shows Iceland PM and a British Poster on safe havens Photo via Wikimedia Commons A mammoth data of more than 11 million documents – released from the leaked database of a Panama-based law...

A string of recent eye-opening reports have established links between inequality and turmoil at social, national and international levels. For example, a report late last year highlighted how inequality and economic frustrations led to Arab Spring...

Tunisia, the birthplace of Arab Spring revolutions, is in once again in the grip of demonstrations, which are testing the nascent democracy sternly. Five years after the Tunisian youth ousted a dictatorial regime and earned unprecedented...

General Raheel Sharif  – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror  – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...

Just 62 individual billionaires around the world have more wealth than 3.6 billion people combined, according to a latest report by an international charity which says ending the global web of tax havens is the key...

The impact of information technologies on everyday human activity has been so sweeping that for majority of populations in the digitally connected world life is viewed in two broad ways: online and offline. Increasingly, productivity, GDP...

With a middle class of around 40 million, the demand for high-end products has been on the increase for quite sometime in Pakistan. An import of one million smart phones every month and increased demand for...