VIDEO WATCH: Damascus Dossier exposes the Assad regime’s killing machine Journalists from around the world have joined forces to uncover harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run …
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J ournalists from around the world have joined forces to uncover harrowing new details about one of the most brutal state-run killing systems of the 21st century: the regime of former Syrian president …
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United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show
H idden within a drab Damascus shopping center, at the end of an unlit fourth-floor hallway, is the unmarked office of Shorouk for Protection, Guarding and Security Services. A sign informs visitors …
A man lies on a metal surface — emaciated, dead. He is photographed at multiple angles: up close, his chipped, yellow teeth glowing; from the side, his cloudy eyes like frosted glass; from afar, his …
T haer al-Najjar sat in a cramped basement office in a Damascus hotel, his hands trembling as he glanced down at a single piece of paper. Only the whirring of a ceiling fan filled the silence. …
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Cryptocurrency giant Tether is wildly profitable. Can it do more to stop financial crime?
For Brad Thorne, a police detective in Boise, Idaho, a single string of letters and numbers epitomizes how a sinister digital underworld relies on USDT, a popular cryptocurrency also known as tether. …
A Swiss lawyer and former executive of Mossack Fonseca, the embattled Panamanian law firm at the center of ICIJ’s Panama Papers investigation, will face court in Germany next year, according to news …
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Undercover crypto transactions, shady multimillion-dollar schemes, and more Coin Laundry stories from ICIJ’s partners
The Coin Laundry , the latest investigation from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, brought together journalists from more than 35 countries to expose dirty money flowing into …
A n increasing number of governments are starting to shift their investment policies to include digital assets. The largest centralized exchanges, key intermediaries in the cryptocurrency world, …
The founding director of Eswatini’s Farmers Bank has accused Swazi Bridge, a news outlet operating in exile, of defamation in a nearly $10 million lawsuit press freedom advocates have labeled …
Dutch lawyer Marius Hupkes isn’t afraid of crossing borders to investigate criminal networks. He once flew across the Atlantic to Suriname to track down a key witness in a complex murder case. But …
W e all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living …
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European Parliament pledges to tackle transnational repression against human rights defenders
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging member states to confront efforts by authoritarian regimes to coerce, control or silence political opponents and dissidents living in Europe. …
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How a leaked USB stick became the Nauru files – a tale of brutality and despair told in 160,000 words | Ten years of Guardian Australia
It was March 2016 and Paul Farrell, then a reporter at Guardian Australia , had agreed to meet an anonymous source. He had been reporting on immigration for several years but still, when he was …
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The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody | Ten years of Guardian Australia
In cities across Australia in 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world, the number 432 was everywhere – displayed on banners at rallies and at marches. “That number didn’t exist …
News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed. Miller told the World News Media Congress in Taipei that a …
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Purported dissident who monitored Chinese activists in Germany convicted of espionage
A German court this week sentenced a former political aide featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation to more than four years in prison after finding that he spied for China for nearly two …
From Mexico to Puerto Rico, Brazil to Miami, the winners of the 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prize share one thing in common: a track record of working with ICIJ. The four prize winners — all women for the …
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‘Censorship disguised as law’: Investigative journalists in Peru push back against government crackdown
Five Peruvian investigative media outlets are seeking to block a law they say threatens their ability to operate independently by expanding state oversight of nongovernmental organizations that …
Welcome to The Crunch! I’m Nick Evershed, Guardian Australia’s data editor, and today we are launching a new video series and newsletter , and bringing together our data, interactive and visual …
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The Crunch: how mpox attacks, Billy Joel mapped, where washing machines spit microplastics
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch. In this week’s newsletter we are going hard on maps. We have a map based on a Billy Joel song, a Lego US election map and much more. For the non-map …
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Russia secretly acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet
Russia is using sensitive high-tech equipment it secretly acquired from European, U.S. and Asian companies to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, according to Russian Secrets, a new …
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Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages
More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the summer 2024 riots. A small number of them were charged for offences related to their online activity. Their jail sentences – which ranged …
A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to web …
Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock . You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools ! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent …