Years ago, if I had been asked about my ideal honeymoon, I would have said: the Seychelles Islands. Beautiful and exotic, far away and yet so close to the war raging in Europe, it is where billionaires Alexei Mordashov and Andrey Kostin hide their wealth. Mordashov is
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If you ask around, they will tell you that Madeira is one of the many tourist destinations in the Atlantic Ocean, full of sea, sun, tourists and beer. But they are wrong. Despite being in the age of global and mass tourism, Funchal and its island have
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Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has a small Renault in which she drives into town for work or family errands. She is an inconvenient journalist, covering stories of international crime hunters who, for one reason or another, stop over in her home islands – the Maltese archipelago. One
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When, after hours of flying, you get off at Curaçao International Airport (the largest and most beautiful in Central America), the first indelible impression is that of being at the seaside in August, with your senses full of the delicious smell of salt and in your eyes
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Even the Avengers are sometimes cornered. They fight, they fall, they get back up. But they never stop fighting. The human imagination created them for this. In the 80’s, a completely opposite figure of a hero with supernatural powers was dominating Italy: Superciuk, the man who stole
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On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn’t. Like the attempt by several of Europe’s biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues
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It is a country that is a third the width of the city of London or Rome, half of Berlin. It has just over 60,000 inhabitants, a gross domestic product comparable to that of Burundi and Sierra Leone – and, moreover, it hides it in the safes
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Denizli is a very difficult city after the First World War. A city of shepherds and craftsmen, lashed by the winter cold and starved to death by the agriculture of the landowners made of sweat, blood and humiliation. A mafia clan called Yiğitbaşı is responsible: a clan
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Until a few years ago, criminals hid their illegal business and the resulting income in tax havens close to their homes, where clients, lawyers and bankers spoke the same language: Zurich, Amsterdam, Vaduz, Monte Carlo, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Lugano, Panama[1]. Then the Egmont Group[2] was born, and with
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The main activity of militias which fight, for apparently religious reasons, against national governments or against certain countries considered as enemies (like the United States, Israel or the European Union) is to generate the enormous sums of money which are necessary for organize and recruit their army,
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