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C. The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial links of many of the world’s wealthy individuals and public officials to more than 214,488 offshore entities. Panama is on the isthmus, or narrow piece of land, that connects North and South America. Aruba and Singapore are island nations, and most of Italy is on a peninsula.
B. Azerbaijan straddles Southwestern Asia and Southeastern Europe on the western shore of the Caspian Sea and south of Russia. In recent years, large numbers of Azerbaijani journalists, bloggers, lawyers, and human rights activists have been rounded up and jailed for their criticism of the nation’s president who succeeded his father in the job.
A. Malta’s prime minister is a member of the nation’s parliament elected by that body to hold political power and run the government. The country’s president is appointed by the parliament to a largely ceremonial office as head of state. The government has called in foreign investigators including the FBI for an independent probe of the reporter’s murder.
D. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that most of the 810 journalists murdered since 1992 most were covering politics, corruption and human rights. Many more journalists have been jailed by the world's authoritarian regimes trying silence dissent and embarrassing questions.