Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday he had appointed the world's first AI-generated government minister to oversee public tenders, promising its artificial intelligence would make it "corruption-free".

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.

One analyst told Newsweek the protests are part of a "generational reckoning against a culture of political impunity."

A wealthy business couple has identified several Philippine congressmen and public works officials, alleging they forced them to pay huge kickbacks so they could secure lucrative flood-control projects from the government in explosive testimony during

AS much as P1.029 trillion of the government’s climate-tagged expenditures could have been lost to corruption since 2023, including P560 billion in 2025 alone, environmental group Greenpeace Philippines said.

Police and protesters have clashed with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons deployed by officers as thousands of young people try to storm the parliament.