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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S main pitch for the pending nuclear deal with Iran is that
The global humanitarian system, already under considerable strain, will soon be tested as never before. In 2013, the gap between the funds available for humanitarian aid and estimated global needs reached $4.5 billion, leaving at least one-third of the demand unmet.
Following the two-year investigation leading to the Silk Road’s takedown in 2013, Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR)—founder and mastermind of the illegal narcotics marketplace formerly run in the Deep Web—was sentenced to not one, but two life sentences in May 2015.
It seems that everyone wants something from Saudi Arabia. Before becoming the president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi wanted visas to take his family on a religious pilgrimage. A Lebanese politician begged for cash to pay his bodyguards. Even the state news agency of Guinea, in West Africa, asked for $2,000 “to solve many of the problems the agency is facing.”
Iran continued its “terrorist-related” activity last year and also continued to provide broad military support to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the State Department said Friday in its annual report on terrorism.
Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation reported by The Associated Press earlier this month.
Russia has protested to the Belgian ambassador over the seizure of Russian state assets in Belgium - a move triggered by a court ruling over the now-defunct Yukos oil firm.
Snaking past blackened shop fronts and shattered homes, buses ferried the first civilian residents back to Tikrit this week, an initial step toward reviving this city after Islamic State militants were expelled more than two months ago.
In the eyes of the State Department, ISIS is beating al Qaeda at being the world's leading terrorist group.
The Treasury Department gave financial institutions a rare pat on the back in a recent analysis of anti-money-laundering safeguards, saying the system has significantly improved.