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A federal judge has ordered the release of a report detailing how well HSBC Holdings Plc has complied with anti-money laundering requirements imposed by U.S. regulators when the British bank was fined $1.92 billion three years ago.
Over the Christmas holiday, the people of Mongolia got just what they wanted: their dinosaur back. In a case of life imitating art, actor Nicolas Cage did the right thing, and returned the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar (cousin to the famous Tyrannosaurus rex) to Mongolia, where it had been illegally looted, probably from the Gobi Desert.
Over the Christmas holiday, the people of Mongolia got just what they wanted: their dinosaur back. In a case of life imitating art, actor Nicolas Cage did the right thing, and returned the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar (cousin to the famous Tyrannosaurus rex) to Mongolia, where it had been illegally looted, probably from the Gobi Desert.
The Treasury Department is sanctioning two Lebanese men suspected of laundering money for the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. The department targeted Mohamad Noureddine and Hamdi Zaher for providing financial services to Hezbollah, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization. Thursday's action freezes any assets they have under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S.
Hezbollah is facing hard times. Defending the Assad regime in Syria is a drain on personnel, funds, and military resources; it has produced losses on par with what the group suffered over 18 years of fighting Israel. Meanwhile, longtime sanctions and the decline in oil prices have led Iran to cut back support.
The European Union will monitor rather than regulate "hyped" virtual currencies for now, because too little is known to justify new rules beyond reining in specific risks like money-laundering, the body's executive said on Monday.
One often-cited key to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is economic development. To that end, there seems to be broad agreement about the importance of extending development aid to help the Palestinians build the physical and social infrastructure that will enable the emergence of a sustainable, prosperous society.
On July 14, 2015, the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), the European Union, and Iran reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful. October 18, 2015 marked Adoption Day of the JCPOA, the date on which the JCPOA came into effect and participants began taking steps necessary
The U.S. and Russia will jointly press the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to enforce stricter measures to curb the funding of Islamic State and other terrorist organizations, according to senior U.S. officials.