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Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the 11th timeas
My first meaningful interaction with Kofi Annan was a press conference at the United Nations in September 2005. It was the 60th anniversary of the United Nations and world leaders had just signed onto the most ambitious set of reforms since the organization’s founding in 1945.
The top lawyer in the White House is "co-operating extensively" with the Russia inquiry into election meddling, the New York Times reports.
FOR an inkling of how hard it is for Italian authorities to identify Mafia activity, consider how mobsters disguise the pizzo, or protection payments, they extort. The owner of a business may find that customers have been scared off by a menacing stranger. Within days a mysterious man visits.
AS A candidate, Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” and make government work for ordinary Americans. As a president, he presides over a staggeringly fetid administration. His former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, even wears clothes made from swamp creatures.
DUBAI (Reuters) - A top Iranian constitutional body has demanded changes to anti-money laundering measures passed by parliament, state-run media said on Saturday, as Tehran nears a deadline to pass legislation to help it attract investment while facing U.S sanctions.
Venezuela on Aug. 20 will release its new fiat currency in an attempt to tame its out of control inflation.
North Korea is planning a party. Next month, the reclusive country will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. And there are signs that the event, which will take place Sept. 9, will be a celebration to watch.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette hosted the Republic of Korea (ROK) Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun for the plenary meeting of the U.S.-ROK High Level Bilateral Commission (HLBC). This was the second plenary meeting of the HLBC since its creation in 2016.
Tobacco smuggling, which helps fund terrorist activities by al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Islamic State, is wreaking crim