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The U.S. imposed sanctions on an international money-laundering network, deeming it, and a Dubai-based supporter, a transnational criminal organization.
In November of 1979, First Lady Rosalynn Carter made a trip to a refugee camp near the Thai-Cambodian border. The fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to Communist forces, four years earlier, produced three million refugees—Vietnamese boat people fleeing persecution, Hmong people escaping the Pathet Lao, and Cambodian victims of genocide, war, and famine.
In a big day for development here, a notable Afghan businessman stood with top government officials on Wednesday as he signed the contract for a new township: 8,800 homes across 33 acres of prime real estate in the heart of the capital, with an initial investment of at least $95 million.
In the years since 2011, the Middle East has been convulsed by instability. Bad governance and civil war have left vacuums that extremist groups have eagerly filled. Competition between regional powers is on the rise; it is often waged violently through sectarian proxies, including terrorist groups.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed his party’s surprise victory in parliamentary elections as a vote of confidence for one-party rule and vowed to stabilize a polarized nation facing serious security threats and an economic slowdown.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry sat down Sunday with the leader of Uzbekistan, an authoritarian nation that routinely persecutes government critics, and discussed the potential for cooperation on trade, security and the environment if it improves its human rights record.
A newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance launched an offensive against the Islamic State in the northeast province of Hasakah on Saturday, a day after the United States said it would send Special Operations forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists.
They arrived in an unceasing stream, 10,000 a day at the height, as many as a million migrants heading for Europe this year, pushing infants in strollers and elderly parents in wheelchairs, carrying children on their shoulders and life savings in their socks. They came in search of a new life, but in many ways they were the heralds of a new age.
The European Union suspended the bulk of its sanctions against Belarus, including an asset freeze and a travel ban on longtime President Alexander Lukashenko, in the bloc’s biggest push yet to improve ties with the Minsk government.
Deutsche Bank, the German financial giant with a big presence on Wall Street, is close to settling one of the many government investigations it currently faces.