These are external links and will open in a new window/ The Adrian Darya 1 left Gibraltar in August, despite a last-minute US effort to keep it detained The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a ...
In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Rouhani reiterated a threat that Tehran would take additional steps away from the 2015 nuclear accord on Friday and accelerate its ...
A crew member checks the new name of Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar in August 2019/ A crew member checks the new name of Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar in August 2019 (AFP Photo/Johnny ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday blacklisted an “oil for terror” network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for supplying Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of U.S. sanctions. ...
Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in July. The Treasury Department placed sanctions on individuals and entities affiliated with the corps’s Quds Force./ WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an elaborate shipping network that Iran ...
U.S. Treasury is nothing more than a 'jail warden'/ FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks during a news conference with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/ DUBAI (Reuters) - ...
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact./ Iranian President Hassan ...
The United States will pay people up to $15 million for information that disrupts the finances of an elite Iranian military force, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. The reward program — unusual in that it targets a foreign state entity — is the latest of many moves the U.S. has taken ...
Satellite image shows failed Iranian rocket launch at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Semnan, Iran (AFP Photo/Handout)/ Washington (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Iran's space program, saying that a recent explosion on a launch pad was a sign of missile work. "The ...
This satellite image from Planet Labs Inc., that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran’s Semnan province, Thursday Aug. ...
Iran's top diplomat issued his latest condemnation of the United States as President Donald Trump's administration resorted to offering cash to sailors in exchange for exposing the Islamic Republic's activities. published a report Wednesday quoting an alleged August 26 email from U.S. special ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned an “oil for terror” network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that supplied Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of U.S. sanctions./ FILE PHOTO: ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walks to a working breakfast at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned a sprawling network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by ...
State Department said technologies used to launch rockets are virtually identical to those used to test ballistic missiles/ WASHINGTON—The State Department imposed sanctions against Iran’s space program on Tuesday following a failed attempt to launch a rocket last week, which the U.S. suspects ...
TV/ DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran rejected on Wednesday as “ineffective” U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran’s civilian space agency and two research organisations for allegedly being used to advance the country’s disputed ballistic missile programme. “Americans are addicted to sanctions. These sanctions ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on the three Iranian space agencies on Tuesday, the Treasury Department said, as Washington ramps up pressure over Tehran’s nuclear program. Treasury targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics ...
47PM [Updated: Thu Sep 5, 2019 12:50PM ]/ Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has taken to task the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as the main force behind imposition of Washington’s sanctions against Tehran, saying that it only serves the role of a jail warden ...
34AM [Updated: Thu Sep 5, 2019 12:35AM ]/ Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned the latest moves and comments by the US administration, especially its Iran representative Brian Hook, to increase pressure against the Iranian nation as part of an "economic terrorism campaign." ...
06PM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 06:16PM ]/ Iran has decided the next measures in the third stage of its response to the violation of the 2015 nuclear deal by the United States. (File photo)/ Iran has decided the next steps in the third stage of its response to the violation of the 2015 nuclear ...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a US policy of enticing and threatening is becoming a pattern, as reports emerged that Washington had sought to blackmail the captain of an Iranian-operated tanker to receive bribe for the vessel or face sanctions. “Having failed at piracy, the ...
20PM [Updated: Wed Sep 4, 2019 05:21PM ]/ The United States has imposed sanctions on an Iranian shipping network – several tankers, companies and insurance firms -- accusing it of supplying millions of barrels of oil to Syria. The US Treasury Department announced the illegal sanctions on ...
10PM [Updated: Tue Sep 3, 2019 08:10PM ]/ The United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran this time to target its space program. The administration of US President Donald Trump introduced the illegal sanctions Tuesday as Washington continued its campaign of “maximum pressure” against Tehran ...
For two years during the Gaza war, all public celebrations for Christmas were cancelled in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank – where Christians believe Jesus was born. But after the recent ceasefire, the holy city decided that this year the festivities would return as symbolised by the ...
UK households are often looking for ways to make their money go further amid the was good news for savers, as this influences the rates set by banks and building societies on their products./ . Markets are pricing in a 90% chance that the BoE will lower rates by 0.25% this month, up from 85% ...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a press conference following the arrest in the D.C. pipe bomber investigation, at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak/ WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ...
Yasser Abu Shabab led the Rafah-based Popular Forces militia/ A prominent Palestinian militia leader in Gaza who opposed Hamas has been killed. Yasser Abu Shabab headed the so-called Popular Forces group, which has dozens of fighters and operates in Israeli-controlled territory near the southern ...
Itzik and Talik Gvili said they want "closure" after their son's body was taken hostage/ The parents of the last dead hostage in Gaza have spoken to the BBC about their desperate wait for his body to be returned. Itzik and Talik Gvili insisted the Gaza peace deal could not progress until Hamas ...
Lebanese Civil Defence personnel deployed to the scene of a reported strike in the southern town of Jbaa/ The Israeli military has carried out a new round of air strikes in southern Lebanon, less than a day after Israel and Lebanon held their first direct talks in decades. Residents of the towns ...
Gaza City's medieval Great Omari Mosque was targeted by Israel's military during the past two years of war/ With pickaxes and wheelbarrows, dozens of Palestinian workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests are clearing rubble from the ruins of the Gaza Strip's oldest and largest mosque. The ...
, and affordable locations offering a sense of community and access to green spaces are likely to be high on homebuyers' wishlists. For all these attributes and more, they should look no further than Skipton in North Yorkshire, according to Rightmove's ( ) annual Happy at Home Index, which named ...
Suthisak Rintalak was killed during the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and his body was taken to Gaza/ Israel has identified the body it received via the Red Cross on Wednesday as 43-year-old Thai agricultural worker, Suthisak Rintalak, according to the prime minister's office. Rintalak was one ...
Ernestina Godoy, newly-appointed legal advisor, attends the press conference announcing incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum's Cabinet members, in Mexico City, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)/ MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal ...