A currency exchange bureau worker counts US dollars, as Iranian bank notes are seen at right with portrait of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in downtown Tehran, Iran, in this Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 file photo. The SWIFT financial transaction service says it's cutting ties with ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Dozens of Iranian banks were blocked from doing business with much of the world as the West tightens the financial screws on a country it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons. The Belgium-based company that facilitates most international bank transfers on Thursday ...
The world's biggest electronic payment system on Saturday will cut off in an attempt to further strangle Tehran's ability to finance a , which facilitates the bulk of global cross-border payments, said it would disconnect designated Iranian financial firms from its messaging system on Saturday ...
Empty and disused Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL Group) containers are seen at Malta Freeport in the Port of Marsaxlokk outside Valletta February 10, 2012. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/ , cutting it out of key global financial networks, but is taking urgent steps to withstand the ...
, which facilitates the bulk of global cross-border payments, will on Saturday cut off after an EU order and pressure from the United States. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ) said in a statement on Thursday it would disconnect Iranian financial institutions affected ...
LONDON/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Vessels carrying at least 360,000 , Reuters shipping data showed on Thursday, a sign that Tehran is succeeding in stockpiling food to blunt the impact of tougher Iran has been shopping for wheat at a frantic pace, ordering a large part of its expected yearly ...
European Union nations agreed Thursday to ban financial transfers such as payments to hundreds of Iranian firms and individuals blacklisted by the bloc over In several rounds of sanctions, the latest in January, the EU has frozen the assets of 116 people and 442 firms and utilities, including ...
, which facilitates the bulk of global cross-border payments, will on Saturday cut off after an EU order and pressure from the United States. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ) said in a statement on Thursday it would disconnect Iranian affected by the sanctions from ...
— part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. sanctions because global financial transactions are impossible without using , and it will go a long way toward isolating Iran financially. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or ...
Major money exchange houses in the United Arab Emirates have stopped handling Iranian rials over the last several weeks, executives at the houses said, further reducing Iran's ability to trade and obtain hard currency. Since late last year, Iran has largely been frozen out of the global banking ...
and other trade — said the EU decision "prohibits companies such as SWIFT to continue to provide specialized financial messaging services to EU-sanctioned banks," and the company was forced to act. Lazaro Campos, chief executive of SWIFT, said "disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and ...
and other trade — said the EU decision "prohibits companies such as SWIFT to continue to provide specialized financial messaging services to EU-sanctioned banks," and the company was forced to act. Lazaro Campos, chief executive of SWIFT, said "disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and ...
By Isaac Arnsdorf and Ewa Krukowska on March 14, 2012/ The European Union may allow insurance against risks such as collisions and spills for tankers carrying Iranian oil after ship owners said the ban would hinder exports and crude prices rose. The EU would prohibit the insurance and ...
The European Union is seeking to ban imports of products including petroleum oils and natural gas from Iran and to bar global bank-transfer messaging companies from providing services to entities subject to EU sanctions. The EU regulatory arm and the bloc’s foreign affairs service proposed that ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and ...
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The youngest Trump kid is about to make his first big step in life: where he’ll attend college. For quite some time now, people have wondered if will be following in one of their footsteps during his collegiate years. Would he go to the Wharton School like his dad and siblings, or go to a ...