The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday indicted Turkey’s second-largest bank on charges of fraud and money laundering, accusing it of helping Iran evade sanctions implemented to curb its nuclear program. Halbank was reportedly involved in the largest Iran sanctions violation to date, sending ...
The charges against Halkbank were announced as President Trump, having allowed Turkish-backed forces to invade Syria, is looking to take a tougher stand against Turkey./ WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday sharply escalated economic pressure on Turkey by filing fraud and ...
Tuesday with participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade/ Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said senior bank officials at the state-owned bank helped to move billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue illegally./ Prosecutors said that between 2012 and 2016, Halkbank helped run a ...
This file photo taken on December 17, 2013 shows businessman Reza Zarrab surrounded by journalists as he arrives at a police center in Istanbul. Zarrab arrested on March 19, 2016 in the United States on charges of conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran./ Federal prosecutors in New York ...
NEW YORK — The United States criminally charged a major Turkish bank with helping to evade sanctions against Iran, potentially raising diplomatic tensions as the U.S. tries to contain Turkey’s military offensive in Syria./ The charges against Halkbank, a state-owned bank, were announced Tuesday, ...
Victims were bound and blindfolded before being dumped in a pit in Tadamon/ A key suspect in one of the most notorious killings of the Syrian civil war has been arrested, Syria's interior minister has said./ Amjad Youssef was wanted over the mass killing of civilians in April 2013 in the Tadamon ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addresses the media at the Meeting in Defence of Democracy summit, in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)/ said Monday she would demand explanations over ...
Former IRGC commander Ebrahim Azizi spoke to the BBC in Tehran about the current situation in the region/ "Never." That's when a senior Iranian lawmaker says they'll be ready to give up their control of the Strait of Hormuz./ "It's our inalienable right," Ebrahim Azizi, a former commander in ...
Waltz told ABC's Jonathan Karl that destroying Iran's infrastructure would be "an escalatory ladder," not a war crime, as Trump's ceasefire deadline approaches Wednesday./ Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz speaks after ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten (not pictured), after the Four Freedoms Awards ceremony, in Middelburg, Netherlands, April 16, 2026. REUTERS/Piroschka ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun takes a question from a journalist at a press conference in Beijing, China, January 7, 2025. REUTERS/Florence Lo/ BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - China said a blockade of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ MIAMI (AP) — A hotel at one of Miami's most exclusive locations was demolished Sunday to make way for something bigger. Demolition experts completed the controlled implosion of the former Mandarin Oriental, Miami on Brickell ...
At first glance they look like they could be scenes out of a Lego movie, although more vivid and fast-paced./ But these viral AI videos inspired by the instantly recognisable Lego aesthetic feature dying children, fighter jets and US President Donald Trump - and are in fact pro-Iran propaganda./ ...