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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ A fighter with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) stands guard during a disarmament process marking a significant step toward ending the decades-long conflict between Turkey and the outlawed group, in the Qandil mountains, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ FILE PHOTO: Former Cyprus parliamentary speaker Demetris Syllouris attends a deposition to the investigating committee on Cyprus passports, in Nicosia, Cyprus April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photo/ Feb 17 ...
BBC Verify has confirmed the location of US aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran using satellite imagery, as Washington continues to put pressure on the country over its military program and recent/ US and Iranian officials are set to meet in Swizerland on Tuesday for a second ...
As the UK adds folic acid to supermarket bread, a nutritionist examines whether TikTok health fears are backed by evidence./ Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ Folic acid will be added to many supermarket breads later this year./ Fortified foods are marketed ...
Two female Israeli soldiers had to be rescued by police after being chased by a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men./ Footage from the city of Bnei Brak showed the women running through streets strewn with rubbish and overturned bins as police officers formed a protective barrier. More than 20 ...
Violet Zulu, who was sent to a maximum-security prison after she was denied a legal abortion and ended her pregnancy on her own, poses for a photograph in Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Kille)/ LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — She says she was let down at every step. By a partner who ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz during a roundtable discussion on rural health care investments in the ...
"The ball is in America's court", Iranian minister says/ Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions, an Iranian minister has told the BBC./ US officials have repeatedly emphasised that Iran, not the US, is ...
Police in Munich estimated that 250,000 turned out to hear Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's former leader, give an address/ Hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations around the world against the Iranian government on Saturday, following calls from the exiled son of the ...
Hamas and Israel have both repeatedly accused each other of breaching a ceasefire agreement/ Eleven Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday morning, according to Palestinian civil defence and health officials./ The IDF said it had struck terror targets in response to ...