Iran’s central bank has banned the country’s banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, over money-laundering concerns, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday as the country tries to halt a currency crisis./ FILE PHOTO: A token of the virtual currency Bitcoin is seen ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police have arrested a former prosecutor known as the “torturer of Tehran,” who faces a two-year jail term over the death of prisoners following protests in 2009, Iranian media reported on Sunday. The official website of the judiciary, Mizanonline.com, said former Tehran ...
Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know?/ The rumblings of an open conflict between Israel and Iran in Syria are growing louder. against the Syrian regime, it came on the heels of a suspected ...
John Oliver and James Van Der Beek Launch a Mock Podcast About Iran on/ , John Oliver turned his attention to diplomacy, a.k.a. “the thing that keeps us from immediately going to war with our enemies and from telling Lichtenstein how we really feel.”/ Administration has a lot of diplomatic ...
Newly released body camera footage shows police officers looking for 16-year-old Kyle Plush, who called 911 twice before his death, but does not show them getting out of their patrol car.
man has been lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after being accused of killing a local spiritual leader. Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, a father of one, was dragged by the neck through a remote village following the death of Olivia Arevalo, a plant healer from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe of northeastern Ms ...
Did you have a happy Tax Day? Are you feeling grateful for the Republican tax cut? In a sublime case of poetic justice, the so-called Tax Cut and Jobs Act is backfiring on the Republicans big time. Most voters are unimpressed, and Republicans themselves are ceasing to emphasize it in their ...
WASHINGTON/TORONTO (Reuters) - Western allies stepped up pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to keep alive an international nuclear deal with Iran, with French President Emmanuel Macron due to urge him in person not to tear up the 2015 agreement./ Overview of the 2nd Preparatory ...
These stunning images reveal the remains of a more than century-old sunken ship that has been preserved beneath freezing Lake Superior. The ship looks almost exactly the same as it did the day it sunk beneath waves all those years ago. At 60 meters long (approximately 198 feet), the Gunilda sunk ...
broadcast as he covered an anti-government protest in Angel Gahona was describing damage to a cash machine at a bank in the town of Bluefields on the country's southern Caribbean coast, when a shot rang out and he fell to the ground, bleeding from the head. After tumbling down the steps in front ...
A Canadian man was lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after residents of a remote village accused him of killing an 81-year-old medicine woman a day earlier, a spokesman for the attorney general's office said on Sunday. Olivia Arevalo, a traditional healer of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe, was shot twice ...
A manhunt is underway in Tennessee for a central Illinois man who police say opened fire with an assault rifle at a Waffle House restaurant, killing four people.
KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — About 200 people gathered on a Maine beach — some with dogs in tow — on Sunday to remember Barbara Bush, who with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, spent years at their summer home in Kennebunkport. Barbara Bush died on Tuesday at home in Houston at the age ...
A grainy video of female officers from Iran's morality police assaulting a young woman whose headscarf only loosely covered her hair has sparked a new public debate on the decades-long requirement for women in the Islamic Republic./ While officials of all ranks up to President Hassan Rouhani ...
Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Russia joined a chorus of voices Monday urging US President Donald Trump to stand by the Iran nuclear deal, as Tehran sent a stern warning that it was an "all or nothing" situation./ During his election ...
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — In a story April 22 about protests in Armenia, The Associated Press misspelled the protest leader's name. It's Nikol, not Nikola. Armenia protest leader arrested after failed talks with PM The leader of major political protests that have gripped the Armenian capital for ...
A Peruvian judge on Monday ordered the arrests of two men accused of lynching of a Canadian man last week in a remote Amazonian village as retribution. The Canadian, 41-year-old Sebastian Woodroffe, had been accused by villagers of murdering an indigenous medicine woman in the region of Ucayali ...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of a full state visit, French President Emmanuel Macron is on a rescue mission to convince President Donald Trump to stick with the Iran nuclear deal. But despite the apparent warmth of the relationship between the two leaders, he faces an uphill struggle./ It's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Washington on Monday for a state visit likely to be dominated by differences over trade and the nuclear accord with Iran./ As Macron headed west, the Iranian government urged European leaders to convince U.S. President Donald ...
Russia has not made a final decision to supply Damascus with the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system following an American-led attack on Syria on . However, even if Moscow were to proceed with the delivery of the S-300 system to the Assad regime, the Russian-made weapon would not likely ...
Mohammad Javad Zarif said, “In an attempt to be the strongest in the region, to exclude one another from the region, we have managed to destroy the region.”/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2018 in Munich, ...
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos (R) has rejected the suggestion by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) of a soldier swap deal (AFP Photo/ANGELOS TZORTZINIS)/ Athens (AFP) - Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Sunday rejected the suggestion of a swap deal involving two Greek ...
