Tag: Crime
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Canada’s dirty money is funding instability in the Middle East
Christian Leuprecht is co-editor of Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada, professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Joe Adam George is a national security analyst and contributing writer with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money,” according…
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Delhi Weather Live News Updates: Delhi shrouded in thick smog for second consecutive day, AQI reaches 432
14 Nov 2024 | 09:40:31 AM IST Synopsis Delhi Weather Live News Updates: Delhi shrouded in thick smog for second consecutive day, AQI reaches 432 Delhi Weather Live News Updates: A thick layer of smog engulfs the Gazipur as the air quality deteriorates to ‘Severe’ category in several parts of the national capital, as per…
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Trump’s pick of Marco Rubio could harden oil sanctions on Iran, Venezuela
Marco Rubio has long pushed for a tougher U.S. policy on Iran and China [Getty] President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state could signal stricter enforcement of oil sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, but concerns about retaliation by China could temper any efforts, analysts said on Wednesday. Rubio, a…
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Trump pick Rubio could harden oil sanctions on Iran, Venezuela
Item 1 of 2 U.S. Senator Republican Marco Rubio gives a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo [1/2]U.S. Senator Republican Marco Rubio gives a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/File Photo Purchase…
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US scrutinises Russia accounts UBS took over from Credit Suisse, sources say
ZURICH/FRANKFURT/LONDON – The United States is pursuing an inquiry into Russian clients that UBS took on when it bought Credit Suisse, three people familiar with the matter said, heightening scrutiny of one of the world’s biggest wealth managers. The US sanctions enforcement agency, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has written to the bank as…
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IRGC operative charged in plot to assassinate Trump, Jewish targets in US
The DOJ has revealed that an Iranian agent was offered $500k bounties on NYC Jewish figures while surveilling president-elect Donald Trump. By SHIR PERETS NOVEMBER 11, 2024 07:39 Focus on Iran, the Iranian flag in crosshairs (Illustrative). (photo credit: Akbar Nemati/Unsplash, DAVID YAPHE) Farhad Shakeri, one of three Americans charged with the attempted assassination of…
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Iran’s invisible empire: Khamenei’s global network, jihad, and the hope for Iranian democracy
How can Khamenei’s “shadow empire” deteriorate? By ALEX WINSTON NOVEMBER 10, 2024 15:48 Updated: NOVEMBER 10, 2024 17:47 Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameini seen over an AI image of the Iranian octopus (illustrative) (photo credit: GROK/X/ Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS) In the complex web of contemporary geopolitics, Iran…
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Hitman in Iran’s guns-for-hire plot against Trump is pictured as journalist who was also a target says she’s ‘in shock’
ONE of the alleged hitmen in Iran’s assassination conspiracy against Donald Trump has been pictured. Prosecutors claim the man was also employed to kill a New York journalist – who says she’s been left in “shock”. 11 Carlisle ‘pop’ Rivera has been charged by the FBI as part of a conspiracy to assassinate Donald TrumpCredit:…
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Iran denies involvement in Trump assassination plot outlined in DOJ report: ‘Malicious conspiracy’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed a report released by the Department of Justice on Friday stating that it thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump. A criminal complaint filed in a New York City federal court stated that an unnamed official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps told Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to…
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Charge over alleged Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump
Officials have charged a man over an alleged Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election, the US Justice Department has revealed. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) instructed a contact in September to put together a plan…
