Tag: Crime
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International 7-Day News Agenda
Please note that all times are in GMT. Major events are listed under ‘Highlights’. For full details of our coverage of top stories, please see our regularly updated News Advisory. (+) : Event added in the last 24 hours. (*) : Event updated in the last 24 hours. (+) WASHINGTON (United States) – US Senate…
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Iran deems ratification of remaining FATF conventions beneficial for country – FM
Politics Materials 15 January 2025 11:55 (UTC +04:00) Photo: Iran MFA Follow Trend on BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 15. Iran’s current government (in power since August 2024) views the ratification of the remaining two conventions of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as beneficial for the country, said the country’s Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, Trend…
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Depose Maduro
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/maduro-venezuela-trump.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Bret Stephens Jan. 14, 2025 Credit…Juan Barreto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Donald Trump has set some grandiose foreign-policy goals for his second term, from buying Greenland…
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Inside the strategic partnership treaty between Iran and Russia
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Moscow on 17 January to sign a strategic partnership treaty that has been years in the making. The long-awaited cooperation agreement will govern relations between the two countries for the next 20 years, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow has said. This is…
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International 7-Day News Agenda
Please note that all times are in GMT. Major events are listed under ‘Highlights’. For full details of our coverage of top stories, please see our regularly updated News Advisory. (+) : Event added in the last 24 hours. (*) : Event updated in the last 24 hours. LONDON (United Kingdom) – Court hears lawsuit…
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Japanese mob boss pleads guilty in New York to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran
A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. weapons abandoned in Afghanistan to Burma. Takeshi Ebisawa, the 60-year-old alleged leader of the Japanese yakuza, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday to conspiring with a…
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International 7-Day News Agenda
Please note that all times are in GMT. Major events are listed under ‘Highlights’. For full details of our coverage of top stories, please see our regularly updated News Advisory. (+) : Event added in the last 24 hours. (*) : Event updated in the last 24 hours. (*) BEIJING (China) – Grenada Prime Minister…
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New Lebanese president vows state monopoly on all arms, state reforms
Aoun took his oath in parliament after winning a majority of 99 out of 128 lawmaker votes [Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu/Getty] Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun vowed to take control of all arms outside state authority and fully implement the ceasefire deal with Israel in his inaugural speech on Thursday. The military commander-turned-president got 99 votes in…
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Japanese mafia leader caught in U.S. sting pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran
Updated on: January 9, 2025 / 6:44 AM EST / CBS/AP Turner: Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapons state” Rep. Mike Turner says Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapons state” by end of 2024 07:41 The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges alleging that he conspired to…
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Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered
Russia Tomorrow January 8, 2025 • 1:00 pm ET Ilya Zaslavskiy Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 challenged much of the common Western understanding of Russia. How can the world better understand Russia? What are the steps forward for Western policy? The Eurasia Center’s new “Russia Tomorrow” series seeks to reevaluate conceptions of…
