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May 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury has launched a review of its sanctions programs and lists to make them more effective and to ease compliance burdens on financial institutions, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Treasury plans to announce on Thursday the elimination of an initial tranche of about 80 …
NEW YORK (AP) — Blocking someone from entering a house of worship, or acting in a way that makes worshippers entering the building fear for their safety, is now a crime in New York under a law approved after a series of raucous demonstrations outside synagogues. The law, signed Tuesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, also …
By Yi-Chin Lee and Ann Wang KEELUNG, Taiwan, May 28 (Reuters) – A new ferry service to serve booming tourism between Taiwan and Japan began on Thursday on a ship that could be pressed into service to evacuate people on southern Japanese islands in the event of a war in the region. The Yaima Maru …
May 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv remains open, it said on Thursday, denying reports about changes to its operations following warnings from Russia that diplomats and foreigners should leave the Ukrainian capital before it escalated attacks. Some Ukrainian media on Thursday cited remarks by European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas that …
The U.S. military said it struck another vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing two men. The U.S. Southern Command posted video on social media showing a boat resting on the water before being struck by an explosion. The last few seconds of the video show smoke and fire …
There are millions of chemical tanks around the U.S., and experts say it is exceedingly rare for them to fail as long as they are properly maintained and inspected. Yet this past week, there were two major hazardous chemical emergencies on the West Coast. A large tank containing a corrosive chemical at a Longview, Washington, …
MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) – Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of making practical preparations for what he called a “large-scale conflict in the east,” the state RIA news agency reported. Naryshkin was also cited as saying that the European Union was rapidly arming itself …
BEIJING, May 28 (Reuters) – A Chinese delegation from the People’s Liberation Army National Defence University will attend Asia’s premier security forum, the Shangri-La Dialogue, to be held in Singapore from May 29 to 31, the Chinese defence ministry said on Thursday. The defence university’s Meng Xiangqing will head the Chinese delegation, the ministry’s spokesperson …
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials, in the latest sign of warming relations between the White House and the …
A former senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million from the federal government and stashing them in his home. David Rush was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money last week, according to federal court filings in Virginia, where he …