by Joe Snell | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Trade Bank of Iraq is expected to stop processing payments to Iran if US sanction exemptions expire next month, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The bank is used by Iraq to pay for Iranian gas imports that are used to power the country’s...
by Alec Bose | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The women’s march this past weekend included many different interests and policy goals, including those lobbying against war with Iran. “War is a women’s issue,” said Donna Farvard, organizing director for the National Iranian American Council....
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by Niko Boskovic | Jan 21, 2020 | Environment, Featured
MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A European Court decision could open the way for residents of the Bosnian city of Mostar to vote in municipal elections and finally close an illegal landfill poisoning the city. The European Court for Human Rights ruled Oct. 29...
by Mark Satter and Brian Johnson | Jan 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Thousands attended a pro-gun rights rally on Virginia’s State Capitol grounds today amid a heightened security presence to speak out against gun control measures being considered by the state legislature. Protestors, including heavily armed...
by Silvia Martelli | Jan 17, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The United States and its Western allies will put additional pressure on the Venezuelan authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. “More actions are coming. Maduro certainly knows that we mean...
by Aishwarya Airy | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to shift $7.2 billion from the Pentagon budget to pay for his planned wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is “playing politics with the nation’s defense,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “It is bad...
