The United Nations Security Council announced that it has removed Iranian Bank Sepah and its international subsidiary from a sanctions list, following yesterday’s announcement of a UN report confirming that Iran has completed necessary preparatory steps to start the implementation of a plan of action aiming to resolve the nuclear issue. The report was submitted […]Load more...
Gobernadora Gina Raimondo en la Iglesia Bautista Ebenezer Rhode Island – Diversos actos se realizaban el lunes en todo el estado para rendir homenaje a Martin Luther King Jr., hoy es dedicado a recordar al finado líder que lucho por defender la igualdad de derechos para las personas de raza negra. La gobernadora Gina Raimondo […]Load more...
VOA News The United States is looking for three U.S. contractors who were reportedly kidnapped in Baghdad. Iraqi and U.S. officials say the company for whom the three are working went missing two days ago. There are no details on their identities or what their jobs are in Iraq, but many different companies are working […]Load more...
VOA News British lawmakers debate Monday a petition signed by more than 500,000 people seeking to ban U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from Britain. Last month Trump, a billionaire real estate developer and frontrunner among Republican candidates, prompted international outrage by calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States «until our […]Load more...
Chris Hannas The Democratic candidates running in this year’s presidential election agreed Sunday that the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran and release of U.S. citizens represent a positive step in relations, while also calling on countries in the Middle East to do increase their role in the fight against Islamic State. Former Secretary […]Load more...
VOA News An unmanned U.S. rocket placed a $180 million climate-monitoring satellite into orbit Sunday, but then failed in an attempt to return to a platform floating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blasted off Sunday morning from a U.S. airbase in southern California, with a […]Load more...
VOA News Iran will increase its daily oil production by 20 percent, after international sanctions related to the country’s nuclear program were lifted on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Roknoddin Javadi said Iran will add 500,000 barrels a day to its current production of 2.8 million barrels a day. Even with crude oil prices dipping to […]Load more...
VOA News Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least 15 policemen in the Yemeni capital overnight, adding to a death toll of nearly 6,000 people since Riyadh began its military campaign against the Houthi militia that controls Sana’a. The attack on police headquarters wounded dozens more people. Rescue efforts were underway for survivors trapped under the debris […]Load more...
Chris Hannas One of the Americans freed by Iran arrived home late Sunday, while several others were in Germany to receive medical treatment at a U.S. military hospital. The Boston Globe published a picture of Matthew Trevithick and his mother at Boston’s Logan Airport where he arrived late Sunday on a flight from Turkey. He […]Load more...
VOA News Americans across the country are pausing Monday to observe the federal holiday marking the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King first rose to prominence in 1955 when he led a successful boycott of the public buses in the southern city of Montgomery, Alabama, forcing the city to end […]Load more...