The United States on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting an alleged jet fuel smuggling operation to supply Russian forces operating in Syria.Three individuals, five shipping vessels and a Moscow-based front company participated in a scheme to move money and fuel to Russian forces supporting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the US Treasury announced."Assad's despotic regime is under an international spotlight for using chemical weapons and committing atrocities against innocent Syrian civilians and they rely on these types of illicit networks to stay in power," Sigal Mandelker, Treasury's undersecretary for counterterrorism, said in a statement.
Facebook, whose "war room" on misinformation is seen in a 2018 picture, remains the platform of choice for social media manipulation campaigns, according to global study by Oxford University researchers
Jacques Chirac, seen here with Margaret Thatcher in 1987, was caught on microphone making an offensive remark during tense European talks with the British prime minister
Maguire said he "endeavored" to get the complaint to Congress but needed more time to resolve executive privilege hurdles.
Pacquiao was speaking at Dubai press in the City's Sports Council on Thursday in preparation for his amateur Basketball league.
White House officials sought to restrict access to the transcript of a call between US President Donald Trump and the leader of Ukraine, according to a whistleblower complaint
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said some European countries have 'clear hostility' towards Iran
CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei admitted the US sanctions had also impacted Huawei's financing
Huawei Technologies battling the U.S ban in 5G products has offered to license its 5G mobile technology to a U.S. firm in a bid to alleviate charges of security concerns about its products.
Thieves whipped away $300,000 in cash from JFK Airport. The heist is being investigated by the FBI.
A spate of vaping-linked deaths and illnesses has led to a backlash against e-cigarettes
Not a crisis, just a 'significant slowdown'
An array of global forces are aligning against it.
A file photo of former French President Jacques Chirac who has died aged 86
An autopsy conducted on Sept. 23 revealed that the cause of the infant’s death was a homicide.
New manufacturing techniques will make the Tesla Model Y the most advanced Tesla EV ever.
A whistleblower report that has prompted an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump contains "very troubling" allegations, US lawmakers have said, after the president dismissed the case against him as a "joke."Democrats have accused Trump of a "mafia-style shakedown" of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky by urging a probe into his rival Joe Biden -- prompting the complaint by an anonymous US intelligence official earlier in September.
Iran boasts that it remains a bulwark against opiate smuggling from Afghanistan to Europe, despite EU governments' failure to do more to mitigate the impact of unilateral US sanctions
The action-packed trailer of "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season 11 has been released online.
China, which has been hit by an outbreak of African swine fever, said it had bought a 'considerable' amount of US pork
Police are investigating the death of a student in New Zealand whose body lay undiscovered in a university dorm room for eight weeks
Several schools were closed and residents of twelve towns including Rouen were told to stay at home as the fire spread