Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.21 billion in penalties over failures to meet US anti-money-laundering and sanctions requirements, in an enforcement action that the Treasury Department described
Secret US–Iran nuclear talks are raising alarm in Israel, where officials and verification experts are pressing for unprecedented inspections, unrestricted access to nuclear sites and the removal or dilution of Iran’s highly
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The US Navy littoral combat ship USS Tulsa arrived at the Port of Colombo on Wednesday for a scheduled port visit, marking its second visit to Sri Lanka in two years and
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US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while undergoing discipline training after a US Marine was accused of murdering
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Venezuela has never formally sought immunity in the United States for Nicolás Maduro or his wife, Cilia Flores, despite Caracas previously describing Maduro as the country’s president, according to a new filing
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L’Oreal has engaged restructuring advisers to explore options for rising legal liabilities in the United States linked to talc and other chemical ingredients used in some of its cosmetic products, the Wall
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has removed an Accenture contractor following a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal information belonging to thousands of bureau employees, according to two sources familiar with
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Sri Lanka’s foreign policy is developing a troubling contradiction: it speaks of neutrality, humanitarianism and sovereign decision-making, yet its conduct increasingly reflects the risks imposed by American power. The treatment of Iranian
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The US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush arrived at Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday with about 4,800 personnel aboard, beginning a five-day rest-and-recreation visit after six months supporting US operations
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For two months this summer, Iraqi investigators dug beneath the ground around Baidischi, a small town three hours north of Baghdad, searching for what they believed was the proceeds of a vast
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On the last Friday before the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, following a generic order from the State Department regarding ‘security
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The alleged group rape of a Cornell University student has become one of the most serious scandals in the 161-year history of the elite New York institution, while also exposing a legal
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The U.S.-Iran war has entered a phase in which Washington can intensify military and economic pressure but has no clear route to a decisive political settlement, according to an analysis by The
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US President Donald Trump’s push to steer $54 billion of South Korean investment into Alaska liquefied natural gas is drawing fresh attention to a proposed 20-million-ton-a-year export project whose estimated cost is
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Iran has offered to restore nuclear inspectors’ access to bombed facilities in exchange for sanctions relief, according to people familiar with private discussions, a potential concession that could help break the deadlock
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Christa Pike was supposed to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee on Wednesday. Instead, after receiving two injections of pentobarbital, the 50-year-old remained alive for more than an hour before being
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