Search Results for: 2006-03-07

Bangladesh's High Court on Thursday ordered prime minister Khaleda Zia to face trial on charges of embezzling money from two corruption cases between 2001 and 2006. Fifteen other defendants are also accused along with Zia of losing...

Israeli rights group Shurat HaDin Law Center and two dozen Americans filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the Obama administration from releasing an estimated $100 billion in frozen Iranian funds. The plaintiffs hold...

The UK Foreign Office on Saturday loosened its travel advisory for Iran , lifting the "essential travel only" status for most of the country. It still advises against all travel to areas along the border...

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a nuclear agreement with Iran, lifting some economic sanctions in exchange for the country reducing its nuclear program...

Negotiations between Iran and six world powers concluded in a nuclear agreement on Tuesday. The JCPOA outlines details of the agreement, in which Iran agreed not to create a nuclear bomb in...

The nuclear negotiations between six world powers and Iran will continue beyond Tuesday's deadline until Friday, July 10. This is not an official extension of deadline , according to High Representative for the EU for...

Representatives of Iran and the six nations committed to reaching a long-term nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic made progress towards a final agreement to lift sanctions in exchange for increased nuclear restrictions and surveillance on Saturday....

Iran has been keeping its commitment as part of a preliminary nuclear deal from 2013 barring Iran from expanding nuclear programs during negotiations, according to an UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report obtained by the the...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Zivotofsky v. Kerry that the Constitution gives the president the exclusive power to recognize foreign sovereigns. Seeking to have his place of birth listed as "Israel"...

Former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia was granted bail on Sunday after surrendering to the court in Dhaka. Zia, the leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had been voluntarily confined to her office since January...