British Bank in $340 Million Settlement for Laundering
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
New York’s top banking regulator had accused Standard Chartered of laundering $250 billion for Iranian clients and lying about it to authorities.
New York’s top banking regulator had accused Standard Chartered of laundering $250 billion for Iranian clients and lying about it to authorities.
ALEPPO, Syria — Along with the many funerals of the war in Syria, there are weddings, and births, with new arrivals sometimes taking on the names of the departed.
BEIRUT — Syria’s former prime minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, who defected to Jordan last week, said on Tuesday that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad controlled no more than 30 percent of its territory.
KABUL — An attack in southwestern Afghanistan hit on Tuesday as people were shopping for a Muslim holiday.
Mr. Thompson, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s departing director general, will join The New York Times Company.
ROME — The crop, estimated at $3.7 million, was found in a passageway built during the ear of Benito Mussolini.
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A rebel fighter learned that his com- mander had been killed by a tank shell.
As a writer, I watched the Olympics with something like awe at the perfect narrative arc of it all.
There is agreement that the August friendly fixture date serves no good sporting cause.
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