Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ The United States has unsealed a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker anchored off the coast of Gibraltar. It is the latest twist involving the vessel at the center of a standoff between Tehran ...
Justice Department tries to stop Grace 1 vessel from being released/ LONDON—The U.S. launched new legal action to detain an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar that has become a symbol of tensions between Tehran and the West, unveiling a warrant to seize the ship for alleged violations of American ...
Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider region/ The global standoff between the United States and Iran took a new turn Saturday after the United States issued a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar, just hours after the ship was ordered ...
The position of the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, formerly named Grace 1, is seen on a mobile phone as it sits anchored after the Supreme Court of the British territory lifted its detention order, in the Strait of Gibraltar/ GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - The Iranian tanker caught in a standoff ...
The U.S. has unsealed a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar./ The government of Gibraltar on Sunday rejected a U.S. request to continue holding an Iranian supertanker detained more than a month ago on suspicion of attempting to breach global sanctions against Syria. The ...
Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 sits anchored in the Strait of Gibraltar - REUTERS/ The United States has issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker caught in the standoff between Tehran and the West in a last ditch effort to prevent the vessel from leaving Gibraltar. The Grace 1 was seized by ...
The Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar: the US Justice Deparment issued a warrant on August 16, 2019 for the ship to be seized/ The Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar: the US Justice Deparment issued a warrant on August 16, 2019 for the ship to be seized ...
A view of the Grace 1 supertanker stands off the coast of the British territory of Gibraltar, Friday Aug. 16, 2019. The lawyer representing the captain of the Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff said Friday that the captain no longer wants to be in command of the ship, which is ...
The United States faced an against-the-clock legal battle to re-seize an supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff before the vessel's shipping agent said Saturday he would go ahead with the/ The head of the company sorting paperwork and procuring for the Grace 1 oil tanker in the British ...
President Trump called Iran "nothing but trouble" after saying he heard from the U.K. that tankers were seized in the Strait of Hormuz./ The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar, a day after a judge in the British overseas territory ...
The Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar: the US Justice Deparment issued a warrant on August 16, 2019 for the ship to be seized/ The Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar: the US Justice Deparment issued a warrant on August 16, 2019 for the ship to be seized ...
A view of the Grace 1 supertanker stands off the coast of the British territory of Gibraltar, Friday Aug. 16, 2019. The lawyer representing the captain of the Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff said Friday that the captain no longer wants to be in command of the ship, which is ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Grace 1, which is currently anchored in the Strait of Gibraltar, is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil The US Justice Department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be ...
A view of the Grace 1 supertanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 as a sail boat passes by. The lawyer representing the captain of the Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff said Friday that the captain no longer wants to be in command of the ship, which ...
Gibraltar's Supreme Court has ruled against U.S. efforts to block the release of an Iranian supertanker; Greg Palkot has the details./ supertanker at the center of a diplomatic standoff no longer wants to keep command of the ship, which is in need of repairs that could impede its immediate ...
A view of the Grace 1 supertanker is seen backdropped by Gibraltar’s Rock, as it stands at anchor in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, seized last month in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of the ...
An Iranian flag flies at Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, before being named as Grace 1, as it sits anchored after the Supreme Court of the British territory lifted its detention order, in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain, August 18, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca/ GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - An Iranian ...
The Iranian flag flies at Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, before being named as Grace 1, as it sits anchored after the Supreme Court of the British territory lifted its detention order, in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain, August 18, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca/ GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - An Iranian ...
GIBRALTAR, Aug 18 (Reuters) - An Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West has raised an Iranian flag and has had a new name painted on its side, Reuters images of the stationary vessel filmed off Gibraltar showed on Sunday. British Royal Marines seized the vessel in ...
(Adds details from prosecutor, court document, background) WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. court has issued a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian tanker that British Royal Marines had seized last month in Gibraltar, a court document showed on Friday. The oil tanker Grace 1, the more than ...
There are growing suspicions that the UK and US are scheming behind the scenes to seize the oil tanker Adrian Daria on the high seas/ The decision by the United States Justice Department to issue a warrant for the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker, Adrian Daria, (formerly Grace 1), has created ...
Iran’s ambassador to the UK has rejected claims that Tehran renamed a tanker planned to depart from the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, where it has been detained since last month, to avoid US sanctions, saying the move was in line with international maritime rules. Hamid Baeidinejad ...
A ruling by the Gibraltar Supreme Court to free the Panamanian-flagged supertanker Grace 1 (now named Adrian Daria) has been widely interpreted as a victory for Iranian diplomacy. The supertanker, which was carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian crude oil, was seized by British Royal Marines in ...
Britain’s seizure of a supertanker carrying Iranian crude oil has proven to be a legal, diplomatic and political defeat for London. This is evident in Britain’s retreat following the Gibraltar “Supreme Court’s” decision to order the release of the tanker. But how did Britain get entangled in ...
43AM [Updated: Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:45AM ]/ The US Department of Justice on Friday issued a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker captured by British Royal Marines in Gibraltar last month for allegedly violating international sanctions./ International lawyer and political commentator ...
15AM [Updated: Sat Aug 17, 2019 01:16AM ]/ The United States is trying to block the release of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker in “an effort simply to harass Iran,” says a political analyst. On Thursday, Gibraltar’s government announced it was releasing the supertanker seized by British ...
55PM [Updated: Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:59PM ]/ The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. On Thursday, Gibraltar’s government announced it was the ...
This picture shows the Iran-operated Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar./ The US Department of Justice has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker. The warrant was issued a day after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. The vessel was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
Lamees Altalebi, Ahmed Nour, Abdirahim Saeed, Paul Cusiac/ More than a million Palestinians - almost half of the total population of Gaza - have been displaced from the south of the territory over the past month, sharply worsening the already dire humanitarian situation, according to the UN. The ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Russian President Putin meets international news agency editors in St Petersburg/ ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed ...