12+ hour, 29+ min ago  (896+ words) WASHINGTON " The U. S. Department of the Treasury announced the opening of the next nomination period for states, territories, and the District of Columbia to nominate eligible communities to be designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs). Under President Trump's Working Families Tax…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1584+ words) WASHINGTON'Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fin CEN) announced multiple actions combatting fuel smuggling schemes linked to Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), a violent drug cartel designated under…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (597+ words) Police on Tuesday were searching for the suspect behind a parcel bomb that seriously wounded a sanctioned multi-millionaire of Ukrainian origin and two others in Monaco, after the unprecedented attack rocked the super-safe principality. Officers in Monaco and neighbouring France…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (539+ words) Police on Tuesday were searching for the suspect behind a parcel bomb that wounded a businessman of Ukrainian origin and two others in Monaco, after the unprecedented attack rocked the super-safe principality. Dozens of officers were deployed in Monaco, while…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (547+ words) La Guaira (Venezuela) (AFP) - At a makeshift morgue in the quake-hit Venezuelan port of La Guaira, forensic experts in blue gowns and caps picked their way through dozens of bodies laid out in bags under the sun. The back-to-back 7. 2- and…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (599+ words) Stade (Germany) (AFP) - A gunman locked in a custody battle over his three-month-old daughter killed six people Monday at a German shelter for mothers and their children in the northern town of Stade, police said. 'The perpetrator had an appointment…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (645+ words) Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - Europe and China were seeking to gauge Monday whether trade frictions can be resolved without a fight, as top EU trade official Maros Sefcovic hosts his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Brussels for day-long talks. The European…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (439+ words) International search and rescue teams from at least 17 countries are being scrambled to Venezuela to help look for survivors of the devastating twin earthquakes, the United Nations said Friday. Getting those search and rescue teams to the scene is the…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (632+ words) Ochopee (United States) (AFP) - The controversial 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center -- a costly Florida facility that became a symbol of US President Donald Trump's deportation drive -- has shut down after less than a year in operation, officials said Thursday. Florida…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (555+ words) Paris (France) (AFP) - A French court ordered oil and gas giant Total Energies on Thursday to account for the emissions from the use of its products by clients, in a high-stakes climate case brought by NGOs and the city of…...