The House should take its own sweet time and investigate many more aspects of the president’s perfidious behavior.Dec. 10, 2019A television screen in the Capitol subway on Tuesday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi was essentially forced into impeachment. Now, after a little less than two months of investigation, she hopes to bring the process to a close. On Tuesday, House Democrats revealed their articles of impeachment against the president. One focuses on abuse of power, the other on…

Middle East|U.S. Turns Up Pressure on Iran With Sanctions on Transportation FirmsWashington’s sanctions have crippled the Iranian economy, and protesters have taken to the streets to criticize the government in Tehran. In response, Iranian security forces have killed hundreds. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced sanctions targeting Iran’s largest shipping company and a major airline at a news conference on Wednesday.Credit...Erik S. Lesser/EPA, via ShutterstockDec. 11, 2019WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the United States plans…

BERN (Reuters) - A humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran could be up and running within months, senior Swiss and U.S. officials told Reuters, helping supply Swiss goods to the struggling population without tripping over U.S. sanctions. General view shows the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland December 10, 2019. Picture taken December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannFood, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are exempt from sanctions that Washington reimposed last year after U.S. President Donald Trump walked away…

(CNN)The US announced a fresh round of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, targeting an Iranian shipping network they say is smuggling "lethal aid" to Yemen, and three agents of an Iranian airline company. "The Iranian regime uses its aviation and shipping … Link to Source

The United States is imposing new sanctions on Iran's largest shipping company and airline for helping the Islamic Republic develop ballistic missiles, announced Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a State Department briefing on Wednesday. The sanctions will impact the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and it's China-based subsidiary, E-Sail Shipping, and Mahan Air. These companies helped Iran with its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. "These programs involved the siphoning of funds away from the oppressed Iranian…

In its annual survey, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that at least 250 journalists are imprisoned around the world, largely by authoritarian leaders. China nudged past Turkey as the leading jailer of journalists this year, a press advocacy group reported in its annual survey, partly because of severe repression in China’s Xinjiang region and Turkey’s eradication of “virtually all independent reporting,” which has left many reporters unemployed, driven into exile or intimidated into self-censorship. The survey, released Wednesday by…

The visit of Sergey Lavrov to Washington came at a delicate moment in the relationship between President Trump and Russia.Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, leaving the White House on Tuesday after a meeting with President Trump.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York TimesDec. 10, 2019WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Moscow not to interfere in American elections while meeting on Tuesday with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister. But Mr. Lavrov denounced accusations of election interference and said…

What happens when an Iranian marries a South Korean and their families meet? Show more Hossein Sharif is an Iranian boy, about to marry Hee Sue, a South Korean girl. As the families begin to meet, Sharif discovers all the criss-crossing roads that the couple's home countries have travelled. In the last 50 years, South Korea and Iran have switched places in the world table of economic prosperity. South Korea has risen while Iran has fallen behind. Hossein and Hee…