Nine months after the sanctions deal took effect, foreign banks are reluctant to get involved because of concerns that they could be caught up in restrictions applying to U.S. banks.
The CSU's Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder was quick to call it the "second massive wake-up call" in two weeks.
Critics in the U.S. Congress argue that Iran could use passenger jets for military purposes such as transporting fighters to battle U.S. troops or allies in Syria.
With 93 percent of the votes counted, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party is on course to win 76 percent of the seats in the country’s parliament.
The news comes as the United States halted its coalition airstrike against the militant group in the area after learning it mistakenly struck the Syrian military.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives look set to suffer a second electoral blow in two weeks in a Berlin city vote on Sunday.
Militants attacked an Indian army brigade headquarters near the de factor border with Pakistan on Sunday.
The U.S. relayed its “regret” through the Russian government for what it described as the unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces in the strike, a senior Obama administration official said.
The latest report comes a day after investigators confirmed that a flap section found off Tanzania belonged to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
Three Turkish soldiers and four Kurdish militants were killed Saturday in clashes in the southeastern Hakkari province.
The South African cleric and anti-apartheid icon was discharged from hospital Wednesday after a successful surgery to treat recurring infections.
Washington and Moscow have agreed to share targeting information against jihadist fighters that are their common enemies, if the truce holds.
“Such decisions that are biased in favor of the occupation represent a new black chapter in the record of the ... American administration,” said the Hamas official.
The phenomenon gets its name from an era when farmers used the fall moon to help finish the harvest on time.
Japan's dwindling birth rate could also be linked to a drop in sexual relationships between young people, a survey suggests.
Buhari, who was elected on an anti-corruption campaign in 2015, was accused of stealing Obama's words by Nigerian newspapers.
The California-based tech giant took privacy to a new level when it obscured the face of a cow in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
The galaxy, 555 million light-years from Earth, is exhibiting atypical variations in its brightness — a phenomenon scientists attribute to two dueling supermassive black holes.
The meeting in Bratislava did not include the United Kingdom, which has yet to leave the 28-nation bloc, and was hence considered an "informal" summit.
A new study suggests that Mars may have been host to microbial life for a much longer time than scientists had hitherto believed possible.
The move prolonged the six-year-long legal standoff with prosecutors and cleared the way for the WikiLeaks founder to be questioned in London next month.
Researchers believe a dinosaur from the genus Psittacosaurus used countershading, a camouflage method used by some present-day animals.
The Global Fishing Watch tool, developed by Google, Oceana and SkyTruth, uses satellite tracking and data broadcast by ships to track fishing vessels across the world’s oceans.
Scientists at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, using satellite data from NASA, said the ice cover reached its minimum extent on Sept. 10, standing at 1.60 million square miles.
Sanctions were imposed on the country, formerly known as Burma, in 1997 after decades under a military dictatorship that stifled dissent and showed little regard for human rights.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a report that strongly criticized Washington for pouring billions of dollars into Afghanistan with so little oversight.
The number of dead crabs started increasing in June and accelerated into July and August, with reports of up to 10 crabs washing up in a day.
Men hit the gym because they're afraid of the way they look in the mirror, a new study found.
An alleged leadership change pushed by ISIS has created a rift and violence.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched the revolution that led to Spain’s departure from Mexico.
