Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) President Donald Trump has filed a civil lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the US Treasury Department, seeking at least $10 billion in damages over the unauthorised disclosure of his tax return information by an agency contractor who later pleaded guilty to a felony.The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, names the IRS and the Treasury Department as defendants and was brought by Trump alongside his two eldest sons…
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Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) The United States has designated the Egyptian, Lebanese and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorist organisations”, citing in part what it described as their support for the Hamas terror group, in a move that is set to impose sweeping sanctions on one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements.The decision, which Washington formally initiated in November last year, will trigger financial and travel restrictions against the thre…
Havana, Dec 21 (IANS) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said that the US government’s designation of the legitimate government of Venezuela as a “foreign terrorist organization” is a politically motivated act.”It is a new arbitrary, fraudulent, unilateral and politically motivated act. It shows, once again, the lack of credibility of these decisions and the manipulation of terrorism as a political weapon, which also weaken international efforts against that scourge,” Rodriguez said…