President Joe Biden issues an executive order consolidating the funds as part of a plan to split it between aid and 9/11 victims The US government has begun freeing up some $7 billion in frozen Afghan funds held in American banks on Friday – without providing Taliban access to the money. The White House announced […]
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Beirut blast probe frozen for second time in weeks after top judge issues warrant to arrest former finance minister
The judge leading the probe into last year’s explosion in Beirut port has had to pause his investigation, for the second time in weeks, shortly after handing out an arrest warrant for Lebanon’s ex-finance minister. On Tuesday, Judge Tarek Bitar issued a request for the arrest of former finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil, a senior […]


