HSBC Holdings, accused in a Senate report this week of exposing the U.S. financial system to illegal funds from Saudi Arabian terrorists, Mexican drug cartels and rogue regimes in North Korea and Cuba, will send a lineup of executives Tuesday to face a Senate subcommittee and apologize. In a statement, Europe’s largest bank - which has a substantial presence in the U.S. - said it “will acknowledge that, in the past, we have sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking for drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa. Treasury also designated a Colombia-based individual under its terrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, for directing Hizballah’s fundraising activities in the Americas. This individual was previously designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his...

During a meeting with Costa Rican Vice President Dr. Alfio Piva in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that there were increasing signs that Venezuela, headed by President Hugo Chavez, is involved in funding Iran's nuclear program and some of its military projects. "This is not being done without receiving something in return. Apparently, the Iranians have promised Venezuela that they will share their developments with the South American country,"...

Venezuela has transferred at least one F-16 fighter to Iran in an attempt to help it calibrate its air defenses, in preparation for a possible Israeli or U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities, reports Spanish newspaper ABC. ABC, one of the three largest Spanish dailies and aligned with the ruling rightist party, wrote that the transfer, in 2006, was supervised by one of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's closest aides. The paper's Washington correspondent, Emili J. Blasco, said the story was...

Iranian Regime President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a new world order today during remarks at the G20 meetings in Brazil. Fars News reported: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the world powers for their wrong policies, and reiterated his call for the establishment of a new world order based on justice and friendship. “The widening North-South divide and various crises and worries, including crises of family and identity, wars, occupations and revenge-seeking,...

The presidents of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Bolivia, Evo Morales, met today in La Paz, were treated warmly and strengthened their alliance against the United States, which has asked international pressure to control the Islamic republic’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad was in La Paz less than five hours, on his third visit since 2007, before moving to Rio de Janeiro to attend the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20). The Iranian president, who called Morales...

The manager of Venezuela’s drone program is an engineer who helped build ballistic missiles for Iran. The engineer’s identity raises new questions about the purposes behind Venezuela’s drone program. But it’s also only one part of a mystery involving drones shipped from Iran to Venezuela while hidden in secret cargo containing possibly more military hardware than just ‘bots. According to El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister paper of The Miami Herald, US...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embarked a tour of Latin America on Monday night which includes stops in Bolivia, Brazil for the Rio+20 summit and Venezuela, reported. Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, Vice-President in Executive Affairs Hamid Baghaei and Vice-President for International Affairs Ali Sa'eidlou accompany President Ahmadinejad during the trip. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive in Bolivia on June 19 to meet with his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales before...

Hundreds of Jews, gays and rights activists jointly marched along Rio's famed Ipanema beach Sunday to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attendance at the UN summit on sustainable development. "We want the world to know that religious hatred harms the environment and Ahmadinejad represents hatred. Sustainable development encompasses human rights," said Ivanir dos Santos, of the commission against religious intolerance. Unlike previous demonstrations organized by the...

According to Chavez, Lukashenka and Ahmadinejad will take part in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro on June 20-22. "They are going to Rio and would like to visit Venezuela to greet us and to promote peaceful joint projects", informs RIA "Novosti" quoting the Venezuelan leader. Chavez claimed earlier that we was expecting Lukashenka to arrive on June 26.