The UN’s cultural agency called for emergency measures on Thursday to prevent further looting at the historic Iraqi city of Nimrud which has been wrecked by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group. Nimrud, founded in the 13th century BC on the Tigris river about ...
US President Barack Obama allowed US sanctions against Iran to be renewed on Thursday, but in a surprise move declined to actually sign the legislation that brings the sanctions into force. “The extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is becoming law without the president’s signature,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest ...
