Dan Boylan

Nation’s top voting equipment vendors grilled by Senate on election security

The Senate's leading election security advocates blasted the country's top voting equipment vendors on Wednesday for potentially failing to shore up ballot boxes despite November's midterm elections already being underway with primaries.

July 11, 2018

Bahrain warned to hold fair elections by U.S. lawmakers

The tiny and sometimes troubled Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, must allow its electorate to "express themselves peacefully" during an election in the wake of pro-democracy uprisings, heads of a bipartisan congressional human rights commission have warned.

July 10, 2018

U.S. could issue Iran oil-sanction waivers: Pompeo

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said waivers could be granted to countries that need Iranian oil amid the Trump administration's escalating effort to throttle Tehran by re-imposing strict U.S. sanctions later this year.

July 10, 2018

Nicaragua crisis leaves 38 dead in what NGO calls deadliest day yet of anti-Ortega protests

The Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights (CENIDH) reported that 38 people were killed on Sunday in three parts of the country where clashes exploded between police and protesters of President Daniel Ortega.

July 10, 2018

Ticketmaster breach part of a massive credit card skimming operation, analysis shows

The recent Ticketmaster breach of highly sensitive personal and financial information was part of a massive credit card skimming operation that targeted more than 800 e-commerce sites worldwide, new research has found.

July 10, 2018

EU-Ukraine summit focuses on ‘Russian aggression’ as EU extends sanctions on Moscow

Leaders from the European Union and Ukraine have gathered for a summit Monday to discuss Russia, the same day EU sanctions on Moscow have been extended because of the Kremlin's annexation of the Crimea and continuing support of separatists in eastern Ukraine.

July 9, 2018

KLM, CMA CGM join companies pulling business from Iran over reimposed U.S. sanctions

Dutch airline KLM and cargo shipping leader CMA CGM have joined the growing list of major multinational companies ending their business with Iran because of reimposed U.S. sanctions.

July 8, 2018

People’s Bank of China economist predicts U.S. tariffs will have little short-term impact on Beijing

The trade war will between Washington and Beijing will be difficult for the U.S. to sustain as many tariff targets are produced by joint ventures in China, predicts one of China's leading economists.

July 6, 2018

Three high-profile Nicaraguans have been sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act

Three high-profile Nicaraguans have been sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act, Trump administration officials announced Thursday, as Washington increases pressure on the Central American country recently rocked by major anti-government protests that have left more than 250 dead.

July 5, 2018

Iran blames rising oil prices on Trump tweets

Present Trump's recent tweets urging the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce oil prices are actually having the opposite effect and driving prices up "by at least $10 per barrel" -- one of Iran's top oil officials said on Thursday.

July 5, 2018

Senate Intelligence committee backs finding that Russia tried to help Donald Trump

The U.S. intelligence community's initial assessment that Russia secretly tried to interfere with the 2016 election to boost Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton was "well-supported," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in an unclassified report.

July 3, 2018

Hassan Rouhani calls Trump plan to end Iranian oil exports ‘a baseless fantasy’

The battle of wills between Tehran and the Trump administration escalated Tuesday as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a U.S. drive to completely cut off his country's oil exports a "baseless fantasy" as he lobbied European nations to stick with the 2015 nuclear deal that President Trump has abandoned.

July 3, 2018

For Donald Trump critics, ‘collusion’ packs a punch

"Collusion" has become the defining issue of the Russia election-meddling controversy — mainly because no two people appear to define the word the same way.

July 2, 2018

Coalition of former transatlantic leaders offer chilling election security warning

With more than 20 major elections scheduled in the next two years, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are still not prepared to fend off outside attacks to meddle in campaigns and election counts, an international bipartisan group of political, technology, business and media leaders warned Monday.

July 2, 2018

Hassan Rouhani, Iranian president, scrambles to save nuclear deal with trip to Europe

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has begun a three-day trip to Western Europe Monday in a diplomatic scramble by Tehran to rally support for the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal, which the United States left in May.

July 2, 2018

For Marco Rubio, U.S clash with Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello gets personal

While the Florida Republican initially rebuffed related questions, details soon emerged that Rubio's extra security actually stemmed from death threats made by the man widely regarded as Venezuela's second-in-command, Diosdado Cabello.

June 27, 2018

Venezuela sanctions complicated by oil price increase

The Trump administration's hope that economic pressure will punish Venezuela's socialist government shift toward authoritarianism is running into challenges.

June 27, 2018

World sees good, bad and ugly in U.S. ‘zero tolerance’ immigration debate

America's raging debate over the Trump's administration's policy of separating children from parents caught illegally entering the U.S. has been met with a wide range of global opinion, from outrage to sober reminders of harsh immigration regulations of the past.

June 22, 2018

Leading GOP lawmakers urge Mnuchin to close secret Obama Iran nuclear deal loopholes

Key Republican lawmakers are urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to push international money-laundering regulators to seal what they say is a loophole that the Obama administration secretly sought to exploit to connect Iran with American banks, despite repeatedly assuring Congress that Tehran would not be given access to the U.S. financial system under the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.

June 21, 2018

Victoria Nuland, linked to anti-Trump dossier, says White House not countering Russian threat

Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele visited the State Department just weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election to discuss the findings of his now-notorious dossier that detailed then-candidate Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia, a Senate investigation heard on Wednesday.

June 20, 2018