Turkey Begins Ratifying Mecca Defense Pact With Saudi Arabia And Pakistan

Crypto Scammers Using Couriers To Collect Cash, Avoid Detection: FBI Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Crypto scammers are using couriers to pick up cash from victims in person to avoid being traced by banks, the FBI is warning. The fraudsters first approach targets, typically seniors, with business or romantic proposals via social media, texts, or a fake cryptocurrency investment profile, the bureau said in a June 15 public service announcement alert. “After establishing a relationship with the victim, the scammer suggests investing in cryptocurrency and instructs the victim to download...

Putin Floats 'Chance' At Peace, While Ukraine Cites 'New Dynamic' To Get To Table Russian President Putin is this week attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, where he has issued key statements and at times fielded questions from the press. Among the most important questions asked from the press pool were on the matter of whether peace in the Ukraine conflict is still possible, given that this very week things have drastically escalated. Handout/Reuters Among the major escalations include Zelensky's threat to 'close Russian skies' through ramped-up drone and missile attacks, or in...

US Lifts Sanctions On Iraqi Airline Blacklisted Over IRGC Ties Via The Cradle The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lifted sanctions on Iraq's Fly Baghdad Airlines and two of its aircraft on Wednesday, clearing a carrier Washington had blacklisted in January 2024 over alleged support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.  The Baghdad-based carrier was delisted from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) list under each of its three registered names, Fly Baghdad Airlines Company, Fly Baghdad, and Iraq Express. @JetPhotos Two Boeing 737 aircraft flown by the airline, carrying the tail...