Sentences with phrase «state sponsor of terrorism»

Cuba was formally removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism late last month, a critical step toward rapprochement 54 years after Washington cut off relations at the height of the Cold War and imposed an economic embargo.

During his clerkship, Mr. MacDonald drafted numerous opinions in civil cases on complex legal issues, including claims against state sponsors of terrorism brought under the Foreign Sovereign...

During his clerkship, Mr. MacDonald drafted numerous opinions in civil cases on complex legal issues, including claims against state sponsors of terrorism brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and claims against the United States brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

The removal of Cuba from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list this week sparked a groundswell of excitement among U.S.... Continue Reading

And, finally, under the very broad authorization against terrorism he already has the authority, with Syria being designated as an official state sponsor of terrorism.

«Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

As I said after that vote, the Iran deal paved the way for a dangerous state sponsor of terrorism to achieve what it wanted most — nuclear weapons, and the means and funds to deliver them.

All males over the age of 16 from 25 selected countries (countries the United States considers state sponsors of terrorism plus others with large Muslim populations) are now subject to an extra level of scrutiny, including being fingerprinted, photographed, and interviewed by immigration officers.

The suit was filed under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows suits in U.S. courts against countries that have been designated state sponsors of terrorism, Courthouse News Service explains.

A disproportionate number — 338 altogether — came from those countries the US State Department labels state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Sudan, and Syria.»

The U.S. Treasury announced the action one day after President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, on its website.

A week ago, the Trump administration declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, further straining ties between governments that are still technically at war.

Trump did, however, resist some advisers» calls to threaten to declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism unless Islamabad pursued senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban and the allied Haqqani network.

Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. ambassador in Kabul, is among hawks advocating Pakistan be declared a state sponsor of terrorism, unless it cooperates.

The main impediment, from Cuba's point of view, is its listing by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.

But we can not predict with confidence whether more recent challenges to world security» state sponsors of terrorism and nonstate actors seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction» will evince the same degree of rationality.

@gerrit I think the important thing to note about Iran is that it's a state sponsor of terrorism.

The West's need to neutralise their enemies in the Arab world brought an end to sanctions against Libya in 2003 and 2004, and in 2006 the US removed Libya's designation as a «state sponsor of terrorism».

Shortly after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba and to rescind the island nation's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to lead a New York State Trade Mission there.

«This is a government that was only just removed as a state sponsor of terrorism one year ago, and it is not enough to rely on the Castro regime's word that these airports are safe,» Katko said.

President Donald Trump, in the latest demonstration of increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula, placed North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice removed the country as a state sponsor of terrorism in 2006.

Libya was already included on the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, but the Reagan administration wanted to make sure that Libyans were not able to come to the United States to learn to fly or repair aircraft, or study the nuclear sciences.

In 2006, the US fully restored diplomatic relations with Libya and its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism was lifted.

Since then, every few months, Washington and Havana have taken steps that seemed to inch the two nations closer to normalized relations, from the U.S. removing Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism to both reopening embassies in each other's capitals for the first time since 1961.

Is included by the United States Department of State on a current list of state sponsors of terrorism;