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- NIA to probe against Headley's wife
- Fake US bonds worth $6 trillion seized
- US wants to wean India from Iranian crude
| NIA to probe against Headley's wife Posted: A Delhi court on Saturday gave green signal to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe the role of Pakistani-American and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Headley's second wife in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Special NIA Judge HS Sharma allowed the application of the prosecution to issue a letter of request to a competent authority for investigation in Morocco on the role of Faiza Outalha, Headley's second wife. The NIA told the court that it needed to investigate the role of Outalha, who visited India twice. NIA had earlier applied for sending a letter rogatory a letter of request to a foreign government for help in the investigation. The court said it would hand over the letter of request on February 29.
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| Fake US bonds worth $6 trillion seized Posted: Italian police on Friday said they seized fake US Treasury bonds with a face value of $ 6 trillion in Switzerland, a media report said. The bonds, more than a third of US national debt, were found inside makeshift compartments in three reinforced metal crates in Zurich. US officials confirmed that the bonds, dated 1934, were counterfeit. "These fictitious bonds were apparently part of a plan to defraud some Swiss banks," the US embassy in Rome said in a statement. Italian prosecutors said criminals had attempted to sell the bonds to emerging markets or use them to get loans from banks. Eight Italian members of a criminal network were arrested for international fraud and other financial crimes, the police said.
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| US wants to wean India from Iranian crude Posted: After imposing three new sanctions against Iran, the US is now holding talks with India, Pakistan, Russia and China about what they can do to "wean" from Iranian crude. "We are engaged in conversations with all of these governments with regard to the importance of implementing existing international, national sanctions," the US state department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters on Friday. But as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday, "we do assess that the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran is beginning to pinch them. And you see the fruit of that, and the fact that we, after many months, have Iran suggesting that we go back to the table," Nuland said. Asked about Pakistan's decision to go ahead with the construction of the gas pipeline between Iran and Pakistan, she said, "We have issues of concern and we've been very clear about those with the government of Pakistan. We think it's a bad idea; we've made that clear." On Israel blaming Iran's Quds Force for a string of attacks on Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia and Thailand, Nuland said, "I think, we are still where we are, that we wouldn't be surprised if the fingerprints and the trail lead back to Iran. However, we're not in a position to assess until the investigations of the host governments are complete."
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