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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. would impose sanctions on alleged terrorism financiers in Yemen, targeting eight individuals and an organization for supporting the militant groups Islamic State and al-Qaeda in Yemen.
The move was made “in partnership” with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, the Treasury Department said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. Mnuchin described the sanctions in a speech in Riyadh, calling them the first such “multilateral” effort in the Mideast and the result of a new program President Donald Trump established earlier this year to jointly target terrorist financing.
Qatar’s involvement is notable: the nation is the subject of a diplomatic isolation imposed by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE for its alleged financing of Mideast terrorist groups including Hezbollah. The U.S. has been seeking to resolve the dispute, and a senior administration official told reporters on Wednesday that Qatar has made unspecified progress in the matter.
“This bold and innovative multilateral approach is needed because terrorism poses a threat to all of our nations,” Mnuchin said in his speech.
Mnuchin is visiting the Middle East this week to discuss combating terrorist financing with officials in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. He will visit Israel, where he’ll meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the discussions will include the U.S.’s new harder line on Iran.
Trump this month refused to certify that Iran is in compliance with the multinational accord to curb its nuclear program, though he stopped short of repudiating the pact.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar set aside their differences to collaborate on the Yemen sanctions, said a senior administration official who requested anonymity to discuss the talks. The two Gulf Cooperation Council nations are at the center of a months-long dispute ever since the Saudi-led bloc cut off transport and economic links with Qatar.
“Our enemies have felt the effects of being blocked from the world financial system,” Mnuchin said. “They are finding it harder to raise, move, and distribute money. This will continue as a result of our efforts to evolve our counter-terror tools.”
The U.S. wanted to include additional targets in the sanctions, but faced push-back from other countries in the region, the official said.
— With assistance by Toluse Olorunnipa
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More than half of white Americans said there is discrimination against their race in contemporary America, according to a new poll.
A total of 55 percent of whites said they believed discrimination against their own race existed in America today in a new poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
But as NPR notes, fewer respondents could cite specific instances of this discrimination. Only nineteen percent of whites who were polled said they were discriminated against while applying for jobs, and 13 percent said the discrimination occurred when they were under consideration for a promotion. Just 11 percent said it was while they were applying to college or attending college, according to the poll.
NPR explained that the results showed a correlation among white respondents between income and response, with those making less money believing discrimination was more rampant.
Whites who were polled had the lowest percentage of affirmative responses, followed by Asian Americans at 61 percent. Comparatively, 92 percent of African Americans, 90 percent of people who identified as LGBTQ, 78 percent of Latinos, and 75 percent of Native Americans said discrimination existed against them.
The survey consisted of 3,453 respondents, 902 of whom were white. It was conducted from January 26 to April 9. The margin of error was +/-4.7%.
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