Treasury to shut arms sales section
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Government's controversial defence export services organisation is to be disbanded.
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The British Treasury said it would facilitate a sale of the troubled mortgage lender while trying to ensure that taxpayers will not have to pay for the bankâs rescue.
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With the federal ban on assault weapons set to expire next Monday, gun manufacturers are marketing military-style firearms and are ready to sell them as soon as Sept. 14, a consumer group said Tuesday.
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John Kerry linked U.S. assault weapon sales to worries about terrorism Friday and said President Bush was bowing to the National Rifle Association by not pushing to keep alive an expiring ban.
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Thousands of toy guns have been pulled from the shelves of costume shops across the state as part of a settlement between the New York attorney general's office and two national wholesalers.
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KIEV -- A government investigation into illicit weapons sales by officials loyal to former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma has led to indictments or arrests of at least six arms dealers accused of selling nuclear-capable missiles to Iran and China, a high-ranking intelligence official said yesterday.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has shut down its online document library, pending a review to determine what potentially sensitive documents should be removed because they might be useful to terrorists, the agency said Tuesday.
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US and Haitian officials have discussed ending the 13-year arms embargo against the troubled Caribbean nation, Haitian radio reported Thursday.
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MOSCOW, July 14 -- Russia on Saturday formally suspended its participation in a conventional arms treaty dating from the last years of the Cold War that limited NATO and Russian military deployments in Europe.
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The government said Thursday that it plans to ban deactivated firearms by the end of the year after a huge increase in the number of model and pellet guns that have been converted to fire live ammunition.
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Freddie Mac will shut down the market-making operations of its securities sales and trading unit as it restructures some mortgage-securities operations, the government-sponsored home-mortgage company said Monday.
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac announced Monday that it is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others - moves that experts said should tighten the company's internal controls after an accounting scandal.
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The US is ready to hold back military technology from Euro-pean allies over EU steps to revoke its arms embargo on China, the Financial Times reported yesterday.
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The U.S. government is on its way to  brokering about $20 billion in arms sales in the fiscal year  that began October 1, steady with last year's near-record  total, the Pentagon official responsible for such sales said on  Monday.
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The U.S. Treasury Department on  Friday ordered banks to freeze any assets of the militant group  led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed  responsibility for a series of bombings, kidnappings and  killings in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - After the Pentagon&#39;s national missile defense system failed a key test this week, the Bush administration has dropped its plans to activate the system by the end of the year.
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Prudential Financial Inc.  said on Wednesday that it will shut down its stock research and trading business, in the insurer's latest pullback from a rocky 26-year stay on Wall Street.