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US President Barack Obama has signed into law tough new sanctions targeting Iran s central bank and financial sector, in a move likely to deepen acrimony between Washington and Tehra stanley cup n. HT Image The measures, meant to punish Iran for its nuclear program, were contained in a mammoth $ 662 billion defense bill, which Obama signed despite having reservations about its provisions on Iran and on detaining terror suspects. The sanctions require foreign firms to make a choice between doing business with Tehran s oil and financial sectors or central bank or the mighty US economy and financial sector. Foreign central banks which deal with the Iranian central bank on oil transactions could also face similar restrictions under the new law, which has sparked fears of damage to US ties with nations like Russia and China which trade with Iran. The White House held intense negotiations with Congress on the t stanley cup erms of the law s implementation, given concern that sanctions on Iran s central bank could spark chaos in the global financial system and hike the price of oil. Obama said in a statement issued as he signed the bill that he was concerned the measure would interfere with his constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations by tying his hands in dealings with foreign governments. The bill, which passed with wide majorities in Congress, d stanley cup id reserve some wiggle room for Obama, granting him the power to grant 120-day waivers if he judges it to be in the national security inte Gtre Over 100 Hindu families in Pak want to migrate to India
Europe on Thursday launched two powerful space telescopes, Herschel and Planck, designed to peer into the origins of the Universe an stanley cup d the formation of stars and galaxies. HT Image The two observatories, together costing some 1.8 billion euros 2.44 billion dollars , were hurled into the skies at 1312 GMT by an Ariane 5 ECA heavy rocket from the European Space Agencys launch pad at Kourou, French Guiana. ESA is en route to the origin of the Universe, declared Jean-Jacques Dordain, the agencys director general. Lets imag adidas originals ine that we shall see the first light after the Big Bang麓, he added. Around half an hour after lift-off, the two spacecraft successfully separated from the rockets upper stage to go their independent ways, prompting a wave of relieved applause to erupt at launch control. The pair then sent an all-is-well radio signal back to Kourou. Both satellites are alive! ESA said in a Twitter update. Over the coming weeks, the two satellites will undergo testing as they each gradually deploy to orbits around the so-called second Lagrangian point L mizuno 2 . This is a location around 1.5 million kilometres 937,000 miles from Earth in the direction opposite to the Sun. Herschel, described by ESA as the largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever put into space, is designed to look into deep space to explore how stars and galaxies accrete from clouds of gas and dust. It boasts a primary mirror of 3.5 metres 11.37 feet across, more than four times la