News of the day from around the globe, March 29

Workers have just completed a massive operation to lift the corroding 6,800-ton Sewol from the sea, and recovering the remains of the missing victims would put the country a step closer to finding closure to one its deadliest maritime disasters.

Prosecutors had argued he carried out the attack to put pressure on the French government to yield to the demands of Japanese pro-Palestinian gunmen who had taken hostages at the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.

Seeking to prove their commitment to Israel, senior U.S. lawmakers are backing bipartisan legislation that would slap Iran with new sanctions while maintaining rigorous enforcement of the landmark nuclear deal.

In exchange for Tehran rolling back its nuclear program, the U.S. and other world powers agreed to suspend wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions that had choked the Iranian economy.

The House bill, which is co-sponsored by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, targets Iran’s “illicit” ballistic missile development program.

The measure would shut out of the international financial system Iranian and foreign companies involved in the missile program — along with the banks that back them.