WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has imposed new sanctions on three individuals and an entity based in Malta for allegedly smuggling fuel from and drugs to Libya, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday. “Today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took […]
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Relations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have become increasingly strained in recent years, following the 2018 withdrawal by the Trump administration from the 2015 joint agreement pledging a peaceful development of nuclear power. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a Sunday statement that it would introduce […]
Washington on Friday imposed sanctions on a powerful Chinese company in the Xinjiang province and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities. The move is the latest blow to US-China relations. The US Treasury Department said it blacklisted the Xinjiang Production […]
The Bank of China says the country should prepare for potential US sanctions by increasing use of its own financial messaging network for cross-border transactions on the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. According to the report, greater use of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) instead of the Belgium-based SWIFT […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Indonesia is still committed to a 2018 deal over the purchase of Russian-made Su-35 military jets, despite the threat of US sanctions, the country’s ambassador in Moscow, Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi, said in an interview. “It is still going on,” Supriyadi said when asked about the status of […]
TRIPOLI (Sputnik) – The United Nations Security Council has approved a request by the Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) to hold a session of the Sanctions Committee at the end of July over violations of the arms embargo imposed on the country, Libya’s permanent representative to the UN, […]
A bipartisan proposal to expand US sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was introduced in Congress in early June, with Russia slamming the restrictive American measures as a violation of international law. The US House of Representatives has approved an amendment to the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA), stipulating […]
United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, had abandoned a prosecution it already won after it came to light that prosecutors and agents had failed to turn over evidence that could have helped the defendant. VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption toggle caption VW Pics/Universal Images […]
The Caribbean island nation first opened the door to the redollarization of the economy in late 2019, rolling back a 15-year-old policy established by Fidel Castro in 2004 to stop accepting the US currency as payment in some stores amid the intensification of banking sanctions pressure by Washington. Cuba has […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …and PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US is pushing targeted UN countries into forming defensive agreements because the countries know they can be picked off one by one. In strengthening ties with Syria, Iran is simply borrowing a page from America’s WWI slogan, […]
…by PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This comes as a surprise to see over a hundred French lawmakers do this as France is under Israeli Lobby pressure on the scale of the US. The “Lobby” which some claim works closely with Israeli intelligence, has pushed for anti-BDS laws to use […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0f/1079894227_0:288:3000:1976_1200x675_80_0_0_335a3f1d67695da64b39942c1306bdf5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007151079894181-us-extends-venezuela-sanctions-blocking-creditors-from-seizing-citgo/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has delayed until 20 Oct a measure preventing bondholders of seizing majority ownership of the US-based petroleum refiner and marketer CITGO, which was pledged as collateral in an earlier bond sale by Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, […]
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Trump’s Harsh Sanctions Lead To Iran-China Partnership By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. July 15, 2020 Trump’s Harsh Sanctions Lead To Iran-China Partnership2020-07-152020-07-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/iranhina-e1594776617914.png200px200px Above photo: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi shakes hands with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on December 31, 2019, in Beijing, […]
China has said it would impose sanctions on the US after US President Donald Trump has signed legislation to punish Beijing for “oppressive acts” in Hong Kong and an executive order ending all preferential treatment for the city. “The US law…maliciously denigrates Hong Kong’s national security legislation, threatens to impose […]
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump signed legislations that suspended the US preferential treatment for Hong Kong and envisaged sanctions over Chinese officials responsible for implementation of Hong Kong national security law. China strongly opposed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act signed earlier by Donald Trump and expressed intentions to respond with sanctions […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – More than 60 Canadian lawmakers called for Magnitsky law sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for alleged human rights abuses in Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang in an open letter addressed to the government. “We, the signatories, call on the Government of Canada to invoke Justice for Victims […]
Beijing is imposing sanctions on US arms firm Lockheed Martin for its involvement in a missile deal with Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory. The move could further worsen relations between the US and China. Lockheed Martin is reportedly a major contractor for Washington’s $620 million package to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007141079877792-china-reportedly-threatens-sanctions-on-lockheed-martin-amid-planned-us-arms-sales-to-taiwan/ On Thursday, the United States approved a $620mln recertification package to Taiwan for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 air defence missiles. The deal comes less than two months after the US approved a sale of torpedoes to the breakaway province. Beijing will put sanctions on […]
On Monday, the British government imposed sanctions against two North Korean ministries that London suspects of being involved in forced labour, torture, and murder in the DPRK’s prison camps. Pyongyang has slammed the UK for slapping sanctions against North Korea, accusing Britain of meddling in the Communist nation’s domestic affairs. […]
The UN Security Council has finally reached a compromise, agreeing to keep one checkpoint in militant-controlled Idlib open for aid deliveries from Turkey. After vetoing two initial drafts, Russia and China abstained from voting. Seeking to limit the number of border crossings outside of Syrian government control, Russia vetoed two Western resolutions […]
The American “maximum pressure” policy will not prevent Iran from boosting its fuel production capacities, a senior government official maintained, as he inaugurated a massive oil extraction project in the country’s southwest. “We will go ahead despite all these sanctions,” Iranian oil minister Bijan Zangeneh said on Saturday, speaking ahead […]
Attendants refill teacups as Chen Quanguo (center), Communist Party secretary of China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, listens to a speaker during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on March 12, 2019. The Politburo member is […]
Beijing said on Friday it will impose reciprocal measures in response to US sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing that the US action represented serious interference in China’s affairs and was deeply detrimental […]