The Council imposed restrictive measures against 33 persons and two entities linked to the death in a strict penal colony of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
The US announced sanctions on Thursday against Nicaraguan Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, accusing her of assisting the “ruthless oppression of peaceful opposition members” in the country. The Treasury Department dubbed Morales Urbina a "key actor in the Nicaraguan regime’s unjust persecution of political prisoners," according to a press release announcing its sanction. Morales
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The US government is reportedly weighing new measures against Chinese chipmakers behind Huawei narrowing the technological gap with western companies, revealed with the release of the Mate 60 Pro despite tighter sanctions.
New Zealand did not follow the US and UK in imposing financial restrictions after accusing Beijing of links to cyber-attacksPoliticians, journalists and critics of Beijing were among those targeted by cyber-attacks run by groups backed by China, western intelligence services said this week.The separate cyber-attacks hit the US, UK and New Zealand – all members of the Five Eyes alliance. The network of five countries, which also includes Canada and Australia, share security related intelligence....
Two people and a China-affiliated company will have assets frozen and be subject to a travel ban.
Thanks to Bloomberg, Kepler and Reuters information agencies, its relatively easy to monitor the movement of Russian oil online. They also allow people to study weekly supply volumes by consumer countries and shipping destinations, as well as prices, discounts, refuseniks and new markets. The trade in Russian oil has never been so dynamic, transparent and […]
NEW DELHI/MOSCOW, March 20 (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, will not buy Russian oil loaded on tankers operated by shipper Sovcomflot (SCF) after recent U.S.
On Wednesday, the United States and Great Britian announced that they are sanctioning two individuals for using an online news provider to raise money for the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations. The two governments allege that Mustafa Ayash, who founded the popular Arabic media site Gaza Now, began his illicit fundraising activities shortly
The Lords Conduct Committee described Lord Geidt’s breach as ‘an oversight’ and limited to a one-off meeting in which he played “a very limited role’.
Recorder Simon Myerson KC's behaviour on the social media platform was found to have amounted to misconduct following complaints. No details were outlined as to which messages posted by Recorder Myerson were found to be "inappropriate". He has more than 20,000 followers and since joining the platform, which is now known as X, in 2012, has posted more than 135,000 times. A spokesperson for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office said: "The Lady Chief Justice, with the Lord Chancellor’s...
The government has issued sanctions and summoned the Chinese ambassador over state-affiliated cyber-attacks which spies could use to target UK-based dissidents.