'TOO LATE': Yu Pei-chen, a Taoyuan councilor and ex-army general, said the
A leaked draft bill seen by POLITICO would target ruling party lawmakers and law enforcement officers, as well as possible Russian agents in the country.
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that President Joe Biden should restore President Donald Trump's 2020 sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Biden reversed soon after taking office in 2021.
Shafaqna English- Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blamed the US sanctions for deadly copter crash. Javad Zarif offered condolences over the martyrdom of President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation . One of the causes of this heartbreaking incident is the United States, which by sanctioning the sale of
France's sports minister has called for Monaco to be sanctioned after one of their players covered over an anti-gay message on the team's shirt during the team's final league game on Sunday.
By Anna Shiryaevskaya and Ewa Krukowska (Bloomberg) — Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe and its allies have looked for ways to curb Moscow’s fossil fuel revenues without
By Marc Champion
Georgia is having its “Maidan moment.” With parallels to Ukraine mounting fast, the question for the US and Europe is how to respond; for the protesters, it’s whether they should also have a “Yanukovych moment,” in which they try to topple the government. The answer to the first question is complicated, but for the second it’s simple: No.
As in Kyiv during the winter of 2013-2014, huge crowds have been taking to the streets of the Georgian capital...
(Bloomberg) — Dozens of tankers remain stuck doing nothing months after being sanctioned by the Treasury Department — a signal of the US’s scope to disrupt Moscow’s petroleum supply chain
Ofcom is “starting the process for consideration of a statutory sanction against GB News”, it has announced.
The Netherlands and France are pushing for sanctions from the European Union against any financial institution in the world that helps the Russian army acquire goods or technology to make weapons. The press bureau Reuters reported this based on documents they have seen.France and the Netherlands hope that a ban like this would powerfully incentivize financial institutions in the Middle East, Turkey, or even China to refrain from making deals to deliver EU-sanctioned goods to Russia.
May 15, 2024 (WASHINGTON) The U.S. Department of the Treasury Wednesday imposed sanctions on two commanders of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for their role in a recent military campaign in North Darfur that has caused civilian casualties and threatened a fragile peace process. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Ali Yagoub Gibril, the RSF Central Darfur commander, and Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed, the group's head of operations. The sanctions...