Russia and China on Friday blocked a resolution in the U.N. Security Council that called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages held by Hamas.
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a resolution calling
The White House says Israel's Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a delegation to Washington in coming days to hear U.S. warnings against Israel’s invasion of Rafah, Gaza's most densely populated city.
The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled sanctions against a network of companies and individuals Friday for facilitating illegal technology transfers from dozens of US firms to Iranian entities, including the country's central bank.The sanctions relate to Informatics Services Corporation (ISC), the technology arm of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), the Treasury Department said in a statement.It also sanctioned a number of alleged ISC subsidiaries and front companies based in Turkey and the United...
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
Russia on Thursday blocked the renewal of a panel of U.N. experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang. The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba,
In a significant reversal, the Biden administration Monday allowed passage of a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza — the first such call to emerge from the world body in more than five months of conflict that has claimed thousands of lives. The U.S. decision to abstain — instead of issuing a veto — marked the strongest testament to date of Washington's mounting impatience with Israel's conduct during the war, as relations between the allies have begun to sour. It is almost...
The United States called for a vote Friday on a U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza is “imperative.”
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday passed a non-binding resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Seeking to distance itself from the growing carnage in Gaza, the Biden administration was stymied on two fronts Friday. Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-backed resolution at the United Nations calling for an “immediate and sustained” cease-fire in the Gaza Strip — a turnabout from previous U.S. vetoes of measures aiming to bring a halt to nearly six months of fighting between Israel and the militant group Hamas. The U.N. vote came as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was in the midst of his...
Dmytro Kuleba to meet Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday