BEIJING — China‘s Ministry of Commerce announced sanctions against Boeing and two other defense companies Monday for arms sales to Taiwan, on the day of Taiwan‘s presidential inauguration. The move is the latest in a series of sanctions Beijing has announced in recent years against defense companies for weapons sales to Taiwan, a self-ruled island […]
The Arizona Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling Thursday that had sanctioned the Arizona Republican Party for a lawsuit it brought following the 2020 general election. The party had challenged the procedures followed by Maricopa County (which includes the Phoenix metro area) in conducting the mandatory hand count required by law of roughly two […]
JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders on Sunday harshly criticized an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military. The decision, expected as soon as Monday, would mark the first time the U.S. has ever imposed sanctions on a unit inside the Israeli military and further strains […]
WASHINGTON — A Bangkok -based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 “egregious” violations of Iran sanctions, the U.S. Treasury announced on Friday. SCG Plastics Co. used U.S. banks to process $291 million in sales of Iranian high-density polyethylene resin from 2017 to 2018, according to the […]
Great news! A deal between adversaries in the Middle East has been apparently reached. Bad news: It’s between Joe Biden and the Israeli unity government. For the last couple of days, Biden has tried to convince the Israelis not to attack Iran after the mullahs sent hundreds of missiles and drones to attack Israel directly […]
Russia on Thursday vetoed a United Nations resolution keeping alive a program to monitor sanctions against North Korea’s nuclear program, in the latest sign of fast-warming ties with Pyongyang that have unnerved the U.S. and its regional allies. The Kremlin’s envoy to the UN told the Security Council before the vote that the monitoring program […]
The U.S. government imposed new economic sanctions Monday on a Chinese company linked to Beijing’s Ministry of State Security spy service, accusing the firm of conducting cyberattacks against critical U.S. infrastructure, the Treasury Department announced. In a related action, the Justice Department indicted seven Chinese state-linked hackers who were charged with targeting senior U.S. officials, […]
The U.S. Treasury Department this week slapped sanctions on two men and their Russia-based media companies after accusing them of being part of a disinformation scheme to mimic legitimate news websites to push Kremlin propaganda. The U.S. government targeted Ilya Gambashidze, founder of the Moscow-based company Social Design Agency, and Nikolai Tupikin, the CEO of […]
President Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s wife and daughter in California on Thursday. He promised Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya, and their daughter, Dasha, that the United States will announce sanctions Friday. Biden has been yammering about the sanctions to be announced today all week. He doesn’t even make it sound as though he will be […]
President Biden says the U.S. is levying 500 new sanctions against Russia’s military capabilities and the persons responsible for imprisoning Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died earlier this month. Mr. Biden said the sanctions are payback for Mr. Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison and designed to coincide with […]
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