Latest Sanctions and embargoes News

Russian veto brings an end to the UN panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions

Mar. 28, 2024 16:17 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A veto Thursday by Russia ended monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program, prompting Western accusations that Moscow is seeking to avoid scrutiny as it allegedly violates the sanctions to buy weapons from Pyongyang for its war in Ukraine. ...

Myanmar's military makes its annual parade of strength despite unprecedented battlefield losses

Mar. 28, 2024 01:35 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council marked Armed Forces Day on Wednesday with a speech claiming that the nation’s youth were being tricked into supporting the resistance against army rule, and that ethnic armed groups allied with the resistance engage in drug...

Trump ally Jeffrey Clark disciplinary hearing begins over role trying to overturn 2020 election

Mar. 26, 2024 18:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark’s efforts to help then-President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election were characterized Tuesday as a coup attempt by Washington, D.C., Office of Disciplinary Counsel at a hearing to determine if Clark should be sanctioned. ...

US imposes more Iran sanctions and hits Syrian regime with penalties for drug trafficking

Mar. 26, 2024 12:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a money exchanger and a group of firms across six countries involved in commodity shipments and business transactions that benefit Iran's military and the Houthi militant group in Yemen and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. ...

EU slaps sanctions on Russian justice officials blamed for jailing Alexei Navalny

Mar. 22, 2024 10:14 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday imposed sanctions on the Russian justice and prison officials responsible for imprisoning opposition leader Alexei Navalny before his death last month. “Alexei Navalny’s slow killing by the Kremlin regime is a stark reminder of its...

US, G-7 allies warn Iran to back off deal to provide Russia ballistic missiles or face new sanctions

Mar. 15, 2024 15:33 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and allies warned Iran on Friday that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an advancing plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine. The Biden administration has raised...

US and allies warn Iran of new sanctions if Tehran moves forward with a ballistic missile deal with Russia

Mar. 15, 2024 11:07 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — US and allies warn Iran of new sanctions if Tehran moves forward with a ballistic missile deal with Russia.

US sanctions three Israeli West Bank settlers and their outposts for violence against Palestinians

Mar. 14, 2024 14:54 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on three extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank who are accused of harassing and attacking Palestinians to pressure them to leave their land. Two farms that the settlers run were also targeted...

Kemp signs Georgia law reviving prosecutor sanctions panel. Democrats fear it's aimed at Fani Willis

Mar. 13, 2024 16:42 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, potentially disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former President Donald Trump. “This...

On Russian TV ahead of the election, there's only one program: Putin's

Mar. 11, 2024 01:19 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Russians braved the cold for hours earlier this month to honor the opposition politician Alexei Navalny after his funeral. They chanted anti-war slogans and covered his gravesite with so many flowers that it disappeared from view. It was one of the...