Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to stop violating its landmark nuclear deal in a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences through talks while also starting a process that could bring back punishing U.N. sanctions on Tehran.
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Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, the Trump Administration announced Friday that it would sanction a number of top Iranian officials as well as leading steel and iron producers in the region.
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Responding to Iran’s retaliatory strike on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq, President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would invoke more sanctions on Iran so long as it continues to pursue development of nuclear power.
Read moreFinance Minister Bruno Le Maire urged the United States Monday to renounce threatened sanctions on France in a dispute over taxation of tech giants, and warned of possible EU retaliation.
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President Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled U.S. troops in retaliation for the assassination, in Iraq, of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Read moreA federal judge granted ExxonMobil summary judgment against the U.S. Treasury Department’s $2 million fine, for allegedly violating Ukraine-related sanctions regulations.
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Erik Prince, a major Republican donor and founder of controversial security firm Blackwater, has been referred to the U.S. Treasury Department for possible sanctions violations tied to his recent trip to Venezuela for a meeting with a top aide of President Nicolas Maduro, two senior U.S. officials said.
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The Philippines banned two U.S. senators and threatened to introduce visa restrictions for Americans entering the country, the president’s spokesman said Friday, if Washington pushes ahead with sanctions against Filipino officials involved in jailing a leading opposition leader.
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Weeks after slamming Halkbank’s campaign to delay criminal prosecution for a record-breaking money laundering scheme, a federal judge refused Thursday to further pause the case pending the Turkish state-run bank’s appeal.
Read moreTwo former executives claim in federal court that Standard Chartered Bank (of London, Dubai and New York) fired them for reporting schemes by which the bank helped Iran duck international sanctions.
Read moreDefrauded former Corinthian College students asked a federal judge to order more sanctions for the U.S. Department of Education and its secretary Betsy DeVos, after the department it revealed it has collected – and continues to collect – over $20 million from the students after being ordered to stop.
Read moreThe Russian government has vowed to retaliate against U.S. sanctions on a new Russia-Germany pipeline, work on which was suspended on Saturday.
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Five months after being freed from federal prison for his role in a record-breaking scheme to bust Iran sanctions, ex-Halkbank manager Hakan Atilla pressed ahead Monday at the Second Circuit on an unusual criminal appeal.
Read moreA federal court in Texas sanctioned the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its executive director for violating a $4.5 million settlement agreement in which they agreed to fix faulty air conditioning in housing that exceeded 88 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
Read moreEuropean Union leaders will renew economic sanctions against Russia when they meet for a summit this week, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday praised U.S. sanctions on Iran, and asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to apply even stronger pressure.
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China on Wednesday warned that a “price must be paid” after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation seeking sanctions against senior Chinese officials for the crackdown on mainly Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.
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An indictment unsealed by a Georgia federal judge charges Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen and several companies in a conspiracy to circumvent American trade sanctions by disguising the destination of drilling equipment.
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China said Monday it will suspend U.S. Navy visits to Hong Kong and sanction several U.S. pro-democracy organizations in retaliation for U.S. congressional of legislation supporting human rights in the semi-autonomous territory.
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Last month, a pair of former high-school sweethearts became the first Russians to win a gold prize at the cheese industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. The couple’s success shows how far Russia’s cheese-making industry has come since President Vladimir Putin banned Western food imports in 2014 in a tit-for-tat measure over the Ukraine crisis.
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