North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it no longer wants Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved in ongoing disarmament negotiations, after Pyongyang’s state media claimed he has been too reckless in his remarks about the talks.
Read moreItalian bank UniCredit will pay $1.3 billion to settle charges by the U.S. government that it violated sanctions against Iran and other countries.
Read moreSome seven years after it forfeited $227 million for violating Iran sanctions, the U.K.-based Standard Chartered Bank agreed Tuesday to pay more than $1 billion for related conduct.
Read morePresident Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to say he would reverse new sanctions on North Korea, defying his own Treasury Department.
Read moreRussian billionaire and metals magnate Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department on Friday, claiming U.S. sanctions are crippling his businesses and were only enforced as a result of politically motivated reports about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Read moreTwo years after the Trump administration designated the former vice president of Venezuela a drug kingpin, U.S. prosecutors brought an indictment Friday that puts him at the center of a sanctions-busting conspiracy hopping across Turkey and Russia.
Read moreMore sanctions are coming for banks that support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a team of foreign relations experts told lawmakers Thursday.
Read moreEuropean Union member states have unanimously rejected a proposal by the EU executive Commission to blacklist 23 countries and territories it believes pose a high risk of money laundering or terrorist financing.
Read moreA California appeals court affirmed sanctions and denial of fees against an attorney whose appellate briefs accused the judge of intentionally ruling incorrectly, referred to her as “succubustic” and used the phrases “disgraceful,” “pseudohermaphroditic misconduct” and “reverse peristalsis.”
Read moreCalling Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro an illegitimate former president, the U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions Friday against six military leaders who played a role in blocking humanitarian aid to the embattled South American nation.
Read morePresident Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea’s delegation called a rare news conference in the middle of the night to deny.
Read moreAlan M. Simon, a former justice with the Village Court of Spring Valley, must be disbarred for sanctioning a legal services organization for a perceived personal slight, and engaging in a physical fight with a student worker, a New York appeals court has ruled.
Read moreThe Securities Exchange Commission on Wednesday hit one of the biggest accounting and professional services firms in the world with a $2 million fine for operating with a conflict of interest.
Read moreThe International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday it has jurisdiction to entertain most of Iran’s claims the United States violated a decades-old treaty in seizing $2 billion in assets from state-owned entities.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Monday ratcheted up its efforts to oust embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, leveling sanctions against the state-owned oil company aimed at cutting off $11 billion in annual oil export revenue for Maduro’s government.
Read moreThe Trump administration is closely eyeing efforts in Europe to set up an alternative money payment channel to ease doing business with Iran and avoid running afoul of sanctions the U.S. has levied on the Islamic republic.
Read moreSidestepping opposition from Congress, U.S. Treasury officials lifted sanctions Sunday against aluminum giant United Company Rusal and two other businesses tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Read moreThe Chinese government on Tuesday demanded that the U.S. drop its request for the extradition of tech giant Huawei’s chief financial officer from Canada, in a case that has strained Chinese relations with the Canadian and U.S. governments.
Read moreA bid by the Trump administration to lift sanctions imposed on companies tied to a Russian oligarch faced swift but likely impotent opposition Thursday from the House of Representatives.
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