Canadian prosecutors fired back at Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s legal team’s claims of unfairness in her extradition hearing Thursday, arguing that comments made by former President Donald Trump did not affect the hearing.
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Blaming the Kremlin for trying to kill the charismatic opposition leader with a nerve agent, the Biden administration issued sanctions Tuesday against Russia.
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Prosecutors claim Meng Wanzhou’s defense wants an extradition judge to overstep her ‘limited role’ by looking at issues more appropriate for trial.
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Iran officially has begun restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities, state TV reported Tuesday, a bid to pressure European countries and U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift crippling economic sanctions and restore the 2015 nuclear deal.
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The sanctions over Russia’s treatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny include asset freezes for four top officials and a ban on travel into the EU.
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The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on 19 more officials in Venezuela accused of undermining democracy or rights abuses in the crisis-torn South American country.
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BEIJING (AP) — Struggling under U.S. sanctions, Huawei unveiled a folding smartphone with an 8-inch-wide screen Monday to show off
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A senior executive for the Chinese tech giant Huawei lost a British High Court bid Friday to access banking records which she said would help her battle extradition from Canada to the U.S.
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A federal court in New York conditionally dismissed a suit brought by hundreds of judgment creditors of Iran against Turkey’s Halkbank relating to claims it skirted U.S. sanctions against Iran and supported state-sponsored terrorism. Most of the plaintiffs do not live in the U.S. and Turkey would be a more appropriate forum for the case.
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Iran’s millions-strong legion of gamers revel in online worlds, but they have to fight daily real-life obstacles imposed by U.S. sanctions in their quest to level up and keep playing.
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Mines, banks, petroleum, agriculture, tourism: Myanmar’s ruling junta has vested interests in large swathes of the country’s economy, providing it a colossal — and closely guarded — fortune that the United States has targeted with sanctions.
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After a military coup led to mass arrests for hundreds of Myanmar’s democratic leaders, Biden announced punitive actions Wednesday, including cutting off generals’ access to U.S.-held funds.
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The United Nations’ high court ruled Wednesday that it has jurisdiction to hear a dispute brought by Iran against the United States over the reinstatement of sanctions in 2018.
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President Joe Biden on Monday threatened new sanctions on Myanmar after its military staged a coup and arrested the civilian leaders of its government, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The judge found current bail conditions for Meng Wanzhou are already the “minimum” required to keep her from fleeing and rejected her claims she’s at increased risk of Covid-19 because of her security detail.
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Sales of smartphones made by Chinese telecom giant Huawei plunged in the latest quarter of 2020 as they were hit by U.S. sanctions on its suppliers, research firm Canalys said on Friday.
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Venezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
Read moreThree law faculty and a human rights lawyer filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Friday, claiming that the government’s sanctions against the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Criminal Court prevents the plaintiffs from providing legal services to victims of atrocity crimes.
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The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump’s last week in office.
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Last month, a federal judge held Portland in contempt of court for violent protest policing. Now, he’s deciding which sanctions might prevent police from doing it again.
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