The lame-duck Biden-Harris administration is slapping new sanctions on Israelis, while sending nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in additional funding to the Palestinians, adding insult to injury in the closing weeks of its failed policy.
Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari used the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday as a platform to demand sanctions relief for the terrorism-supporting regime in Tehran.
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that the incoming Trump administration will have to “cripple” Iran’s economy to keep them from promoting terrorism through their proxies and stated that if there are
The Iranian rial plummeted to an all-time low on Wednesday after Donald Trump secured reelection to the White House, signaling apprehension among the terrorist-supporting regime and a loss of confidence among its supporters.
The Iranian regime loudly insisted on Wednesday morning that the outcome of the U.S. presidential election does not matter to Tehran’s long-term plans, because there was no real difference between victorious President-elect Donald Trump and defeated Vice President Kamala Harris from the Iranian perspective.
China hit American drone manufacturer Skydio with sanctions this month, potentially cutting the company’s supply chain and preventing it from supplying more drones to the Ukrainian military.
The China-dominated BRICS economic bloc on Thursday announced it has added 13 nations as “partner countries,” including three African nations: Nigeria, Algeria, and Uganda. These partners will have much more limited involvement than full BRICS members, but some or all of them could aspire to membership in the future.
Michigan’s Democrat Senate candidate, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), remained silent as President Joe Biden declined to impose sanctions in 2021 on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind the Russian gas pipeline to Germany, which a donor to one of Slotkin’s Congressional campaigns lobbied for.
The China-led BRICS coalition published a declaration from its annual summit on Wednesday focused heavily on the alleged threat of “climate change,” condemnation of human rights sanctions on its rogue members states, and controlling “misinformation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin scored a public relations victory on the second day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, by embracing Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — a photo opportunity that sent the message that Western efforts to diplomatically and economically isolate Russia for invading Ukraine have failed.
During an interview with the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Wednesday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on criticism of the Biden administration that their Iran sanctions policy has allowed large sums of
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday that the BRICS economic bloc, led by China and Russia, is working to create its own international payment system because the existing Western system is too politicized, and too vulnerable to pressure from the United States.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” CNBC Contributor and Global Head of Commodity Strategy for RBC Capital Markets Helima Croft stated that “five years ago, we saw more significant sanctions enforcement” on Iranian oil, but “Now, we
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon stated that it’s crucial that the United States, along with other democracies, “will impose sanctions, crippling sanctions against Iran, because today they have
The Biden administration expanded its sanctions on Israelis on Tuesday, even as Israel faced attacks from Hezbollah and Iran, listing new sanctions against “Hilltop Youth,” an organization that does not actually exist.
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday, accusing Israel – with the “complicity” of the United States and the European Union – of “the greatest crime of extermination and genocide since the one committed by Hitler.”
U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.
The Venezuelan newspaper Tal Cual reported on Sunday that the United States received 12 shipments of crude oil and asphalt from Venezuela.
The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.
A group of Christian supporters of Israel has sued the Biden administration in federal court over sanctions on Israel that, it says, violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it targets protected speech and assembly.
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby responded to a question on why Iran is getting sanctions waivers from the Biden administration when it’s funding anti-Israel protests in the U.S. by stating that
Russia bragged that the worldwide tech outage did not affect its airlines and banks, thanks to its countermeasures against Western sanctions.
China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, announced that his regime will resume direct negotiations with the United States.
Spotify has deleted the pages of several Russian musicians who support Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, according to a report.
The European Union on Monday sanctioned Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe.
A bipartisan bloc in the House of Representatives spurned President Joe Biden Tuesday to sanction officials with the International Criminal Court after the body’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo stated that “we are concerned that Russia is getting access to key component parts, particularly from China and other countries” so they can build weapons, which shows that
The Biden administration lifted financial restrictions on Cuba on Tuesday, allowing “independent private sector entrepreneurs” in the communist-ruled nation access to the United States banking system to open U.S. bank accounts.
Russia is expanding a factory to produce at least 6,000 Iranian Shahed suicide drones per year, according to the Prana Network.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that Russia’s economy is “doing just fine” because China and India are buying their oil and while the delays in supplying Ukraine has hurt
On Tuesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Joe Biden’s denunciation of the ICC arrest warrant against him and the push to sanction the ICC over their “terrible singling out of Israel” that
Nicolás Maduro said that, following his regime’s July 28 sham presidential “election,” Venezuela may join BRICS and have sanctions lifted.
During an interview aired on Monday’s edition of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan reacted to threats from some Senate Republicans to end American support for the ICC, sanction the court’s employees and associates, and bar
The governments of India and Iran announced a decade-long agreement on Tuesday that would give India control and allow it to develop the port of Chabahar, a stop on the Gulf of Oman that offers India a favorable route to the Persian Gulf.
U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.
A report published on Monday by Bloomberg, citing the Russian Finance Ministry, found that Moscow generated over double the amount of revenue in April 2024 from oil sales and taxes compared to April 2023.
China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week broke the uneasy silence among China’s leadership and offered public comments on the upcoming American election, which stands a good chance of returning outspoken China critic Donald Trump to the White House.
LNG Energy Group, a Canada-based company owned by billionaire Texas businessman Rodney Lewis, brokered a deal with Venezuela’s PDVSA.
