Recently hacked Iranian files obtained by an Iranian opposition group highlight the Iranian Ministry of Defense’s “covert and complex methods” employed by Tehran to circumvent international sanctions and finance its military operations.
Data from two top ship tracking firms revealed that shipments of Russian crude oil to China and India, Russia’s top two buyers, rose by ten percent in May to hit record levels despite the Biden administration’s pleas to cut down on Moscow’s prodigious income stream by respecting sanctions and price caps.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that he would like to join BRICS, the economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that will hold its next summit in Johannesburg, South Africa in August.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Washington on Thursday for “candid and substantive discussions on issues relating to the U.S.-China commercial relationship, including the overall environment in both countries for trade and investment and areas for potential cooperation.”
House China Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) said a recent report that the Biden administration held back on sanctions against China after the spy balloon incident was “troubling” and “scandalous.”
The EU is preparing new sanctions against Russia, which will reportedly include firms from China accused of assisting Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti claimed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration is evaluating lifting American sanctions on the Venezuelan socialist regime.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived here on Tuesday to meet with dictator Nicolás Maduro and other members of the Venezuelan socialist regime.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened to abandon a landmark grain deal with Ukraine if obstacles to Moscow’s exports remained.
The Russian oil corporation Rosneft announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement with the government-owned Indian Oil Corporation to “substantially increase oil supplies as well as diversify the grades to India.”
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) called for the Biden administration to be more forceful against Iran and its proxy groups in the wake of an attack by Iranian proxies that killed
The government of Saudi Arabia dramatically increased purchases of Russian diesel fuel this month, apparently for use at home while selling more expensive Saudi oil abroad, reports indicated this week.
U.S. sanctions applied by the Biden administration on numerous Russian oligarchs do not apply to two Russian oligarchs who paid the Biden family business, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said Thursday.
Former action movie star Steven Seagal, an ardent supporter of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine, on Tuesday launched an “international movement of Russophiles” with support from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) stated that President Joe Biden responded to Russia purposefully attacking a U.S. drone by telling them “to get sensitivity training.” And that the correct response is
PRAGUE (AP) – Thousands of people in the Czech Republic rallied against the government Saturday, protesting high inflation and demanding an end to the country’s military support for Ukraine. A new political group, PRO, organized the rally at Prague’s Wenceslas
CARACAS, Venezuela – Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent his top foreign policy adviser Celso Amorim to Caracas this week to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the establishment “opposition” in Venezuela.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party on Monday downplayed $826,000 in donations from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a mining company partly owned by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called for President Joe Biden to threaten China with sanctions unless they are transparent about the origins of the coronavirus and stop fentanyl precursors from being
The largest producer of whiskey in India, Allied Blenders and Distillers (ABD), began unprecedented liquor exports to Russia last month and is preparing a formal debut in that nation’s spirits market, multiple reports on Wednesday revealed.
Russia held its position as the largest coal supplier to Germany last year, despite Berlin being on the opposite side of the war in Ukraine.
BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine targeting more officials and organizations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones, as well as restricting trade on products that could be used by the armed forces.
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Quest Means Business,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo responded to a question on whether U.S. sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would involve sanctions on third parties and countries to
The conflict has inflicted horrendous destruction and loss of life, and staggering amounts of money have been poured into Ukraine’s defense by the Western world, but neither side is making much progress toward victory or a negotiated peace settlement.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday warned of “serious consequences” if Russia works with China to avoid U.S. sanctions, measures taken that have further driven Russia towards an alliance with China.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, just 8.5 per cent of Western businesses operating in Russia have actually left, despite many announcing their departure from the country.
LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country – defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday threatened to impose “countermeasures” against the United States for shooting down the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the continental U.S. in early February.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday announced sanctions against six Chinese aerospace companies in connection with the Chinese spy balloon that U.S. military officials shot down last weekend after it traversed U.S. airspace.
Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday sought to portray the United States as “cold-hearted” and cheap because it has not lifted sanctions against the homicidal Syrian dictatorship supported by Beijing in the wake of Monday’s devastating earthquakes.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued his swing through Africa on Thursday by meeting with the ruling junta in Sudan immediately after pledging Russia’s support to the military coup that rules Mali.
Over four in ten Germans believe the sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine have done more harm to their country than Russia.
India’s power ministry is projecting an eight-percent surge in coal demand during the next fiscal year after renewables underperformed by nearly 30 percent in 2022, while India’s imports of discounted Russian oil surged by an amazing 33 times year-on-year in December.
Britain is increasing purchases of Indian oil amid the Western sanctions war with Russia – but much of it is likely refined from Russian product sold to India at a discount.
CARACAS — Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro said on Sunday that he is ready to normalize diplomatic relations between his country and the United States after breaking all ties with America in 2019.
CARACAS — Three of the major Venezuelan “opposition” political parties belonging to the Unitary Platform alliance allegedly formed against the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro have begun talks to put an end to the nation’s legitimate interim government led by Juan Guaidó, Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported on Monday.
The UK announced new sanctions against Russian military commanders, as well as Iranians involved in producing and supplying drones.
Around 700,000 households in Ireland are now in energy poverty as a result of the ongoing European Union gas crisis, MPs have claimed.
A court run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday imposed the first death sentence against a member of the nationwide protest movement that took to the streets after the thuggish “morality police” killed a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab improperly.
