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A U.K. inquiry says Russian agents "carry out Putin's bidding," blaming him for a deadly 2018 attack in England using the ...

Britain, France, and Germany (E3) are considering triggering a UN mechanism to reimpose sanctions on Iran if nuclear talks with the United States show no progress by late August. The "snapback" ...

A raft of UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, lifted under a landmark 2015 deal, went back into force late Saturday. The sanctions were reimposed because the “E3” European group — Britain, ...

On paper, America’s sanctions are the most potent imposed on Russia since 2022. They threaten to cut off from American ...

The United Nations is set to reimpose wide-ranging sanctions on Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. The move comes a month after France, Germany, and Britain triggered a 30-day process to ...

Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are ...

On September 22, 2025, media outlets reported on the possibility of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the only permanent international court in existence, being sanctioned as an entity by the ...

After nine months of attempting to coax Russia into concessions using only incentives – whether by holding talks on repairing diplomatic relations or hosting a major bilateral summit on US soil – the ...

The Trump administration said it is seeing signs that its sanctions on major Russian oil producers are crimping the economic engine that has allowed Moscow to continue to fund its war in Ukraine.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ABC's "This Week" that the deadline for negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine is "as soon as possible" and imposing more sanctions on Russia would ...

Australia on Saturday imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four officials in Afghanistan's Taliban government over ...