ANKARA (AA) – New Zealand has announced further sanctions on Russia and Iran over the Ukraine war. Announcing the news, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand’s latest sanctions target Russians involved in the country’s military-industrial complex as well as actors providing military assistance to Russia. “These new sanct...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State has imposed sanctions on a radical Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian aid to the civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The Department of State is today designating Tzav 9, a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanit...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced new sanctions against extremist illegal Israeli settlers following escalating attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. “Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers—a longstanding source of tension and conflict in the region—have escalated alarmingly in recent months. This has undermin...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the US sanctions imposed against commercial entities on allegations of links with Pakistan’s ballistic missile program. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said such listings of commercial entities have taken place in the past as well on allegations of links to Pakistan...
Washington, United States – AFP US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday of further sanctions targeting Iran following its unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend, saying she expects Washington will take added action “in the coming days.” “I fully expect that we will take additional sanctions action aga...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has announced sanctions against three businesses over “funding the military groups behind the conflict in Sudan.” The newly imposed measures include asset freezes on companies associated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), curtailing their financial capabi...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States sanctioned three Israeli settlers and two farming outposts Thursday, accusing them of undermining stability in the West Bank. The move marks the second time this year that Washington has sanctioned Israeli settlers, as it looks to respond to the rise in West Bank settler violence. “...
GENEVA (AA) – Spain on Monday announced that it has initiated a process of sanctioning 12 Israeli settlers in the West Bank. In his appearance before the Joint Commission for the country’s Congress of Deputies, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said: “The government of Spain has initiated the procedures to sanction a first...
ANKARA (AA) – New Zealand has joined the US and the UK in enforcing sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank amid escalating violence against Palestinians. In a statement, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced travel bans on a number of Israeli settlers who have committ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and the UK have imposed sanctions on four military officials from Yemen’s Houthi group for attacks on Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza. “The Houthis’ ‘terrorist’ attacks on merchant vessels and their civilian c...
