Tag: U.S. Economic Sanctions

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Iran nuclear talks in Beijing, Canada’s new prime minister being sworn in, and former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appearing before the ...

The diplomatic relationship between the United States and South Africa has reached its lowest point since the transition to democracy in 1994. On Feb. 7, U.S. President Donald Trump signed ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. sanction threats against Russia, possible White House nuclear talks with Iran, and deadly clashes in Syria. Russia ‘Pounding’ Ukraine U.S. ...

The Trump administration’s hopes for a grand economic rapprochement with Russia are either an inducement to Moscow in the ongoing peace talks over its three-year war in Ukraine, or a ...

Around $5.4 trillion of payments are made every year through the U.S. government’s secure payment system, which is run by the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. It’s normally ...

Economic sanctions may take a backseat to tariffs in President Donald Trump’s vision for the United States, but they are and will remain a tried-and-true javelin in Washington’s geopolitical arsenal. ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 4  a return to the maximum pressure campaign on Iran, which is meant to starve the regime of cash as a way to ...

Colombia and the United States nearly went to war last weekend, but if you blinked, you might have missed it. Piqued by Colombia’s refusal to accept U.S. military flights bearing ...

Despite widespread concern in Ukraine, Europe, and part of Washington that U.S. President Donald Trump would take a conciliatory approach to Russia over its war in Ukraine, Trump and many ...

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek shocked the world on Jan. 20 with the release of its product “R1,” an AI model on par with global leaders in performance but trained ...