Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2021. Mikhail Voskresensky | Kremlin Sputnik | via Reuters Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figureRead More →
NewsFeed At the Doha Forum, UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese outlined how US sanctions imposed over her Gaza reports have effectively removed her from the global financial system. She said the measures, which she calls unlawful, have had a major impact on her everyday life. Published On 6 Dec 20256Read More →
Three and a half years of war against Ukraine have weakened Russia’s cash reserves, indicators show, possibly signalling that its economic resilience is beginning to fray. Russia experts have told Al Jazeera that the country of 143 million people is now almost wholly dependent on export revenue from oil andRead More →
Tehran, Iran – After about a decade, Iran is once more subject to United Nations sanctions as the West piles pressure on Tehran, despite opposition from Russia and China. The sanctions were automatically reinstated at midnight GMT on Sunday after the European signatories of Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal invoked theRead More →
Tehran says it has offered fair proposals and accuses the E3 of ‘political bias’ in seeking to revive sanctions. Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Iran has hit out at European states that have threatened to revive international sanctions overRead More →
Russia said it ‘strongly condemns’ actions of Germany, France and UK as China says sanctions move ‘counterproductive’. Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025 Russia and China have condemned a decision by Britain, Germany and France to launch a process that could reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran over itsRead More →
Washington, DC – The decision by European countries to impose “snapback” sanctions against Iran may further exacerbate international tensions, experts say, as fears of a regional war loom over the Middle East. On Thursday, Germany, France and the United Kingdom – Europe’s largest economies – triggered a 30-day process toRead More →
France, Germany and the United Kingdom have triggered a mechanism to reimpose sanctions on Iran after a series of meetings failed to reach an agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme. The three European countries, known as the E3, have been warning Tehran for weeks that United Nations sanctions could beRead More →
Caspar Veldkamp and other ministers step down after cabinet rejects sanctions against Israel, prompting broader political upheaval. Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has resigned after failing to secure cabinet support for additional sanctions against Israel over its military onslaught in Gaza. Veldkamp, a member of the centre-right New Social ContractRead More →
The US is sanctioning the Pareco-FF armed group, as well as the Congolese mining company CDMC. The United States has sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as both the army and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group traded accusations of violatingRead More →
