TEHRAN: Iran’s defence minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami on Tuesday said foreign sanctions on Iran were blessing in disguise to help the country become self-sufficient and self-reliant. “Sanctions on Iran is not…
SEOUL: North Korea has warned it could revive a state policy aimed at strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country. The statement released…
MONZA: Sanctions against Russia are a “social, cultural and economic absurdity”, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Monday, speaking to representatives of the country’s manufacturing industry. Salvini — who is…
MOSCOW: The United States’ envoy for the conflict in eastern Ukraine says the West must remain firm with sanctions against Moscow because Russia is not withdrawing its forces from the separatist region.…
—Proposed deal from Russia could attract American sanctions, warns White House The United States (US) on Wednesday urged India to forgo its proposed deal to buy the S-400 missile defence system from Russia,…
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader says the Islamic Republic will “slap” the United States by defeating new American sanctions targeting the nation. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments Thursday in a speech in…
DUBAI: Pakistan’s Hasan Ali and Afghanistan’s Asghar Afghan and Rashid Khan have all been fined 15% of their match fees for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct in separate incidents during their Super Four clash in…
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court on Tuesday said its work would continue “undeterred” after Washington threatened to prosecute its officials if Americans are charged with war crimes committed in Afghanistan. “The…
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said it needed time to assess the impact of new US sanctions that come into effect on Monday before considering any possible response, but that President Vladimir Putin would…
WASHINGTON: Russia typically brushes off new US sanctions. Not this time. The Trump administration announcement of export restrictions in response to accusations Moscow used a nerve agent to poison a former Russian…
WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday it was imposing new sanctions on Russia over Moscow’s involvement in the use of a “lethal” nerve agent in the attempted killing of a former spy…
BEIRUT/LONDON: US President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that firms doing business with Tehran would be barred from the United States as new US sanctions against Iran took effect in spite of…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says the United States will impose sanctions on NATO ally Turkey over a detained American pastor held on terror and espionage charges. Shortly after the possibility of sanctions…
NEW DELHI: The United States has opened a path for India to avoid sanctions for buying arms from Russia, business leaders and experts said, almost a year after US President Donald Trump…
BRUSSELS: US President Donald Trump said Iran’s economic troubles were going to force it to seek a security deal with Washington following his withdrawal from a nuclear pact. In May the United…
BRUSSELS: The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine for another six months. The EU stressed in a statement Thursday that the 28 member states took the…
DUBAI: US economic pressure on Iran is intended to turn Iranians against their government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on Saturday by his website. The country’s rial currency…
