sanctions Media: US could cut Huawei off from US technology The Huawei logo at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin. photo © Fabian Sommer/dpa Huawei, once a Chinese rising star and serious rival to Samsung, has been suffering massively from US sanctions since 2019. Now Washington could cut further access to important technology. According to media reports, the US government is considering completely cutting off access to American technology for the Chinese Huawei group. A final decision has not yet...
fact finder As of: 01/30/2023 6:36 p.m Alina Lipp spreads Russian propaganda through her channels. However, the EU sanctions are making it more difficult for Putin supporters like her to get funding. However, questionable models make it possible to circumvent them. By Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow, editors ARD fact finder "My bank accounts in Germany were blocked, the amounts on them were withdrawn and the account was closed. Payments to my Russian bank account are being prevented by EU...
At a Meeting of EU justice ministers in Stockholm several representatives have spoken out in favor of an iinternational tribunal to create and the impeach Russian President Vladimir Putin. Foreign Minister Annalena baerbock had himself last on the other hand a suggestion for a different approach joined, while conceding that Putin could not initially be charged.The International Criminal Court in The Hague is not eligible to try the crime of aggression against Ukraine committed by the political and military leaders....
Status: 01/27/2023 03:36 am The US has expanded its sanctions against the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Various international affiliates related to the group are also affected. The US government has expanded its sanctions against the private Russian mercenary company Wagner Group and companies and individuals associated with it. This was announced by the finance and foreign ministries. The background is the role of the troops in the war in Ukraine and their activities in Africa, including human rights violations. At...
Iran announced, on Wednesday, new sanctions against 25 individuals and entities from the European Union and nine from the United Kingdom in response to the sanctions imposed on recent Mondays. Tehran accuses these people and entities of "supporting terrorism and terrorist groups (...), encouraging violence against the Iranian people" or "disseminating false information about Iran", explained the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. foreign.Iran had warned on Tuesday that it would take reciprocal measures in response to new sanctions decided the...
First player qualified this Tuesday for the last four of the Australian Open, Karen Khachanov does not have many supporters in Azerbaijan. Because the scorer of Sebastian Korda (forced to forfeit during the third set), who plays without a Russian flag next to his name and who refuses to mention the sanctions which hit him as a Russian on the circuit, shows his support for the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. And this as long as it is not forbidden. "Keep believing...
The FBI has arrested the former head of its New York counterintelligence agency. He is accused of working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. source site
This time, the FBI's New York counterintelligence agents went after a suspect they knew very well. Her commitment was to her former boss, Charles McGonigal, who headed the New York branch of the anti-espionage department for 22 years until he left the service in 2018. McGonigal is well known in security circles; among other things, he had led the FBI's investigation into Wikileaks.The unusual operation took place on Saturday, and the federal police informed the public about it on Monday....
The European Union is punishing other people and organizations in Iran for the brutal treatment of opposition demonstrators. However, the Union currently sees no possibility of putting the Revolutionary Guards on the EU terror list.At a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the foreign ministers of the 27 EU countries approved a fourth package of sanctions against Iran because of ongoing human rights violations. As a result, any assets of a good three dozen other individuals and organizations in the EU...
human rights EU countries impose new sanctions on Iran A woman is demonstrating in Berlin out of solidarity with the protesters in Iran (symbol image). photo © Joerg Carstensen/dpa The EU is tightening its sanctions against Iran - without classifying the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. Did the warnings from Tehran work? The German foreign minister denies that. Because of the ongoing serious human rights violations in Iran, the EU states have imposed further sanctions. The punitive measures decided...
