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WASHINGTON–The United States imposed new sanctions on six Venezuelan security officials and revoked the visas of dozens of associates and their families with ties to illegitimate socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, ...

The United States on March 1 imposed new visa restrictions on individual officials and their families who are ...

Commentary When President Donald Trump announced his administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the reimposition ...

WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Feb. 5 that would reimpose sanctions on ZTE Corp ...

The European Union has sanctioned the heads of Russia’s military intelligence and two of its alleged agents in ...

BERLIN–The United States has warned German companies involved in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they ...

The ruler of Iran's Islamic regime admitted in a speech on Jan. 9 that sanctions reimposed by the ...

COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM—The European Union has frozen the assets of an Iranian intelligence unit and two of its staff, as ...

Amid news of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's arrest in Canada at Washington’s request, U.S. companies and the Trump administration ...

The United States on Dec. 10 placed sanctions on three senior officials of North Korea's communist regime for ...

Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush played a role in supporting the Chinese Communist regime after the ...

WASHINGTON—Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uyghurs, hundreds of scholars said on ...

WASHINGTON—Days after Turkey released a recording of the killing of U.S. resident and dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ...

The United States sanctioned on Nov. 20 an illicit network that used a Russian shipping company to deliver ...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING—U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Nov. 14 urging a stronger response by the Trump administration to China's crackdown ...

WASHINGTON–The top U.S. diplomat has granted an exception to certain U.S. sanctions that will allow the India-led development ...

The United States on Nov. 5 will reimpose tough sanctions on the Iranian regime that were lifted as ...

BEIJING—Bank of Kunlun Co, the key Chinese conduit for transactions with Iran, is set to halt handling payments ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has vowed to further intensify the Trump administration's tough approach to China, ...

BEIJING/SINGAPORE—China's Sinopec Corp is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month, as the state refiner comes ...

The United States issued a new round of sanctions against Venezuela on Sept. 25, hours before President Donald ...

HONG KONG/BEIJING—China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, the U.S. consulate in ...

WASHINGTON–The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Sept. 20 for buying fighter jets and missile ...

WASHINGTON–Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill on Sept. 18 that would reimpose sanctions on China's ZTE ...

UNITED NATIONS–U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Russia on Sept. 17 of "cheating" on U.N. ...

WASHINGTON–Republican U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation on Sept. 12  seeking to counteract what they see as Iran's ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 12 directing the government to impose automatic sanctions on ...