Tag: sanctions
![Malaysia’s chip industry falls in the crosshairs of US sanctions on Russia](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2023-02-17T102113Z_787749004_RC2VCZ9TLQ33_RTRMADP_3_USA-CHINA-CHIPS-1-1717388568_3c7973-1717393677.jpg?resize=1200%2C630&quality=80)
Bangkok, Thailand – U.S. efforts to cripple Russia's war machine in Ukraine have trapped an…
![US sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24039616033541-1711095178.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Washington says Morales Urbina “used her office to facilitate a coordinated campaign to suppress dissent.”…
![Zimbabwe’s relations with US hit new low after fresh sanctions](https://african.business/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/000_34jf2jk-1024x683.jpg)
Zimbabwe’s relations with the United States have hit a new low after the Biden administration…
![US reimposes some sanctions after Venezuela bans presidential hopeful](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-29T173833Z_25860415_RC2SR5A4IN96_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-POLITICS-1706606031.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Venezuela’s Supreme Court upheld a 15-year ban on opposition leader Maria Corina Machado from holding…
![Three African Juntas Leave Regional Bloc, Accusing It of ‘Inhumane’ Sanctions](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/28/multimedia/28westafrica-bloc-ktfj/28westafrica-bloc-ktfj-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Soldiers who seized power in three West African countries announced Sunday they were pulling their…
![Russia accuses US of threatening global energy security](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-22T124353Z_982560614_RC2NJV9FK9VQ_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-NOVATEK-LNG-TANKERS-1703679217.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Russia has claimed that US sanctions against the Arctic LNG-2 project are undermining global energy…
![Sanctions threat looms over Bangladesh’s garment sector ahead of elections](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Activists-protesting-the-arrest-of-workers-in-recent-wage-hike-protest-copy-1703179928.jpg?resize=1920,1440)
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Weeks after turbulent protests over wage hikes and subsequent factory closures, Bangladesh’s…
![Roman Abramovich loses legal attempt to overturn EU sanctions](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/abram-1703087025.jpeg?resize=1920,1440)
The EU imposed sanctions on the oligarch in 2022 as part of measures against Russia…
![‘Boycott Israel’ breathes new life into 100-year-old Egyptian soda brand](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/image-1700387370.jpg?resize=1200,630)
Cairo, Egypt – Spiro Spathis, Egypt’s oldest carbonated beverage company, is making a sensational comeback….
![US Firm on Taliban Sanctions as Experts Call for Easing, Normalization](https://gdb.voanews.com/1ABEB59F-FD84-45E6-AC52-A6504ECE8445.jpg)
The U.S. State Department says it has no intention of easing sanctions or normalizing relations…