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The United States issued a 30-day licence for countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products currently stranded at sea in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was a step to stabilize global energy markets roiled by the Iran war. CBC | World News
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Iran war LIVE: Trump lifts sanctions on Putin’s oil in major blow to NATO
The US has temporarily eased sanctions on Russian oil in transit, risking the ire of Nato allies, in a bid to cool surging crude prices amid the Iran war. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Hungary threatens veto on EU’s 20th Russia sanctions package over halted oil shipments
Budapest has threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and to stall efforts to help Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries to Hungary resume. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. imposes sanctions on family and associates of Venezuela’s Maduro and his wife
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on family members and associates of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as Washington ratchets up pressure on the Venezuelan president. CBC | World News
Read More »Belarus frees Nobel winner, top opposition figures as U.S. lifts more sanctions
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after two days of talks with an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump, an American statement said. CBC | World News
Read More »Sanctions haven’t sidelined Russia’s shadow fleet. So Ukraine has turned to drones
Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey. CBC | World News
Read More »Putin puppet makes chilling ‘nuclear weapons’ suggestion in rage over Trump sanctions
Kremlin should move on “from planned exercises” to the “unannounced use of tactical nuclear weapons”, according to the Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »So just how significant are the sanctions the U.S. slapped on Russia’s oil giants?
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Read More »EU joins U.S. in heaping more sanctions on Russia to push Putin into Ukraine peace talks
The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump slaps Russia with ‘tremendous’ sanctions to shut down Putin’s war machine
In a dramatic turn of events, President Trump has unleashed a wave of sanctions on Russia, targeting its oil giants. Daily Express :: News Feed
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