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23 stories for“Sanctions”
An initiative to write "perpetual and armed" neutrality into the Swiss constitution and bar most sanctions was beaten on Sunday, a result that lets Bern keep mirroring European Union measures against Russia.
Sep 28, 2026
The currency hit a new low on Tuesday, just 27 days after the previous one, as a US naval blockade on Iranian oil and fresh sanctions compound the damage of seven months of war.
Sep 30, 2026
The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.
Aug 17, 2026
Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.
Sep 10, 2026
After a Camp David meeting, the Pentagon chief said Iran has 'literally gotten nothing through' the strait. Shipping data tell a messier story, and Tehran says talks should rest on lifting sanctions, not new pressure.
Oct 5, 2026
Iran's foreign minister offered to have the strait open within a week if Washington lifted its naval blockade, released frozen funds and ended oil sanctions, but Trump said the proposal mirrored a deal Tehran had already broken.
Sep 27, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
FIFA has opened formal cases over post-final clashes, alleged misconduct and a political banner, beginning a process rather than issuing verdicts.
Jul 30, 2026
Days after Trump rejected Iran's seven day plan as unacceptable, its foreign minister discussed fresh ideas with Qatari go-betweens due to be relayed to the US, while an American official said any deal still hinges on Iran's nuclear programme.
Sep 29, 2026
Abu Dhabi's energy week arrives on 2 November with hydrogen and carbon capture across the agenda and hydrocarbons across the balance sheets. Both things are true at once.
Aug 14, 2026
Safety divers, counterballast lines and strict medical protocol turned a high risk sport into one of the most closely supervised in the water.
Mar 11, 2025
Tokenized securities promise faster settlement and wider access, but custody, redemption, voting rights and bankruptcy treatment determine what an investor actually owns.
Aug 2, 2026
Attackers compromised a backend system and manipulated transaction data to trick Bitget's own approval process into moving funds out of its hot wallets, pushing North Korea's 2026 crypto haul past a billion dollars.
Sep 26, 2026
Stablecoins promise faster settlement and programmable money, but reserves, redemption, governance and operational resilience now matter more than hype.
Jul 28, 2026
Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.
Jul 25, 2026
About 450 were aimed at the capital, in what its mayor called an unprecedented attack. Two died and twenty were hurt in the Moscow region. Russia says it shot down 1,110. Near Kyiv, a mother and her three-year-old twins were killed the night before.
Sep 22, 2026
Germany has formally blamed Russia for an explosive drone found at Leipzig airport in August, and is closing the Russian consulate general in Bonn by 18 September. The target sat beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft.
Sep 5, 2026
Seven Republicans crossed, the most yet, for a resolution that binds nobody. The budget office says the war costs two to three billion a month and has used up to two thirds of the missile-defence interceptors. Vance says the first phase is done.
Sep 17, 2026
President Trump announced a joint venture holding 55 per cent of output across 17 fields, at no cost to American taxpayers. The reserves are real. Turning them into barrels is a decade of capital spending that nobody announced on Friday.
Aug 30, 2026
Tanks, troop carriers, anti-aircraft guns and a helicopter sit in ordered rows off Aqaba. It is the world's first underwater military museum, and the reasoning behind it is economic.
Aug 6, 2026
The current constant weight world records, the athletes behind them, and the federations, AIDA and CMAS, that ratify every metre added to the books.
Jan 15, 2026
At the Asian Freediving Cup in Panglao, the Hawaii-based American pulled herself to 106 metres and back on one breath, matching a mark Natalia Zharkova has held alone until now.
Aug 3, 2026
Budapest and Novi Sad staged world championships nine days apart under rival federations. Four AIDA world records fell, then CMAS records fell again, often to the same athletes.
Aug 4, 2026
