(VOVWORLD) - The Russian ambassador to the US said Wednesday that the US sanctions against Sberbank and Alfabank, two of Russia’s largest banks, are “a direct blow to the Russian...
(VOVWORLD) - The Biden administration announced new sanctions on Russia on Tuesday in response to the poisoning and jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The US has asked Russia to...
(VOVWORLD) - China on Tuesday firmly opposed the US Department of Commerce’s Monday announcement to add 58 Chinese companies to a "military end user" list, restricting them from buying a...
(VOVWORLD) - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang on Tuesday summoned Robert Forden, Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in China, to lodge a formal protest and strong condemnation of US...
(VOVWORLD) - A Chinese official on Wednesday called some countries’ threat to impose sanctions for a new national security law for Hong Kong “the logic of bandits” Zhang Xiaoming, Deputy Chief...
(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council on Monday called for a dialogue between Iran and the US to end tensions in the Gulf region
(VOVWORLD) - The European Union is trying to get the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) back on track, despite Tehran’s desire to retaliate against US sanctions
(VOVWORLD) - 6 months after re-imposing sanctions on Iran’s crude oil, US President Donald Trump on Monday took a stronger step by ending exemptions from sanctions for 8 countries still buying oil from Iran,...
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi is in Iran for his first official visit since he took office
(VOVWORLD) - US National Security Adviser John Bolton has said that the US administration is looking to ratchet up pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program, going beyond previous international...
(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has cancelled his visit to Iran, citing US sanctions against Tehran as a reason
(VOVWORLD) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Russia is planning retaliatory measures, one day after the US announced a new round of sanctions against Moscow for poisoning a former...
(VOVWORLD) -Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday, he discussed energy and US sanctions on Russia in talks with US Treasury and Energy Secretaries
(VOVWORLD) -North Korea accused the Donald Trump administration Sunday of elevating a war crisis on the Korean peninsula through tougher sanctions on Pyongyang despite friendly inter-Korean exchanges at the...
(VOVWORLD) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Japanese counterpart Taro Kono have held a telephone conversation on Friday, discussing the situation on the Korean Peninsula
(VOVWORLD) - Unilateral US sanctions against Iran are “illegitimate in principle”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a joint press conference with Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Mamami Uanakuni on Wednesday
(VOVWORLD) - North Korea has condemned new sanctions by the United Nations Security Council and threatened retaliation
(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council has expanded targeted sanctions against North Korea in response to a series of missile tests conducted by Pyongyang this year
(VOVworld) – Iran has slammed as illegal the recent US sanctions over Tehran’s defensive missile program, saying that it will deliver a "proportionate and reciprocal" response to the move
(VOVworld) – On Thursday, the US and China issued a joint statement on nuclear security cooperation on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington