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The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen on Tuesday threatened to impose “sanctions” against 13 American oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Marathon Petroleum.

Iranian state media on Friday announced the regime in Tehran has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, to build four nuclear power plants in Iran. The deal is valued at roughly $25 billion.

Reuters reported on Thursday that Chinese drone experts have visited Russia to work on military drones for IEMZ Kupol, a weapons manufacturer owned by the Russian government that was placed under sanctions by the U.S. government in 2023.

Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa gave one of the shortest addresses to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

Radical socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil opened the U.N. General Assembly by bashing Trump without naming him.

Ukraine will reportedly begin curbing its imports of diesel fuel from India beginning next month, due to India’s insistence on buying huge amounts of discounted Russian crude oil.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for invoking the “snapback” provision of the Iran nuclear deal, beginning a 30-day countdown for United Nations sanctions to resume against Iran.

Russia is reportedly prepared to use its position as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) to protect Iran from “snapback” sanctions, which European leaders are threatening to invoke because Iran has failed to comply with its obligations under former president Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal.

The tariff rate on India doubled overnight in a bid to discourage the country from continuing to buy cheap Russian oil.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry scolded the government of President Donald Trump on Thursday for approving military deployments to the Caribbean Sea to combat large-scale drug trafficking in the region, calling it an abusive “threat of force” against its ally, socialist Venezuela.

The Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday published a report co-authored with a research group called C4ADS about a complex global network that is moving huge amounts of oil from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela to China in defiance of sanctions.

The State Department announced a new round of sanctions against employees of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday in response to that institution’s accusations of human rights abuses and international crime against Israel and the United States.

The Trump administration imposed additional sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for attempting to prosecute American officials, as well as those of allied countries, especially Israel.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Flávio Dino ruled on Monday that all judicial and executive orders issued by foreign governments have no effect in Brazil unless they are ratified by the top court.

Speaking at the SPROUTS business forum in Kazan, Russia on Monday, analyst Natalia Khobrakova of the B1 consulting firm said that China has become the top investor in the Far East, with over 90% of foreign investment in the region coming from Chinese sources. That includes Russia’s Tatarstan region, where the forum was held.

India has reportedly shipped its first cargo of diesel fuel to China since 2021, with about 496,000 barrels of ultra-low sulfur product setting sail from the port city of Vadinar on July 18 — only a few hours before the European Union announced new restrictions on the Russia-linked company handling the shipment.

China imposed sanctions in what it said was retaliation for the EU two Chinese institutions in its latest round of Russia sanctions.

India’s Asian News International (ANI) on Sunday quoted sources in New Delhi who said India has “dramatically increased its crude oil imports from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term.”

India’s state-owned oil refineries stopped buying Russian oil last week, after President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Moscow’s oil customers they could face crushing secondary sanctions for financing the war in Ukraine.

A report claimed that U.S. sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes have caused a visible rift at Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF).

The administration of President Donald Trump identified Brazil as a national security threat on Wednesday and imposed human rights sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

President Donald Trump’s administration slapped sanctions on the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for seeking statehood outside of a formal agreement with Israel, per U.S. law.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Special Presidential Envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that the United States has not really gone after Russia’s money flows from oil that hard and that the level of sanctions

The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted with vitriol on Monday to a new round of sanctions by Ukraine on individuals and businesses.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that putting sanctions on Russian oil is “the biggest pressure you can put on them.” And putting these sanctions in place is “a very real

Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday that India will be able to get the oil it needs, even if President Donald Trump imposes steep secondary tariffs on countries that do business with Russia.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned Brazil, China, India, and other heavy buyers of Russian oil they could face stiff secondary sanctions if they keep doing business with Moscow.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, and dictator Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing.

On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that she isn’t worried about the possible economic impacts of secondary sanctions or tariffs on China to prevent them from supporting Russia. Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Well,

China’s customs agency on Monday released data that showed trade between China and Russia slipped by 9.1 percent to $106.48 billion in the first half of 2025.

Cubans around the world marked the fourth anniversary on Friday of the nationwide protests on the island in 2021 in which thousands of people flooded the streets of nearly every major city to demand an end to communism.

Iran’s state-run PressTV on Wednesday heaped praise on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians. Albanese was hit with sanctions by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday for engaging in lawfare against Israel and the United States.

The Trump administration on Tuesday officially revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian rebel group and former al-Qaeda faction that toppled dictator Bashar Assad in December and took control of Damascus.

Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday delivered an impassioned screed against America President Donald Trump’s recent measures against the communist regime during the annual summit of the anti-U.S. BRICS coalition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ukrainian forensics expert Oleksandr Vysikan said on Thursday that Russia is upgrading Iranian suicide drones with more advanced technology to slip them past Ukrainian air defenses and deliver more powerful explosives.