The Trump administration is forming an international coalition, the Maritime Freedom Construct (MFC), to restore freedom of navigation in t...

Hungary as a European Union member state has the power to block the loan even though it is not contributing to it. It will cover two thirds...

Russia and India are building a strategic alliance. Russian officials are calling for greater integration in capital markets and payment sy...

Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is considering easing political repression and granting pardons as a strategic move to improve relations wi...

Taiwan has raised its alert level since the Ukraine war began, wary of China making a similar move, though the government in Taipei has rep...

A judge and an investigator in Russia's prosecution of two outspoken critics of alleged corruption and rights abuses are also a focus of th...

The 27-nation bloc also gave the go-ahead to cut three Belarusian banks from the global SWIFT messaging system over Minsk's support for the...

The new sanctions, imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine which the EU says is backed by Minsk, include the exclusion from the SWIFT ban...

The draft sanctions were adopted by the EU executive on Tuesday morning and will be discussed by EU ambassadors at a meeting starting at 14...

India plans to buy 1 million tonnes of potash from Belarus in the first such bilateral deal between the two countries after sanctions cripp...

Washington increased pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, targeting the country's defense, security and potash sectors as...

Belarus was rocked by months of massive protests following the August 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko ...

Among those the Treasury Department cites in the new sanctions are Belaruskali OAO, which is one of Belarus's largest state-owned enterpris...

The bloc will ban exports to Belarus of any communications equipment that could be used for spying, and tighten an arms embargo to include ...

"It is clear that we will not be satisfied with small sanctions steps, but that we aim to target the economic structure and financial trans...

In his defiant remarks, his first in public since he ordered a warplane to intercept a Ryanair flight between EU members Greece and Lithuan...

The U.S. administration has suspended some economic sanctions against this former Soviet nation, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.