#sanctions

An Iranian businessman, who holds a Cyprus passport, was sanctioned by the United Kingdom on Tuesday for allegedly helping to finance Iran’s revolutionary guard (IRGC). Ali Ansari, who amassed ...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on two more judges from the International Criminal Court over their involvement in the court’s case against Israel, ratcheting up ...

President Donald Trump ordered a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro’s government, targeting its ...

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 ...

European Union governments want to agree on Friday to freeze Russian central bank assets immobilised in Europe for as long as necessary, replacing the need for a vote to renew ...

The US government on Monday removed five Cyprus-related individuals and three legal entities from its list of nationals designated as having engaged in “harmful foreign activities of the Russian Federation”. ...

The United Nations Security Council removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The U....

Russia’s second-largest oil producer, Lukoil LKOH.MM, said on Monday it would sell its international assets following sanctions over Ukraine announced last week by the United States. The planned ...

A senior lawmaker in German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition on Monday said Berlin should consider sanctions on Israel including a partial suspension of weapons exports or the suspension of ...

A Cyprus-based shipping company by the name of “GMCG Ltd” was designated as “blocked property” by the United States’ government as part of the country’s latest round of sanctions ...

The Kremlin on Tuesday reacted icily to Donald Trump’s warnings to President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, saying that recent decisions by the U.S. president and the NATO military ...

The government on Thursday got the green light from parliament to establish a national financial sanctions unit, part of the island’s commitments as an EU member-state. The relevant government ...

EU foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift economic sanctions on Syria, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. “We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a ...

The EU and Britain announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday without waiting for the United States to join them, a day after President Donald Trump’s phone call with ...

The Cyprus bar association said on Wednesday it was “surprised” that the Cyprus Public Audit Oversight Board could not back allegations it made in parliament on Monday that lawyers were ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union (EU) sanctions against Syria to not be renewed in June. Macron made the comments as he hosted Syrian President ...

The government is to create a national unit for the implementation of financial sanctions, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Wednesday. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he said ...

China imposed targeted tariffs on US imports on Tuesday and put several companies, including Google, on notice for possible sanctions, in a measured response to the sweeping duties on Chinese ...

Two companies based in Cyprus were included on the latest list of entities sanctioned by the United States for aiding Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The list was published ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former ...

Germany is leading efforts for the European Union to ease sanctions imposed on Syria during the rule of President Bashar al-Assad who was ousted last month, the Financial Times reported ...

The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran and Houthi-related entities, according to the Treasury Department website which listed a number of individuals, companies and vessels that had been ...

The UK will support Cyprus in establishing a new National Sanctions Implementation Unit to crack down on illicit Russian finance flowing through Europe, Keir Starmer’s office announced on Tuesday, ...

A small number of Cypriot passport holders were listed on Tuesday on the UK’s financial sanctions list, including one businessman allegedly linked to Roman Abramovich, former owner of Chelsea ...