The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil sector Monday, also making it more difficult for a subsequent administration to reverse the measures, the Times of Israel reports. Affecting the National Iranian Oil Company, Iran’s oil ministry, and the National Iranian Tanker Company, the new measures were taken under counterterrorism authority, such that a new administration would have to take legal action to change course.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has joined other populist leaders in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in endorsing the re-election of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
The Pentagon announced Monday that the US State Department has approved a further potential sale of 100 Boeing-made Harpoon Coastal Defense Systems to Taiwan in an arms deal which could be worth up to $2.37 billion, Reuters reports.
American airstrikes have killed a dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban members in Syria and Afghanistan since Thursday.
The United States is warning it will destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipments delivered to the Maduro regime in Venezuela, a senior administration official tells Fox News.
The Polish president is among European leaders infected with COVID-19 as the continent struggles to contain the coronavirus.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the latest ceasefire over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where a historic church is among the many damaged targets. The accusations came minutes after it came into effect on Monday with the support of the United States.
Hungary’s nationalist government backs the “fight for autonomy” for a region in Central Romania, a move that adds to tensions between the two neighbors.
The American software company Citrix Systems announced last month that 54% of employers believe people with “implanted chips” will have a “labor market advantage” by 2035, Zero Hedge reports.
The man believed to be al Qaeda’s second-in-command has been killed, Afghan security forces have said.
Ethiopia demanded Saturday that the US “clarify” remarks by President Donald Trump in which he said Egypt may try to “blow up” the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam currently under construction in the East African country.
Turkey’s president on Friday confirmed the country tested its Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, despite objections from the United States.
Despite the raging coronavirus pandemic, polls opened Sunday for elections that could impact government leaders’ future in the East European nations Lithuania and Ukraine.
Japan and Britain signed a bilateral free trade deal Friday in the the first such major post-Brexit deal, reducing tariffs on Yorkshire lamb sold in Japan, as well as auto parts for Japan’s Nissan plant.
European governments are battling to contain a massive wave of new coronavirus infections. In the most dramatic move so far this season, the French government is imposing a curfew on two-thirds of the country, after strict measures in other nations, including Eastern Europe.
Thousands of Hungarians, many of them students, marched through Budapest on Friday to demand freedom in universities and media.
In another move towards a new era, Israel and Sudan agreed Friday to normalize ties in a U.S.-brokered deal.
The United States and a coalition of 31 other countries have signed onto the Geneva Consensus Declaration that upholds the importance women’s health, and states that there is no global right to abortion.
The Goldman Sachs Group agreed to pay $2.9 billion (€2.4 billion) in penalties to settle criminal charges in Malaysia’s 1MDB bribery scandal, said the US Justice Department Thursday.
Poland’s top court has ruled that abortions in cases of fetal defects are unconstitutional.