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By Daniel Schearf Beijing 31 January 2007 U.S. and North Korean finance officials have ended a second round of talks on U.S. financial sanctions against Pyongyang with no clear resolution to the dispute. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing that North
By Stephanie Ho Washington 24 December 2006 The president of Iran dismissed U.N. sanctions imposed against his country as, in his words, superficial and unimportant. He spoke in Tehran Sunday, one day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously appr
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 October 2006 U.N. Security Council The attempt by the United States and European powers to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran for its nuclear activities is running into obstacles. Even the strongest backers of a propos
By Paula Wolfson Washington 24 May 2007 President Bush says he will seek stronger sanctions on Iran, following a new U.N. report that accuses Tehran of accelerating its nuclear-enrichment program. VOA's Paula Wolfson has details from the White House.
By Noel King Khartoum 29 May 2007 Sudan says President Bush is unjustified in his decision to impose new sanctions on Khartoum because of the situation in Darfur. Before the sanctions were even announced at the White House on Monday, Sudanese officia
By Dan Robinson Washington 26 June 2007 In another step aimed at increasing the economic cost to Iran of its controversial nuclear enrichment program, a key congressional panel has approved legislation to impose sanctions on Iran's energy sector. VOA
By David Gollust New York 28 September 2007 Major world powers meeting Friday in New York agreed to delay a new UN sanctions resolution against Iran until November. The five permanent U.N. Security Council member countries and Germany said sanctions
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 February 2006 Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh Top Israeli officials have discussed sanctions against the Palestinians, as the Islamic militant group Hamas prepare
By Sean Maroney Washington 22 March 2007 watch Burns Iran Hearing The Senate committee that oversees U.S. banking heard testimony yesterday about the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions on Iran. The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on a new reso
The European Union Tuesday tightened sanctions against Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe. The EU foreign ministers added 37 more people to the EU list of individuals under a visa ban and asset freeze that already includes the president and members o
A U.S. federal appeals court has struck down the U.S. military's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. VOA's Michael Bowman reports, this is the first time the U.S. court system has overruled the Bush administration's
Experts: Tightening Iran Sanctions Hurts Ordinary Iranians Tehran's refusal to address international concerns about its atomic ambitions has forced the United States and the United Nations to tighten sanctions on Iran. U.S. authorities are investigat
Will Sanctions Against Russia Work? 对俄罗斯实施制裁措施有用吗? WASHINGTON Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a treaty making Crimea a part of Russia in the wake of a weekend referendum in which residents of the Ukrainian peni
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 11 April 2007 U.S. special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios says the United States has agreed to a request from U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon to delay imposing new sanctions against Sudan to give him more time to press
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Members of the Senate have found something to agree on. Nearly all voted in favor of strengthening sanctions against Russia. The Senate vote on the bill was 97 to 2. Russia already faces sanctions for its actions in Ukraine, whic
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 10 April 2006 Alexander Lukashenko takes presidential oath placing his hand on the Belarusian Constitution during inauguration ceremony at the Palace of the Republic in Minsk
By Scott Stearns Washington 17 April 2008 U.S. President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown say they are working to extend sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the two leaders met to
By Richard Green Washington 06 September 2006 The United States says it will take hard diplomatic work for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to suspend nuclear enrichment activities. ----- Back in July, the United
By Catherine Makino Tokyo, Japan 02 March 2007 John Negroponte, the deputy U.S. secretary of state, says North Korea will have to comply with its promise to shut down its nuclear reactor before the United States lifts financial sanctions it imposed.
By David Gollust State Department 04 October 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment and it is time for the U.N. Security Council to move on sanctions against Tehran. Rice is expected to