The United States government has authorized the first-ever transfer of funds expropriated from a Russian citizen to the Ukrainian government. In a statement Wednesday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced…

Deceased sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein’s two Caribbean islands have been purchased by a private equity billionaire, who plans to create a five star luxury resort on the site. On its website…

Photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin courtesy of www.kremlin.ru   In an announcement, the Kremlin press service said that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Saudi Crown…

On Thursday the Financial Times reported that EU officials have told it that the bloc has exhausted all of its options for imposing economic restrictions on Russia. For that reason,…

On Saturday, China launched a protest of a new round of sanctions levied by Washington against a new group of Chinese businesses for allegedly trying to evade a series of…

UN Spokesman Stephane Dujjaric said in a briefing Wednesday that the UN was discussing allowing some Russian banks to re-enter the SWIFT payment system, as a means of helping to…

On Wednesday, TASS news agency reported that this past January, US software and network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems destroyed more than $20 million worth of its inventory in Russia. The…

Indonesian President Joko Widodo says his nation must work to reduce its dependency on Western payment systems, to avoid being at risk of disastrous economic consequences, should his nation ever…

In a statement Friday, China’s Finance Ministry announced it imposed an unprecedented fine of 212 million yuan ($30.8 million) on accounting firm Deloitte, for performing its audit of bad-debt manager…

On Thursday, Reuters reported that the Netherlands will restrict semiconductor exports to China, after being pressured by the United States government to join it in seeking to limit Beijing’s access…