United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese Francesca Albanese, the UN`s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, says Georgetown University`s move to end her 10-year affiliation is a fallout from US sanctions imposed for her work exposing Israel`s genocide in Gaza and US business complicity...

In this file photo, taken on January 20, 2021, outgoing US President Donald Trump addresses guests at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland...

(File photo by Reuters) The Biden administration has approved $200 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, a senior US State Department official has declared, amid heightening tensions with Russia over the issue...

This picture, taken on December 30, 2010, shows logs of teak wood being gathered near Thazi in central Myanmar...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (second from right) Daniel Ortega has been sworn in as the Nicaraguan President for a fourth consecutive term, only hours after the US and European Union imposed fresh sanctions on several figures in his government...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg has ruled that EU companies can end contracts with Iranian firms if they face disproportionate economic loss as a result of US sanctions...

File photo of Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Photo by TASS) Moscow has barred entry into Russia of seven British citizens involved in anti-Russian activities in retaliation for a similar move by London against the same number of Russians back in August...

People wearing face masks walk on a bridge in the Zaryadye park with a Kremlin’s tower and Russian Foreign Ministry building in the background in central Moscow on October 25, 2021...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh The Foreign Ministry spokesman calls the new US sanctions against Iran the continuation of Washington’s abortive policies concerning the Islamic Republic...

File photo of Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (By AFP) Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has thrown her weight behind the adoption of a law introduced by Beijing to uphold the territory’s sovereignty in the face of foreign interference and sanctions...

A nurse wearing a protective suit and mask tends to a baby who is affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Hazrate Ali Asghar Hospital, in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2020...

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah The Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has censured US sanctions against Syria, saying the restrictive measures are the last American weapon to pressure the government in Damascus and that Syria’s allies would not leave the Arab country alone in the face of the economic war...

According to Iran’s Foreign Ministry, South Korea is about $7 billion in arrears for oil exported from the Islamic Republic...

A file photo of the interior of the United Nations Security Council at its headquarters in New York, US Veto powers China and Russia have written to the United Nations, arguing strongly against a US threat that it will try and bring about a return of all sanctions against Iran if the world body fails to extend an arms embargo against Tehran...

US Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, speaks during a briefing at the US Department of State January 17, 2020, in Washington, DC...

China says a recent decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to strip Hong Kong of its special trading status violates rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

File photo shows US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US special representative on Iran Brian Hook (background) arrive to al-Bateen Air Base in Abu Dhabi, on September 19, 2019...

Pope Francis gathers his thoughts during Easter Sunday Mass on April 12, 2020 behind closed doors at St...

The White House. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Group of 77 (G-77) and China have called for an end to unilateral coercive economic measures against developing countries amid global efforts to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 28, 2020...

An AFP file photo of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his fellow Republican neocons are bloodthirsty people that view sanctions as a wonderful opportunity to create suffering for Iran and various countries, says an American political commentator...

Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei dismissed on Monday talks with the US after President Trump called for direct negotiations with Tehran, saying Washington is only after concessions...

 Russia plans to increase efforts to cut the country's dependence on US payment systems and the dollar following recent sanctions imposed by Washington...

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister says new US sanctions against Iran violated a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers, US included...

 Russia-US ties hit a new low after Moscow has told Washington to cut the number of its diplomats in response to the approval by the US Congress of new sanctions against the European country...

Iran has announced retaliatory sanctions on 15 American companies over their support for Israeli crimes and terrorism two days after Washington imposed bans on nearly a dozen foreign companies or individuals for aiding the Islamic Republic...