MOSCOW (AP) — The East-West faceoff over Ukraine escalated dramatically Tuesday, with Russian lawmakers authorizing President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside his country and U.S. President Joe Biden and European leaders responding by slapping sanctions on Russian oligarchs and banks.
Washington To Demand ‘Snapback’ Of Sanctions Against Iran
Without European assistance, it is unclear how the White House alone would implement U.N. sanctions to penalize Iran for breaking the 2015 nuclear deal that world powers are attempting to conserve. The Trump administration officially requires on Thursday that the United Nations penalize Iran with bruising sanctions for breaching an...