"Sanctions"

The mysterious hole measuring 36.5 meters (119.7 feet) in diameter that emerged in late July has provoked the mobilization of local authorities and led the mining regulator Sernageomin to suspend operations of a nearby mine owned by Canada's Lundin LUN.TO in the northern district of Candelaria.

Iran said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on 61 more Americans, including former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, for backing an Iranian dissident group, as months of talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal are at an impasse.

Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran on Saturday as the two countries, among the world's top oil producers, grapple with U.S. sanctions that are crippling their exports.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that no Iron Curtain would fall over the Russian economy, despite the sanctions imposed by the West, because Moscow would not close itself off from the world as the Soviet Union did.

Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Tuesday said Pakistan would be open to buying Russian oil at cheaper rates if it was offered and if no sanctions were to be levied over such a deal.

Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday his country was upset to see the European Union's sanctions against Russia 'hanging in the air'.

Prime Minister Hun Sen said sanctions against Russia as a result of its military offensive in Ukraine should be stopped as they have produced no tangible results and predicted that a global food crisis would ensue in 2023 as a consequence.

On April 26, at the Huawei Global Analyst Conference, Huawei rotating chairman Ken Hu responded to Huawei's R&D, chips, devices, and other external concerns. The analyst summit focused on topics such as “future exploration, industrial innovation, digitalization and decarbonization", and discussed future trends of the industry.

Countries should not impose indiscriminate sanctions on Russia, the investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Dmitry Muratov said on Tuesday (May 3).

Using Moscow's proposed scheme for foreign companies to pay for gas by enabling Russia to convert their payments into rubles would breach European Union sanctions, the bloc's energy policy chief said on Monday (May 2).

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday (April 9) in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, "in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people," a Downing Street spokesperson said.

U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order banning new investment in Russia by Americans no matter where they live, a factsheet from the White House said, adding the executive order aims to "ensure the enduring weakening of the Russian Federation's global competitiveness."