Sentences with phrase «from international sanctions»

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Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

Although sanctions on Iran are not as heavy as they used to be before the 2015 nuclear deal with the West, Iran is still mostly cut off from major international payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard, and services such as PayPal.

The Russian economy has been hit by low oil prices and western sanctions and is set to contract 0.6 percent this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.

North Korea is drenched in chronic economic problems, due to a one - sided focus on military spending and decades of economic sanctions from the international community.

Pomerantz leads a class action against Deutsche Bank AG, arising from its lack of controls against financing terrorism, money laundering, aiding against international sanctions, and committing financial crimes.

Amid economic sanctions and a volatile ruble, Russian international property investors are switching from residential to commercial sectors, with Spain a top target, says a new report.

And with international sanctions against Iran about to be lifted — in exchange for an agreement to halt its nuclear program — the country has promised to increase its own production from 3.3 million barrels a day to as many as 4 million barrels a day by the end of 2016.

Providing much needed insight on Russia's global trading market and developments surrounding international sanctions, the conference will include contributions from Russia's leading corporates, financiers, insurers, public bodies and all supporting sectors involved in international trade finance.

Putin's actions, in open breach of international law and UN treaties, led to a protracted conflict in Ukraine, the imposition of western sanctions against Russia, and Russia's expulsion from the G8 group of countries.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Mexico star Rafa Marquez's international future and a fifth World Cup are still far from certain after the U.S. treasury sanctions imposed on Aug. 9.

The Costa Rica international made his first senior Arsenal appearance in August but is yet to start a Premier League game, and with Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil back from injury Arsene Wenger has sanctioned his departure.

This priority is more important when the country is increasingly put under international sanctions and isolated from regional and international counterparts.

Burma survives international condemnation on the back of its friendship with China, which protects the military junta from any effective sanction from the international community, for instance by vetoing measures in the UN security council.

Trump is expected to agree this week to continue granting Iran a reprieve from sanctions over its nuclear program, while again signaling his displeasure with the international nuclear deal that lifted the penalties, U.S. and European officials, congressional aides and others said.

Successive waves of migrants have reached Europe's shores; terrorist groups are rampant in the Middle East, menacing personal safety and regional stability; North Korea, despite warnings and sanctions from the international community, obstinately continues to develop its nuclear programme; and climate change also warrants international collective action.

These sanctions, pressure from the UK and the international community, and a campaign of guerrilla warfare, finally led to a constitutional conference and free elections in 1979.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently «seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to bring Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke before the court on allegations of corruption against her, which the government should consider as crimes against humanity and serious enough for it to sanction her prosecution before the court.»

The mayor has often weighed in on world issues happening much further from New York City than Albany — including weighing on international sanctions against Russia at the same press conference where he ducked Moreland questions.

On Wednesday, the government's nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France — India's first major nuclear purchase from the West since it exploded an atom bomb in 1974 and came under international sanctions.

From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Once international sanctions are lifted, $ 100 billion from Iranian oil sales will be released from escrow accounts.

Embellishing high - line vehicles from General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Lexus, and Toyota, as well as building custom creations like the World record holding Venom GT, HPE has evolved into a state - of - the - art facility that includes the world's first state accredited Tuner school, a 40,000 - square foot workshop and showroom, and the Lonestar Motorsports Park with an International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) sanctioned quarter - mile dragstrip on 143 - acres near Houston, Texas.

But the conclusion of an international agreement to limit Iran's nuclear arms capacity, which would lift the international sanctions that have restricted Iranian energy exports, would give new momentum to the planned construction of an ultra-deepwater natural - gas pipeline across the Arabian Sea, from Iran to India's west coast.

Further, because REDD is not yet sanctioned under an international framework on climate, credits from avoided deforestation are limited to voluntary markets where they are worth substantially less than carbon credits in compliance markets.

The announcement came nearly one week after US President Donald Trump refused to re-certify the global nuclear deal that Germany, France, US, UK, China, and Russia had signed with Iran after years of negotiations in 2015, lifting long - standing UN-imposed sanctions that had isolated Iran from the international community for years.

The standard way to employ sanctions under current international law is to put tariffs on the imports from countries that are not complying with a treaty's provisions.

In analyzing the impact of the border tax adjustment enforcement mechanism, we need to consider that trade sanctions affect only goods in international trade, while much of a country's CO2 emissions come only from domestic production.

Other matters which often include an extradition elements are MLAs from foreign countries, alleged sanctions breaches and international war crimes.

Occidental argued that it had not violated any such domestic law consent requirement but that in any event international law proscribed the radical sanction of contract termination as disproportionate where Ecuador suffered no prejudice from the alleged non-compliance.

Apple over the past few weeks has removed a number of popular Iranian apps from various international iOS App Stores, saying the move is in line with U.S. sanctions against the country.

The sanction has effectively prohibited Venezuela from participating in the international economic landscape.

Persons on international sanctions lists, their relatives, and those from sanctioned territories are among those barred from Telegram's closed token sale rounds, local Russian business journal RBC reports today, March 15.