Russia vows retaliation as Biden imposes sanctions
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US punishes Russia for interfering in last year s election.
The US government has blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and barred US banks from buying sovereign bonds.
Russia denies meddling in US elections, orchestrating a cyber hack to penetrate US government networks.
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: The United States on Thursday imposed a broad array of sanctions on Russia, including curbs to its sovereign debt market, to punish it for interfering in last year s US election, cyber hacking, bullying Ukraine and other alleged malign actions.
The US government blacklisted Russian companies, expelled Russian diplomats and barred US banks from buying sovereign bonds from Russia s central bank, national wealth fund and Finance Ministry. The United States warned Russia that more penalties were possible but said it did not want to escalate.
Turkey To Continue Push Into Drone Industry After Canadian Ban, Analysts Say Kristina Jovanovski 04/16/2021
Ankara has grown its arms industry over the past decade, along with more aggressive foreign policy
Turkey’s growing arms industry was served a setback when NATO ally Canada said it would stop selling advanced drone technology to Ankara, but the measure is unlikely to deal lasting harm to the sector, analysts tell The Media Line.
Ottawa on Monday said it was canceling export permits for drone technology, including cameras, to Ankara after finding “credible evidence” that Canadian-manufactured equipment was sent to Turkey’s close ally Azerbaijan, which then used it against Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
LEADing EFFORT TO BLOCK ISRAEL FROM USING U.S. AID TO DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOMES
Putting conditions on U.S. aid to Israel has become a controversial topic but it was the norm in Washington just a few decades ago.
SINCE 2015, Rep.
Betty McCollum, D-Minn., has been the leading congressional critic of
Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children, introducing multiple pieces of legislation that would bar Israel from using U.S. military aid to
arrest Palestinian youth.
By targeting Israel’s detention of Palestinian children just one aspect of Israel’s military occupation, but one that involved a highly vulnerable population McCollum was attempting to make her bills appeal to the widest swath of Democrats possible.
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