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The US accused several Chinese companies of shipping machines that make counterfeit pills to the US and Mexico, and hit more than a dozen entities with sanctions as it looks to crack down on a trade officials say is contributing to the opioid crisis.

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico who it accused of enabling counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pill production, as the Biden administration seeks to stem imports of the deadly drug.

Treasury Department accuses those involved of selling equipment used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico who it accused of enabling counterfeit, fentanyl-

WASHINGTON - The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico who it accused of enabling counterfeit, fentanyl-

The United States accused Russia's Wagner Group in Mali of working to obtain military gear from Mali for Russia's war in Ukraine and sending surface-to-air missiles to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan. The US Treasury said in a statement Thursday that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had sanctioned the head of Wagner in Mali, Ivan Aleksandrovich Maslov, after it found that the Group employees may have been attempting to work through Mali to acquire warfighting equipme...

Tunisia's national guard on Friday announced the arrest of a suspected ISIS group member in possession of explosives who was planning "four simultaneous terrorist operations" in the country. The suspect was arrested in Tunisia's second city of Sfax on its eastern coast and was believed to have been planning the operations "in coordination with other persons outside Tunisia", national guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli told AFP.

The Wagner Group may be trying to smuggle weapons to Ukraine from Mali as Russia continues its invasion of the country, U.S. officials say.

The United States has sanctioned a top Russian paramilitary outfit commander and two senior Malian military officials for their roles in one of the most brutal massacres the country has experienced in recent history.

The Wagner Group may be trying to smuggle weapons to Ukraine from Mali as Russia continues its invasion of the country, U.S. officials say.