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OFAC Sanctions Leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

By Editors | 08/01/2025

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US government has determined that the RSF has “perpetrated genocide” in Sudan

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US Adds Dozens More Chinese Tech Firms to Military Blacklist

By Editors | 08/01/2025

The new additions include Tencent, CATL, COSCO and others, alleging they work with China’s military and support its modernisation efforts.

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US Adds Myanmar and China-based Companies to Entity List

By Editors | 07/01/2025

11 entities were added for supporting China’s military. Telecom provider Mytel was added for enabling surveillance of Myanmar people.

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OFAC Fines Aviation Products Supplier for Russia Shipments

By Editors | 07/01/2025

OFAC attributed the violations to the firm’s failure to rescreen customers after their SDN designation, and inadequate sanctions compliance procedures

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US Eases Some Restrictions on Transactions in Syria

By Editors | 07/01/2025

Transactions with governing institutions in Syria allowed “even if a designated individual has a leadership role in that governing institution”

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OFAC Sanctions Chinese Firm for Supporting Hacker Group

By Editors | 06/01/2025

OFAC said the cybersecurity firm, by supporting a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group, was complicit in activities that threatened US national security

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China Adds 28 US Companies to Export Control List

By Editors | 06/01/2025

Ten of the companies were also added to China’s “unreliable entities” list. MOFCOM is separately considering restricting the export of battery tech.

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Russia-EU Gas Flows via Ukraine Come to a Halt

By Editors | 06/01/2025

The European Commission said most EU states could cope with the change. Gazprom will lose around $5bn in annual gas sales.

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US Sanctions Iranian, Russian Entities for Election Interference

By Editors | 04/01/2025

OFAC said affiliates of Iran’s IRGC and Russia’s GRU aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the 2024 US election