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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria

    Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities

    A satellite image of Russia-operated Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Iran
    German company caught smuggling chemical plant to Iran

    Aiotec GmbH agrees $14.5mn settlement with US after disguising shipment of dismantled polypropylene facility

    Aiotec business logo
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    US trade
    How the car industry is exposed to Trump’s tariffs

    US president-elect’s pledge to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada would disrupt sector’s complex supply chain

    A rear-side view of Donald Trump wearing a Maga cap, in front of logos of Volkswagen, General Motors, Ford, Stellantis
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israel-Hamas war in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the conflict and its regional impact, including in Lebanon

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Money laundering
    UK imposes sanctions on Isabel dos Santos in money laundering crackdown

    Africa’s former richest woman and exiled Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash among trio hit by measures

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    British Overseas Territories
    Russian sanctions busting linked to British Overseas Territories

    Lack of open ownership records complicate efforts to find out who is involved in the trade

    Tortola in the British Virgin Islands
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    News in-depthJames Dyson
    How James Dyson’s farming empire may be hit by £120mn in death duties

    Billionaire known for vacuums and hairdryers has become one of UK’s largest farmers

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US cracks down on Russia’s facilitators worldwide

    About 400 companies and individuals in China, India, Turkey and other countries are added to sanctions list

    Worker at a Rosatom facility
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Latvia
    Former bank boss in Latvia jailed for ordering killing of whistleblower

    LPB Bank owner Mihails Ulmans sentenced to 15 years over hit on lawyer who suspected money-laundering

    Businessman Mihails Ulmans is escorted into the court session in the Vidzeme suburb court of the city of Riga
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Turkey blocks exports of military-linked goods to Russia after US warning

    Customs system no longer allows exporters to proceed with sensitive shipments

    Ukrainian officials stand next to part of a missile that landed on a street in Kyiv during a Russian attack in May last year
  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    US firm’s Russia work prompts Congress to demand stricter sanctions

    Letter to Biden administration warns SLB is helping finance ‘barbaric invasion’ of Ukraine

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK cracks down on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

    Sanctions include restrictions on six vessels recently identified by the FT

    UK foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Radar shows scale of damage from Israeli strikes on Lebanon

    Satellite data shows more than 3,100 buildings affected as intense wave of attacks kills over 1,300 people

    Image of a bombed-out building in Beirut paired with a map of Lebanon highlighting affected areas
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sheikh Hasina
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

    Emerson Bainbridge House in London
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sudan
    Russians and Ukrainians help train same side in Sudan’s war

    Intelligence officers say retired pilots from Ukraine and snipers from Russia are both working with Sudanese Armed Forces

    Members of Sudanese Armed Forces take part in an Army Day military parade  in Port Sudan last month
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Russia
    Putin’s flagship Arctic gas project struggles to lure customers

    US sanctions appear to be deterring buyers, satellite images and ship-tracking data suggest

    The Saam floating storage unit in the Arctic waters off northern Russia has been taking LNG shipments from a key gas field
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia built covert trade channel with India, leaks reveal

    Files outline Moscow’s plan to spend rupees from oil sales on sensitive electronics for war effort

    A montage of a hand holding Indian bank notes, a plane, arrows and a computer chip
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    US threatens sanctions against countries hosting Russian banks

    Deputy Treasury secretary Adeyemo says Washington will ‘go after’ branches used by Moscow to circumvent trade restrictions

    The Russian national flag flies atop the Russian State Duma building in central Moscow
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Top US oil group expands in Russia as rivals pull out

    Texas-based company has signed new contracts and recruited hundreds of staff despite the war in Ukraine

    Schlumberger installation on a drilling site in Russia
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Russia
    Russian navy trained to target sites inside Europe with nuclear-capable missiles

    Secret presentation for officers reveals plans for overwhelming strikes in early stages of potential war against Nato

    Montage of a map of Europe and a warship
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Turkey
    US warns Turkey of ‘consequences’ over military-linked exports to Russia

    Washington seeks more action from Ankara in curbing trade pivotal to Moscow war machine 

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Russian economy
    Cargo ship spotted at Russian gas terminal under US sanctions

    Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia’s high north has so far been unable to export liquefied natural gas

    Satellite imagery shows a vessel roughly 280 metres long docked at the Arctic LNG 2 on August 1
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    News in-depthMiddle East war
    ‘We thought we lived in Tuscany’: Hizbollah strikes ravage Israel’s north

    Radar imagery and interviews show damage from cross-border attacks amid fears of escalating war

    Fires burn as a result of rockets launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, next to the city of Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanon border, on June 3 2024
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Free LunchRussian business & finance
    No time to give up on Russia sanctions Premium content

    Kremlin has not been stopped in its tracks — but it does have sand in its gears

    A Russian flag and missile cruiser
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Russian business & finance
    Spy-linked Russians restart trade with German toolmaker

    Heller Tools exported machinery to entities linked to a covert FSB smuggling network

    Heller Tools factory
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