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NEWS ABOUT: embargo

embargo stories: 9 news summaries

 UAE Seizes Ship Bringing 
 N. Korean Arms to Iran 

Shipment violates UN ban on weapons exports from Pyongyang

Aug 28, 09 9:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in the United Arab Emirates today seized a ship carrying weapons from North Korea to Iran, the Financial Times reports—a violation of United Nations resolutions barring Pyongyang from exporting arms. The shipment was headed for a company linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which has previously been banned... More »

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Iran • North Korea • ship • Pyongyang • embargo • United Arab Emirates • UN resolution • arms embargo

What Embargo? HP Printers Find Their Way to Iran

Company skirts US 
law with help from
overseas distributor

Dec 29, 08 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - HP printers have become top-sellers in Tehran, despite a 13-year embargo against US companies doing business with Iran, the Boston Globe reports. An Indian-owned distributor sells HP products in Iran, enabling it to skirt American law. But questions remain: If HP execs cut the deal with Redington Gulf knowing their... More »

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Iran • Tehran • sanctions • trade • embargo • Department of Commerce • printers • Hewlett-Packard

McCain Blasts Obama for Saying He'd Talk to Cuba

Dodd, Richardson strike back, criticize Republicans' hard-line approach

May 20, 08 4:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain told Miami’s Cuban community today that Barack Obama would “give hope” to the Havana regime by sitting down with Raul Castro without preconditions, prompting a response from Bill Richardson that McCain was “afraid to talk to bad guys.” Speaking on Cuban Independence Day, the... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Bill Richardson • Cuba • embargo • Chris Dodd • Raul Castro

UN Aid to Gaza Blocked by Israeli Embargo

Negotiations fall apart after Libyan compares Strip to Nazi camp

Apr 24, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United Nations announced today that it will have to suspend its humanitarian aid program in the Gaza Strip because of the Israeli fuel blockade. The UN can't distribute food or collect sewage in the Hamas-controlled territory now that its fuel supply has run out. A Security Council meeting was... More »

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Israel • United Nations • Gaza • embargo • Gaza blockade • Ban Ki-Moon

US Official: Embargo Kept Cuba From Meddling

Policy starved Castro's military of funds

Sep 20, 07 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decades-old US trade embargo against Cuba has been "an absolute and resounding success," the Cuban-born US commerce secretary said today. Carlos Gutierrez told a Latin America conference that the policy has stopped the island's communist government from orchestrating military attacks. But the embargo, in place since 1962,... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • embargo • dictatorship • Raul Castro • Carlos Gutierrez • Cuban embargo

Raul Castro Assumes Spotlight

Dictator's brother fills in at annual rite, rapping US, Bush

Jul 26, 07 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fidel Castro did not give his usual sermon at Cuba's annual Revolution Day celebration today; instead, his brother Raul took center stage. The no-longer-quite-so-interim leader, who assumed power a year ago because of his brother's health problems, told a cheering crowd that he's willing to negotiate with the US after... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • United States • embargo • Raul Castro • Camaguey • Revolution Day • interim leader

Iran Erupts Over Gas Rationing

Leaders fear West will cut fuel imports

Jun 27, 07 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry Iranians torched Tehran gas stations yesterday and smashed windows as protests against gas rationing turned violent, the BBC reports. Motorists formed huge lines to fill  tanks before new laws took effect limiting Iranians to 26 gallons of gas a month. Despite its oil reserves, Iran is short of refining... More »

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Iran • oil • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • gas • protests • embargo • rationing

US, EU to Renew Palestinian Aid

End of embargoes bolsters Hamas-led emergency government

Jun 18, 07 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US and the EU demonstrated support for the emergency Palestinian government today through separate pledges to lift economic embargoes and renew aid to the Palestinian Authority. The promises follow Mahmoud Abbas' establishment of a pro-peace cabinet without members of Hamas, putting the US in the curious position of supporting... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • European Union • Condoleezza Rice • United States • Palestinian civil war • aid • embargo

Aid Grows Despite Embargo

Mar 21, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Palestinians are actually receiving more foreign aid, not less,  than they were before the US and the European Union slapped an aid embargo against the Hamas led Palestinian Authority last year, reports Steven Erlanger. The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund say $1.2 billion was given to... More »

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Palestinian Authority • United Nations • World Bank • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • European Union • International Monetary Fund • United States • foreign aid • aid • embargo • World Food

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