... while the block remains committed to a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers. A 2015 UN resolution that enshrines the nuclear deal “called upon” Iran to refrain for up to eight years from wo ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-08
... signed to block the spread of nuclear arms. US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson on Thursday held last-ditch talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minist ...More
EJ Insight2019-02-01
China has triggered the legal process for the World Trade Organization to hear Beijing’s challenge to US tariffs imposed on US$234 billion of goods, and berated the United States for blocking the appo ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
... ent would block Maduro from accessing PDVSA assets worth US$7 billion and cost him US$11 billion in lost export proceeds over the next year. The United States stopped short, however, of imposing a ban ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-29
... amco in a block deal. Hyundai Heavy said it plans to “reconsider” the stock market listing of the refinery arm after completing the stake sale, possibly this year. Hyundai Oilbank, which had aimed to ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-28
Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, the company said, making it the latest foreign technology service to be shut down behind the country’s Great Firewall. “We’ve confirmed ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-24
... seats to block routine legislation. Hong Kong has already outlawed the desecration of national flags and emblems, which can attract jail terms of three years. Calls for outright independence are a re ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-23
... stumbling block in his bid for a second term in the 2020 election. Worse still, Trump’s intransigent stance is likely to provide more ammunition for other presidential hopefuls to rail against him. A ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
... steadily blocking shipments since 2017. The initial 2017 ban on 24 types of imported waste, including plastic and paper, was extended at the end of 2018 to 16 new products, including scrap ships and ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-16
... ompletely block the measure last year. They could be seen as all bark and no bite. If anything, what the saga has shown is that our elected representatives in the legislature seem far more interested ...More
EJ Insight2019-01-15
... rtment to block U.S. companies from buying equipment from foreign telecommunications makers that pose significant national security risks, sources from the telecoms industry and the administration sai ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-28
... d it will block the path to denuclearization on the Korean peninsula forever - a result desired by no one,” the statement said. The sharp words came after the United States said that it had introduced ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-17
... sidential block at Ricci Hall that bears his name”. Deignan was born in 1927 in the village of Mullagh in County Cavan, Ireland. He came from a family of 13 children. He became a novice in the Society ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-12
... tentially blocking ports and hitting trade, that parliament would be under strong pressure to block it. The ultimate outcome will shape Britain’s US$2.8 trillion economy, have far-reaching consequenc ...More
EJ Insight2018-12-11
