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US Presses Turkey With Threat Of Economic Sanctions
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 1:02pm | 446Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to impose severe economic sanctions on Turkey's political leadership and military for recent attacks against Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Turkey immediately took military action after President Trump on Oct. 9 signed an executive order to...
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Why Russia (And Probably Exxon) Want The U.S. To Lift Economic Sanctions
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 1:10pm | 728Word that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with the head of a Russian bank makes now a good time to look at the U.S. economic sanctions meant to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of the Ukraine, and why Moscow would go to great lengths to get them lifted. A slew of...