Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted accusations of “piracy”, unlawful coercion, and a renewed U.S.

If sanctions were going to have an effect on global reserve holdings, we presumably would have seen it by now. In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has totally reoriented the U.S. approach to ...

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Rebuilding Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion and a year of unrelenting Russian military assaults will require far more resources than can be obtained from just ...

A group of legal experts sought to bolster the case for seizing frozen Russian central bank assets, arguing that such actions are allowed under international law given the scale of Russia’s continuing ...

France’s finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, said there was no legal rationale for giving the Russian central bank funds to Ukraine. By Alan Rappeport Alan Rappeport covers the Treasury Department and ...

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