The European Union is drafting proposals to impose a ban on the import of Russian oil, the top diplomats of Ireland, Lithuania, and the Netherlands have declared despite no consensus on the issue by member nations.

European Union leaders decide to come together this week to consider imposing tougher sanctions on Russia, including an oil embargo, amid a simmering crisis in Ukraine.

Qatar's emir names an ambassador to Saudi Arabia after four years of dispute.

China calls on the United States to immediately and fully lift its sanctions and decades-long embargo against Cuba, and to stop making excuses to interfere in and destabilize the small Caribbean island.

Iran’s deputy envoy to the UN warns of the adverse effects that unilateral US sanctions have on international peace as the General Assembly adopts a resolution against the nearly 60-year-old US economic embargo on Cuba.

Hundreds of cars and cyclists carrying Cuban flags take to Havana's Malecon to call for an end to the United States sanctions.

United Nations (UN) experts assess that the arms embargo imposed on Libya by the world body continues to be violated on a regular basis and remains "totally ineffective."