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US, UK hit Myanmar with new sanctions two years after coup

  Bloomberg The US and its allies Canada, the UK and Australia have imposed fresh sanctions on Myanmar, adding to pressure on the military regime, two years since it overthrew the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Tuesday the US restrictions target six individuals and ...

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US accuses Russia of breaching New START nuclear arms treaty

  Bloomberg Russia is breaching the terms of the New START nuclear-arms reduction treaty by refusing to allow inspectors on its territory and stonewalling US efforts to discuss the issue, the State Department said. The department said in a statement that the Russian refusal “prevents the United States from exercising important rights under the treaty and threatens the viability of ...

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Georgia wants Russia to leave its land in a Ukraine peace deal

  Bloomberg Georgia’s president said Russia must be required to abandon its nearly 15-year-long occupation of her nation’s territory as part of an eventual peace deal to end the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. “Russia has to learn where its borders are,” President Salome Zourabichvili said in an interview in the capital, Tbilisi. “The Georgian issues should be on the table ...

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