The European Union failed to agree new sanctions against Russia after France and Luxembourg blocked the plan; EU sanctions need approval from all 27 member countries.
Britain's new sanctions blocking trade in goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank (Palestinian land Israel has built Jewish communities on) have started.
The Wall Street Journal reported that billions of dollars connected to Iran have kept passing through US banks, even though sanctions are meant to keep Iran's money out of the American banking system.
The European Union is preparing what would be its largest sanctions package against Russia since the country's full invasion of Ukraine, according to the news outlet Seznam Zprávy.
The United States sanctioned the president of the International Criminal Court, a court in the Netherlands that prosecutes war crimes.
Senate Democrats are asking the Trump administration why it has issued no new sanctions in 17 months against networks that help Russia dodge existing sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
Since clearing its 86-12 procedural vote, the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 has been narrowed to cap tariffs at 100 percent on the top five Russian energy buyers. Twelve EU states, including Czechia, still import some Russian energy, and Democrats warn the tariff power Trump would gain never expires.
On Monday, US diplomats left a UN Security Council meeting while France was speaking about Ukraine.
A short news report says Burnham, a British politician, has said he wants the UK to work more closely with the European Union (EU) as the government rethinks its relationship after Brexit, the UK's departure from the EU.
Friedrich Merz used his post-NATO-summit government statement to announce that Germany will buy US Tomahawk cruise missiles. The headlines say "purchase"; the reporting says "can purchase". The gap between the two is where the politics lives.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump's freeloader broadside meets a German pushback from Wadephul, even as allies line up a $160bn pledge for Ukraine. The clash is less about one insult than about who leads European burden-sharing — and whether Berlin can carry it.
NATO leaders gather in Ankara under a Trump pressure campaign over defence spending, with Ukraine support and a fractured transatlantic bond hanging in the balance. Here's what's actually being decided — and what to watch.