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UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese in Cape Town, South Africa, October 28, 2025. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)
May 28, 2026, 5:42 am
US reimposes sanctions on anti-Israel UN rapporteur, one week after dropping them
Resumption of measures reverses federal judge’s earlier ruling that said blacklisting of Francesca Albanese likely violated her free-speech rights
By Agencies and ToI Staff
UN Special Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza Francesca Albanese speaks at a press conference in Geneva on September 15, 2025. (Fabrice Cofrini/ AFP)
May 21, 2026, 11:39 am
US Treasury removes anti-Israel UN envoy Francesca Albanese from sanctions list
A week after federal judge nixed Trump administration’s sanctions on firebrand UN special rapporteur on free speech grounds, she is quietly taken off list of sanctioned individuals
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper speaks during a news conference with Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, after their talk on April 20, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP/ Eugene Hoshiko)
May 11, 2026, 8:25 pm
UK slaps sanctions on dozen people and entities deemed ‘criminal proxies’ of Iran
New measures come amid wave of arson attacks, allegedly backed by Tehran, on Jewish sites in London, though specific Iran-linked terror group not on list
By Agencies
Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks to the media at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)
April 30, 2026, 2:24 am
Senior diplomat meets Russian envoy, spurns EU rep amid stolen Ukraine grain fight
Jerusalem says ‘tweets’ from Kyiv not sufficient to prove grain seized by Russia is reaching Israel; Ukraine working with EU to sanction those involved in ‘this theft and illegal trade’
By Lazar Berman
Left: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky reacts during a press conference at the German-Ukrainian government consultations in Berlin Germany, on April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi); Right: Gideon Sa’ar speaks during a meeting of the Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2026, 7:05 pm
Israel says no proof Russian grain shipment ‘stolen,’ as Ukraine threatens sanctions
FM Sa’ar again accuses Zelensky of ‘Twitter diplomacy,’ after Ukrainian president says Israel ‘cannot be unaware’ cargo at Haifa port came from Russian-occupied territory
By Stav Levaton, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese talks to The Associated Press at the Sarajevo airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thursday, July 10, 2025, on her way to events commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
February 27, 2026, 1:11 am
Family of anti-Israel UN rapporteur Albanese sues Trump over sanctions
Lawsuit claims Italian diplomat Francesca Albanese’s family is ‘part of the national community’ because her daughter was born in US
By Luke Tress and Reuters
An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, ICC on December 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
December 12, 2025, 2:18 pm
ICC officials confront curbs to travel, finances in face of sweeping US sanctions
Sanctioned staff lose access to credit cards, emails, travel visas and Amazon’s Alexa over court’s warrants for PM, Gallant, and US officials; Canadian judge says officials ‘undeterred’
By AP and ToI Staff
Mohammad Dalal looks at scorched cars in his scrapyard that was set ablaze the night before by people who local residents alleged were Israeli settlers in the town of Huwara near the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
November 21, 2025, 6:51 pm
Palestinians report 7 settler attacks overnight amid escalating West Bank violence
At least 2 Palestinians said be hospitalized for injuries they suffered during attacks on homes, vehicles and other property
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Elisha Yered at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 21, 2025, 11:08 am
Singapore sanctions four Israelis over ‘extreme violence’ against Palestinians
Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel committed ‘unlawful actions,’ foreign ministry says, as it imposes entry bans, financial penalties
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly speaking to the media during a visit to the offices of Alone in Dublin, October 8, 2025. (PA Images via Reuters Connect)
October 9, 2025, 1:34 pm
Irish presidential frontrunner pans government for seeking to soften Israel sanctions
Catherine Connolly’s comments are echoed by independent parliament member Frances Black, who claims sanctions are vital
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An Elbit Systems' staff member looks at his phone at the Eurosatory international land and airland defence and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
October 5, 2025, 8:02 am
Spain keeps scrapping arms deals, but Israel’s defense trade with Europe may be salvageable
Madrid’s position is an outlier, likely a product of internal politics, experts say; rest of NATO unlikely to cut off a top weapons supplier just as it looks to rearm against Russia
By Stav Levaton
The Israeli (2R) and Irish (R) flags flutter outside the building housing the offices of the Embassy of Ireland in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv on May 22, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
October 3, 2025, 2:33 pm
Ireland said set to soften planned sanctions on Israel, under pressure from businesses
Multinational corporations, which pay almost a third of Ireland’s taxes, warn against discouraging US investors or drawing retaliatory American sanctions on participating companies
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP/Omar Havana, File)
September 23, 2025, 5:19 am
US may soon sanction entire International Criminal Court over Israel war crimes probe
Sources say UN court has paid salaries in advance, taken other steps to mitigate fallout if Trump administration imposes ‘entity sanctions’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An Arrow anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile during Israel's 12-day conflict with Iran, in am image cleared for publication on July 1, 2025. (Defense Ministry)
September 16, 2025, 11:53 am
Israeli defense tech to get state-backed guarantees to support innovation
Some $60m set to be allocated as incentives for investment into development of young defense tech startups, in bid to boost technological independence on the battlefield
By Sharon Wrobel
In this photo, released by Belarusian Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian talk to each other during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, August 20, 2025. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)
August 20, 2025, 3:29 pm
Belarus and Iran, both friends of Putin, plan to strengthen military and broader ties
Pezeshkian tells Lukashenko that he can help ‘neutralize’ the impact of ‘illegal Western sanctions,’ citing 40 years of experience
By Mark Trevelyan
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