
The United States has imposed new sanctions targeting North Korea following its renewed ballistic missile launches. The US Treasury Department levied sanctions Friday against two Russian banks, a North Korean company and a person it accused of supporting the North’s weapons program. The department said it was criminalizing any transactions ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for vigorous competition with arch-foe China to preserve the existing global order but hastened to add that Washington did not seek a “Cold War.” In a speech at George Washington University, the top US diplomat outlined the Biden administration’s approach as “invest, ...