'If the right people are sanctioned in response to the Navalny poisoning, that will have a seriously crippling effect on the Putin regime,' one expert says.

Iran's foreign minister said he did not want military confrontation but "won't blink to defend our territory.''

Trump said the sanctions would have been imposed regardless of the incident over the drone.

The Treasury Department announcement came while the President Donald Trump met with leaders from five Caribbean nations, where Venezuela was at the top of the agenda.

Canada, the U.S., and EU imposed sweeping sanctions on Friday over Russia's actions against Ukraine, including its 2018 attack on Ukrainian ships and annexation of Crimea.

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As countries and institutions around the world are dropping Chinese tech giant Huawei from their contact lists, many are asking if Canada will do the same.

The Trump administration on Tuesday slapped financial sanctions on four members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's inner circle, including his wife and the nation's vice-president, on allegations of corruption.

The State Department said the U.S. this week made the determination that Russia had used the Novichok nerve agent to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, and that sanctions would follow.

Ali Soofi conspired to export military items from the U.S. to Iran in violation of sanctions, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said.