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☆ U.S. blacklists companies for aiding Russian military
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday added 24 companies and other entities to an export control list for supporting Russia’s military or defense industrial base, Pakistan's nuclear activities or for supplying an Iranian electronics company. The companies include Fiber Optic Solutions in Latvia, which produces fiber optic gyroscopes and other equipment and Russia's AO Kraftway Corporation PSC, which calls itself one of the biggest Russian IT companies. Also on the list are Russian AO Scientific Research Center for Electronic Computing, LLC Fibersense, and Scientific Production Company Optolin, AO PKK Milandr; Milandr EK OOO; Milandr ICC JSC; Milur IS, OOO; (OOO) Microelectronic Production Complex (MPK) Milandr; and Ruselectronics JSC and Swiss based Milur SA. The Biden administration also added 10 companies in Pakistan and UAE that it says pose unacceptable risks of using or diverting items for Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear activities or are involved Pakistan's "nuclear activities and missile proliferation-related activities." Suppliers of U.S. goods must seek a special a difficult-to-obtain license before shipping to companies added to the list.
☆ Exclusive: U.S. aims to sanction Brazil deforesters, adding bite to climate fight
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Gabriel Stargardter Brad Haynes | Gabriel Stargardter | Brad Haynes | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Magnitsky sanctions aim to punish those accused of corruption or enabling human rights abuses. The U.S. Treasury Department, which is responsible for Magnitsky sanctions, declined to comment. U.S. officials in Brazil and the United States have already begun the process of identifying and investigating specific targets, the source said, with potential punishments ranging from visa blacklists to Global Magnitsky sanctions. It is unclear when or if the United States could sanction specific targets, as the investigations can take a while. Targeting environmental criminals with Global Magnitsky sanctions is unusual but not unprecedented.
☆ Israel's president opens talks ahead of expected Netanyahu mandate
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Herzog began consultations with political parties on Wednesday, meeting representatives from Netanyahu's Likud party, to be followed by meetings with other party representatives over the coming days. He said he expected to complete the talks on Friday and assign the task of forming a government on Sunday. Last week's election saw Netanyahu end a stalemate after five elections in less than four years. "There is a clear mandate from most of the public to form a right-wing government," he said. Earlier on Wednesday, Herzog issued a statement dismissing local reports that he was pushing for a unity government with outgoing centrist premier Yair Lapid and National Unity party leader Benny Gantz.
☆ Israel's president to meet factions, pick nominee to form government
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Israel's President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday he will begin consulting all elected parties on Wednesday before tasking a candidate with forming the next government. The meetings, planned over three days, are set to begin after the president receives the official results of Israel's fifth election in less than four years. Once the president picks a candidate to assemble a new government, the nominee will have 28 days to talk to potential coalition partners, with a possible 14-day extension. He is now buoyed by far-right and religious parties that include ultranationalist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir. Netanyahu held an informal meeting with Ben-Gvir on Monday, where the two discussed forming "a full-on right wing government", Ben-Gvir said in tweet.
☆ Analysis: As Netanyahu returns, concerns grow over far-right ally
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( James Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
[1/5] Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by wife Sara Netanyahu, addresses his supporters at his party headquarters during Israel's general election in Jerusalem, November 2, 2022. "This party is a huge success, no religious party in Israel has ever achieved such a number," he said. With the conflict with the Palestinians surging anew and touching off Jewish-Arab tensions within Israel, Ben-Gvir on Thursday tweeted: "The time has come to impose order here. Contrary to his hawkish image, Netanyahu has often taken a more flexible and pragmatic approach than some of his predecessors. "Netanyahu now has a personal interest in limiting the power of law authorities and the Supreme Court because of his trial," Shapira said.
☆ Lawbreaker to Israeli kingmaker? Far-right Ben-Gvir surges in vote
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
In government, however, Ben-Gvir - who wants to be police minister - would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain Jewish-Arab relations inside Israel. Burly and bespectacled, Ben-Gvir has for decades engaged in raging arguments with Arabs and liberals on curbsides or in the Knesset. The yellow trappings of Israeli supremacist groups was banished from his campaign, replaced by the national colours, blue and white. A settler on the West Bank which Israel captured and occupied in 1967, Ben-Gvir wants the Palestinian Authority, which has governed parts of the territory under interim peace deals, dismantled. That would place West Bank Palestinians back under full Israeli control.
☆ Xi wanted China to be at the tech frontier. 5 years on, tensions with the U.S. have dented that goal
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +10 min
Major Chinese technology firms have been put on export blacklists since then. Looking ahead, the latest package of U.S. controls will make a huge dent in China's technology ambitions. Paul Triolo technology policy lead, Albright StonebridgeThings did not look as "bleak" for China's semiconductors in 2017 as they do now, Triolo said. China's tech crackdownA major hallmark of Xi's last five years is how he has transformed China into one of the strictest regulatory regimes globally for technology. China's technology giants are also posting their slowest growth in history, partly due to tighter regulations.
☆ U.S. aims to hobble China’s chip industry with sweeping new export rules
  + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
The raft of measures could amount to the biggest shift in U.S. policy toward shipping technology to China since the 1990s. If effective, they could set China’s chip manufacturing industry back years by forcing American and foreign companies that use U.S. technology to cut off support for some of China’s leading factories and chip designers. On Friday, the Biden administration applied the expanded restrictions to China’s IFLYTEK, Dahua Technology, and Megvii Technology, companies added to the entity list in 2019 over allegations they aided Beijing in the suppression of its Uigher minority group. The “unverified list” is a potential stepping stone to tougher economic blacklists, but companies that comply with U.S. inspection rules can come off the list. On Friday, U.S. officials removed nine such firms, including China’s Wuxi Biologics, which makes ingredients for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.
☆ There's an underground market where secondhand Amazon merchant accounts are bought and sold for thousands of dollars
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Rob Price | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
There's a gray market for secondhand Amazon seller accounts, an Insider investigation found. Rogue merchants buy these accounts to evade Amazon security and sell dodgy products. An Insider investigation revealed a thriving gray market for secondhand Amazon seller accounts. Such sales typically break Amazon's rules, and allow rogue sellers to evade Amazon's security and verification checks. Read Insider's full investigation into the market for second-hand Amazon seller accounts, and Amazon's failures to police its users »Got a tip?
☆ A 'dystopian horror story.' Inside the thriving underground market for used Amazon seller accounts that's causing chaos, identity theft, and distrust in the company's massive online marketplace
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Rob Price | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +16 min
On Telegram and forums like Swapd and PlayerUp, a gray market for secondhand Amazon seller accounts thrives. On public Telegram groups, Amazon account sellers openly advertise their goods and how they've passed Amazon's verification checks. She'd never had an Amazon seller account and sold jewelry directly through her website. Amazon is asleep at the wheel"Amazon is asleep at the wheel," Jason Boyce, a consultant for Amazon sellers, said. AI engineer François Chollet has been plagued by counterfeiters selling fake copies of his books via Amazon accounts with stolen identities.
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