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Month: November 2022

Biden administration set to ask Congress for additional funding for Ukraine, Covid, and disaster recovery

By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is calling on Congress to include additional funding in the must-pass government package for what it said are three “critical funding needs”: Continued support for the people of Ukraine, Covid-19 response and natural disaster recovery. Congress returned for a lame duck session on Monday and has a short

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US sanctions firms involved in production and transfer of Iranian drones to Russia

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US Treasury Department on Tuesday unveiled additional sanctions on the entities involved in the production and transfer of Iranian drones to Russia. The sanctions target several aviation related companies and two individuals — Abbas Djuma and Tigran Khristoforovich Srabionov — who facilitated the Russian mercenary Wagner Group’s “acquisition of UAVs

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