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The United States and Russia asked the Security Council to toughen and broaden sanctions against the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

However, the US House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea's nuclear program.

The international community needs to keep up the diplomatic pressure and broaden sanctions to include the energy sector until those enabling Mr. Assad — the military and the business community — force him out.

The United States and Russia asked the Security Council today to toughen and broaden sanctions against the Taliban government of Afghanistan, measures that would cut the country off from most contact with the world.

The statement also said the ministers would look at additional ways in coming weeks to broaden sanctions aimed at Iran's financial system, transportation and energy sectors and the Revolutionary Guard, a segment of the Iran armed forces that Western nations suspect oversees a clandestine nuclear weapons program.

North Korea has nothing to fear from any U.S. move to broaden sanctions aimed at cutting it off from the global financial system and will pursue "acceleration" of its nuclear and missile programs, a Pyongyang envoy told Reuters on Tuesday.

The union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said the union was discussing how to broaden its sanctions.

Even in the face of further Russian incursions, it's perfectly possible that efforts to broaden the sanctions could founder.

The list is the first time the EU has targeted people thought to be behind chemical weapons attacks, after a decision in October to broaden the sanctions regime.

While the European Union has done little to maintain sanctions pressure on Russia since they were implemented on Moscow in 2014, the United States has continually acted to tighten and broaden existing sanctions.

"I want to be with these guys at the blackjack table".OFAC declined to comment on these specific cases or on whether it might broaden its sanctions so that businesses subject to this sort of share transfer remain blacklisted.