The Indian owners of three vessels chartered to Nayara Energy have asked the Russian-backed firm to end their contracts following recent European Union sanctions on the refiner, six sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

A billionaire ally of Roman Abramovich lost a last ditch attempt to lift sanctions at the UK top court, as judges declared that the measures had to be tough to be effective.

The Netherlands has banned two far-right Israeli ministers from entering the country. The move comes as the European Union considers partially suspending Israel’s access to a science and technology program.

By Nidhi Verma and Mohi Narayan NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Russia-backed Indian refiner Nayara Energy has reduced operations at its 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery in the aftermath of new European Union sanctions that targeted the firm,

When the economic violence of broad sanctions becomes widely known, they will be indefensible and no longer politically sustainable.

Germany, France and the United Kingdom hold talks with Iran in Istanbul Friday, just days after the three European nations warned they would reimpose stiff sanctions on Tehran.

Serbia has secured a fifth postponement of planned U.S. sanctions against Russian-owned oil firm NIS , which operates the country's only oil refinery, Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Monday.

Iranian and European diplomats are set to meet in Istanbul to embark on the latest drive to unpick the deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear program

Russia is very afraid of sanctions, even though it pretends these measures won’t affect it. That’s why it is crucial to increase sanctions pressure and force the aggressor to make peace, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Telegram.