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In "Watershed Moment" China Orders Companies To Defy US Sanctions China ordered companies in the country not to comply with US sanctions on five domestic refiners linked to the Iranian oil trade, deploying for the first time a blocking measure introduced in 2021 that was aimed at protecting its firms from foreign laws it deemed unjustified.  Refiners - including Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery which was sanctioned last month and several other privately-owned processors - had been facing asset freezes and transaction bans. Hengli was the most ambitious target to date in China’s refining sector, and...

Harvey Weinstein (Finally) Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime. The Sept. 23 sentencing was for the sexual assault of then-TV production assistant Miriam Haley, and comes after Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned. A jury found Weinstein guilty at last year's retrial. In 2024, Weinstein's conviction for this same crime, which was handed down in 2020, was erased due to a judge's determination that the jury had heard...

Hezbollah has reported firing a cruise missile at an Israeli warship operating 68 nautical miles off the Lebanese coast, and further claimed to have scored a “direct hit” on the warship. Details of the hit remain unclear, as the IDF claims to be totally unaware of any such incident, while some videos claim to show […]