The United States announced widespread sanctions against Russia’s energy sector Friday, designating more than 180 ships and two major oil companies just days before outgoing President Joe Biden leaves office.

President Joe Biden's administration says it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector over its war in Ukraine

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. has carefully calibrated its sanctions of the Russian energy sector, fearing a sharp rise in global oil prices and the cost

Maduro’s inauguration seals an election outcome that opposition politicians and the US government say was stolen.

The US on Friday announced it was raising a bounty on President Nicolas Maduro to $25 million, as the Venezuelan leader was sworn in for a third term in office. Also named in the sanctions announced by the Treasury Department are eight Venezuelan officials who lead “key economic and security agencies enabling Nicolas Maduro’s repression and subversion of democracy in Venezuela”.