This is the current status with start 1st August:
Japan: 25 percent, South Korea: 25 percent, Malaysia: 25 percent, Kazakhstan: 25 percent, South Africa: 30 percent, 40 percent, Myanmar: 40 percent, Tunisia: 25 percent, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 32 percent, Bangladesh: 35 percent, Serbia: 35 percent, Cambodia: 36 percent, Libya: 30 Percent, Iraq: 30 percent, Algeria: 30 percent, Moldova: 25 percent, Philippines: 20 percent, Brunei: 25 percent.
According to the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, the US Senate could soon impose new sanctions against Russia. “We are on the way,” said Graham, who had already brought the corresponding draft law into the parliamentary chamber in April, the magazine “Politico”. US President Donald Trump told him that it was time, “so let’s go on it now,” said Graham.
According to Graham, his sanction package has a clear majority in the Senate. After the first announcement of the package, Graham had stated that the planned sanctions would “break the backbone of Russia’s economy”. Among other things, the draft provides for punitive tariffs of 500 percent on imports from countries that continue to obtain Russian oil and gas. So far, however, there has been no vote because it was feared that Trump could possibly stop the process via veto.
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Recently, however, Trump had become increasingly frustrated by Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities. “We get a lot of nonsense from Putin,” said Trump in the White House on Tuesday. “He is very nice all the time, but it turns out that it is meaningless.” Already on Monday (local time) Trump had spoken out against Ukraine for a quick end of the Russian war of aggression and emphasized that he was not happy with Putin at all.
According to information from “FOX News”, the FBI has included criminal investigations against former CIA director John Brennan and ex-FBI boss James Comey. The investigation is therefore related to possible misconduct in the course of previous studies on the alleged Russian influence on the US presidential election in 2016. However, the exact scope of the investigation is unclear, the report. The then CIA director John Ratcliffe, appointed by Donald Trump, also referred Brennan to the Ministry of Justice for criminal law.
The information agency Reuters has so far not been able to verify the information from “Fox News” independently. The FBI rejected a statement. The Ministry of Justice and the CIA did not want to comment at first. Neither Brennan nor Comey has reacted to inquiries from journalists. An investigation does not necessarily mean later charges.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump was upset by the Russian President Vladimir Putin and accused him of adding up “a lot of nonsense”. Before that, he had spoken out again for a quick end of the Russian war of attack against Ukraine and emphasized that he was not happy with Putin at all. Therefore, the United States would send some defense weapons to Ukraine – he had approved it. Last week it was said that the United States stopped the delivery of some of the weapons that have already been promised – including anti -aircraft missiles.
According to a media report, the US President is considering sending Ukraine an additional Patriot air defense system in view of the massive Russian attacks. This reported the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ), citing two civil servants. Accordingly, the White House asked the Pentagon for the delivery for the delivery of additional weapons, including a patriot system. It would be the first time that Trump approved the delivery of a larger weapon system to Kiev, which goes beyond the number approved by the government of its predecessor Joe Biden.
In Washington, US President Donald Trump and Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu have come together for a conversation within 24 hours. At the meeting in the White House on Tuesday evening (local time), according to Trump, it should be “almost exclusively” about the situation in the Gaza Strip with the aim of ending the “tragedy” there.
“It is a tragedy and he wants to solve it and I want to solve it, and I think the other side wants that too,” Trump said before Netanyahus’s arrival. Netanyahu in turn answered the question of whether an agreement for an ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip was imminent with the words: “We definitely work on it.”
On the table is a proposal by the international broker for a 60-day break. Trump’s special representative Steve Witkoff said he hoped for an agreement within a few days. “We are confident that we will achieve an agreement by the end of this week that will lead us to a 60-day ceasefire,” said Witkoff. The proposal would include the return of ten living hostages to Israel and the return of nine dead hostages, added Witkoff.
