President Joe Biden last week extended for one year beyond Aug. 1 a national emergency that authorizes certain sanctions against people who undermine Lebanon’s government or contribute to the “deliberate breakdown in the rule of law” in Lebanon, the White House said. Certain “ongoing activities,” including Iran’s “continuing arms transfers” to Hezbollah, “serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty” and contribute to political and economic instability in the region, the White House said.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control on July 29 sanctioned two people and four organizations for supporting Russia's "global malign influence operations and election interference activities." The sanctions target Natalya Valeryevna Burlinova, founder and president of an entity that relies on state funding and has ties to Russian intelligence services. The agency also designated Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) "co-optee," who has worked to "promulgate the Kremlin’s disinformation and malign influence agenda," OFAC said. Also sanctioned are the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, Ionov Transkontinental, STOP-Imperialism and the Center for Support and Development of Public Initiative Creative Diplomacy.

The U.N. Security Council this week amended 44 entries on its sanctions list related to North Korea. The changes update identifying information for the entries.

President Joe Biden last week extended for one year beyond July 26 a national emergency that authorizes certain sanctions against Mali, the White House said. Mali continues to pose an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy" of the U.S., the White House said.

The State Department on July 22 designated Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, the former president of Paraguay, for “significant corruption." Also designated are his adult children: Juan Pablo Cartes Montana, Sofia Cartes Montana and Maria Sol Cartes Montana.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control on July 22 updated a Russia-related entry on the Specially Designated Nationals List. The entry is for Joint Stock Company North Western Regional Center of Almaz Antey Concern Obukhovsky Plant. The agency didn't immediately provide more information.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control on July 22 issued two new Russia-related general licenses.

As part of its seventh sanctions package on Russia, the European Council added 48 individuals and nine entities to its sanctions list, including Russia's largest bank Sberbank and high-ranking members of the political class, Russian military and cultural establishment. The newly listed entities are Avlita Stevedoring; Nightwolves MC, a nationalist motorcycle club; Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund; Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent State Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation; Russkiy Mir Foundation; JSC Research and Production Assocation "Kvant"; Sberbank; Forss Group; and All-Russia "Young Army" Military Patriotic Social Movement.

President Joe Biden this week extended for one year beyond July 24 a national emergency that authorizes certain sanctions against transnational criminal organizations, the White House said. The groups continue to “pose a direct threat to the safety and welfare of the United States and its citizens,” the White House said July 21.

The U.K. imposed new sanctions on Russia, the Export Control Joint Unit announced in a July 21 notice. The restrictions include a ban the import, acquisition and supply or delivery of oil and oil products and coal and coal products. The coal ban comes into force Aug. 10; the oil ban, on Dec. 31. The new measures also prohibit exports of items listed on the G-7 Dependency and Further Goods List to, or for use in, Russia, along with bans on the supply of these items from a third country to Russia. The restrictions also expand bans on the export or supply of energy-related goods, and ban the import of gold from Russia.