But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and humiliation that united the deeply divided Japanese government.

The state of the struggling Syrian telecoms sector is largely attributed to the US embargo on the country and corruption within the Syrian telecom bodies.

The biology faculty of the University of Havana was prevented from obtaining from the companies Sigma and Clontec a set of reagents for extracting DNA and RNA from biological samples, which are of use in studies with applications in biotechnology. Although the financing for the acquisition originated in a Swedish funded project, the supplier refused to make the sale on the grounds of the embargo.