Trump administration praises UK sanctions on human rights abusers

The Trump administration issued a statement Sunday praising a set of sanctions imposed against suspected human rights abusers by the British government on Monday, and lauded the U.K.’s “global leadership on the promotion and protection of human rights.”Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the sanctions imposed Monday under the a 2018 law against money laundering “marks the beginning of a new era for UK sanctions policy and cooperation”…