Iran launched underground ballistic missiles Wednesday as part of an exercise involving a mock-up American aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz
China ordered the U.S. to close its consulate in Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades
The hospitalization of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has sparked new rumours on the ascent to the throne of his son the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who will inherit a country full of questions about its future
The United States ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, escalating tensions between the world’s largest economies
Brazil has recorded more than 80,000 confirmed deaths and 2 million cases of coronavirus—second in the world behind the United States
Their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot
The United States and its allies took a new step towards a dangerous showdown with China rejecting its “maritime empire” behaviour, as well as its alleged attempts “to alter the status quo” in the South China Sea and the East China Sea
Britain backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a role in the U.K.’s new high-speed mobile phone network
The president of Turkey formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship
Global infections from the novel coronavirus have topped twelve million as the rate of new cases surges, particularly in the United States and Latin America