President Donald Trump has ramped up US air strikes on Iran and threatened broader escalation, but there is little sign that a military strategy that has already failed to extract concessions from Tehran will succeed this time.
With the collapse of an interim ceasefire deal reached a month ago, Trump finds himself in a bind as he seeks to break Iran’s grip on the vital Strait of Hormuz and force Tehran to accept his demands.
While the two sides have so far avoided a return to full-scale conflict, hopes
A man in central China who had his nose bitten off while subduing an attacker to save a woman has been recognised as a national hero.
Zeng Fanlin, 69, from Chenzhou, Hunan province, previously served as a village official before becoming a volunteer mediator who helped resolve disputes among villagers.
The incident happened in April, when a man in his 20s entered the village and went on a violent rampage, attacking passers-by and kicking doors, according to local media reports.
The attacker later stopped a
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The United States struck Iran and Tehran attacked US allies in the Gulf on Thursday as the foes battled over the vital Strait of Hormuz in the renewed Middle East war.
The rekindled fighting came a month after the signing of a preliminary deal that aimed to end the conflict, which broke out in late February with massive US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it was conducting a new wave of strikes on Thursday evening
Researchers use China’s Tianzhou spacecraft missions since 2017 to study how microgravity and space radiation can affect biology
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As a team of Chinese scientists has discovered – the outlook is not very positive.
The researchers used two of China’s Tianzhou cargo spacecraft missions to culture and study the
Mandatory evacuations across the Texas Hill Country are under way as life-threatening flash floods wreck bridges and roads with more heavy rain expected overnight.
A wide swathe of Texas is forecast to receive as much as 20cm (eight inches) of additional precipitation through Friday morning to cap off a week of downpours that revived memories of the catastrophic deluge that killed more than 130 people a year ago.
Evacuations have been complicated by almost 90 road and highway closures between San Antonio and the border town of Del Rio
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng expects to produce more than 1,000 humanoid robots a month by the end of 2026 as it competes with Tesla in a high-stakes race to dominate physical AI, the integration of intelligent software into robotics and machinery.
The Guangzhou-based carmaker told the South China Morning Post in a statement on Thursday that its manufacturing capacity would pave the way for the global launch of Iron, its
Agreeing to Kyiv’s co-production proposal risks triggering a backlash from Beijing and Moscow, analysts say
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Such a move is unlikely because it would require Japan to cross a sensitive line on exports of lethal weapons and complicate