US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, according to three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments. It would be a provocative move considering Beijing said it helped broker the fragile ceasefire agreement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah “in principle” during a security consultation with Israeli officials Sunday night, CNN reports citing a source familiar with the matter. Israel still has reservations over some details of the

Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ election night watch party at Howard University in Washington, DC, she will spend her day mobilising swing state voters through radio interviews before she attends a family dinner — which she called a tradition. “I will be at my alma mater,

When Jocelyn Zelaya was caught in a hail of gunfire on the streets of San Salvador in 2017, the young mother was simply “in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” says her aunt Jackelyne. A group of gunmen armed with automatic weapons had opened fire to assassinate a member of a riv

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to ask Congress to lend more money to developing countries to counter China’s growing influence, according to a copy of her prepared remarks viewed by CNN. In addition to increasing lending to other International Monetary Fund programmes, Yellen inte

Israel bombed the house of Hamas' Gaza leader and obliterated a family's home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 rockets towards Israel on Sunday, marking the deadliest day of the week-long conflict so far, according to data from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and Israeli authorities.

As India's coronavirus catastrophe worsens, new waves of infections are fast engulfing a growing number of nations across South and Southeast Asia -- with some grappling with their worst outbreaks since the pandemic began. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that India had acco

A dozen armed recruits crawl along a dusty pathway, the cicadas masking any sound of their approach towards their target, a small village in the jungles of Myanmar. The ambush scenario is fabricated but the threat they are training for is real: a military junta that seized power in a coup on Febru