Headlines- The IRGC launched ballistic missiles at two US warships "patrolling regional waters," according to US Central Command, which then launched an attack on Iranian oil vessels.
- The US attacks on three oil tankers were denounced by Iran's Foreign Ministry as a "war crime," and the Iranian military threatened to launch further strikes on US naval vessels if the blockade persisted.
- On Saturday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
- As part of an anti-immigrant protest, hundreds of masked people halted ferry traffic between France and the UK on Saturday at the port of Dover, England.
- Ten days after the catastrophic floods near the border between Nepal and Tibet, a man and a woman found alive, according to officials.
Tag: Chinese Ambassador
March 21, 2020
Coronavirus: Chinese Ambassador Has No Lessons...
In a series of recent media interventions, the Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye virulently attacks “a certain French press” which he accuses of sullying the image of his country by uttering “lies” on its role in the current coronavirus pandemic. These media, which the diplomat never names, but which seem to represent for him the French press as a whole, would have “made fun of China ” in defiance ” of all ethics and the most basic good faith “, in a state of ‘spirit which according to him ‘ borders on paranoia .”