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  • In order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said late Monday that it was striking Iran for the tenth night in a row.
  • After their announcement of a naval blockade in the southern part of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia denounced the Houthis in Yemen, who are supported by Iran.
  • According to Jordan's state television, the Jordanian Armed Forces said that three missiles launched from Iran had been intercepted.
  • After the deaths of three American service personnel this past weekend, US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Monday that they "will pay" every time they kill Americans.
  • Multiple Iranian airstrikes on Middle East bases this month have injured nearly 100 US service men.
  • In the latest round of Iranian retaliatory attacks on the Gulf state allied with the United States, the Kuwaiti army said it is working to intercept Iranian missiles and drones.

Tag: Shanghai

July 18, 2026

UN Secretary-General Addresses World Artificial Intelligence...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening session of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Meteorological Forum.

September 8, 2024

Back in Business:Bookstore Forced to Close...

Jifeng Bookstore reopened in Washington to reach a new audience by bringing literature and debate to the city six years after it was forced to close its doors in Shanghai.

March 23, 2023

Shanghai Court Jails Blogger for Seven...

A court in Shanghai has handed a seven-year jail term to the author of a programming and politics blog who evaded government detection for around 12 years after finding him guilty of “incitement to subvert state power,” Radio Free Asia has learned.

December 2, 2022

Prominent Shanghai Housing Rights Advocate Given...

A court in Shanghai has secretly sentenced Shanghai-based housing activist Chen Jianfang to four-and-a-half years in jail, RFA has learned

September 3, 2022

Shanghai Police Detain Zero-COVID Critic Who...

Shanghai police have detained a prominent rights activist who called on a local official to resign over the citywide COVID-19 lockdown in April.

May 31, 2022

China’s ‘White Guards’ Gain Reputation For...

Police officers, neighborhood committee members and community volunteers dressed in head-to-toe white PPE have been a ubiquitous feature of China’s zero-COVID policy, often shown on social media video uploads surrounding people, beating and dragging them away, or knocking on their door to put pressure on them to submit to a PCR test, to leave home for an isolation camp

May 28, 2022

Interview: ‘It Was Hard to Breathe,Let...

A Shanghai resident who gave only the surname Cao recently spoke to RFA’s Mandarin Service about her experiences under weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, during which the city’s 26 million residents submitted on a daily basis to confinement at home

April 22, 2022

Mystery Fences Spring Up Blocking Shanghai...

Mysterious fences have begun appearing overnight blocking city thoroughfares in Shanghai amid a grueling COVID-19 lockdown affecting some 26 million people, residents told RFA

April 21, 2022

Chinese Police Order Residents to Hand...

Police in the central Chinese province of Hunan have ordered local residents to hand over their passports to police, promising to return them “when the pandemic is over,” amid a massive surge in people looking for ways to leave China or obtain overseas immigration status

April 19, 2022

Foreign Students ‘Taken From Shanghai’ as...

The Shanghai lockdown has prompted an exodus of foreign students and teaching staff, as the city reported its first deaths from COVID-19

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