Florida Seeks NY Times Internal Documents Over Errors In Israel-Hamas War Coverage

China Dismisses Report Of Top Chipmaker Aiding Iranian Forces As "Fake News" Beijing moved into damage-control mode on Friday, with its foreign ministry dismissing a Reuters report that cited two senior Trump administration officials alleging that SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, had sent chipmaking tools to Iran, as "false information." Asked about the report at a regular news conference in Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said he was "not familiar with the situation" and added, "What I can tell you is that recently, some media have been keen on releasing...

Iran on Tuesday appointed a former high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander as the new secretary of its Supreme National Security Council (SNRC) after Israel killed Ali Larijani, the country’s previous national security chief. According to Iran’s PressTV, Larijani’s replacement, Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, served in the IRGC during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, […]

Private Sector Struggles In Major Chinese Industrial Base As Export Orders Shrink: Local Businessmen Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amid China’s persistently sluggish economy, Zhejiang Province, a major production and industrial base in eastern China, is seeing a decline in trade orders as private enterprises struggle to stay afloat, according to industry professionals who spoke with The Epoch Times. Workers load goods for export into a container at a logistics hub in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China, on April 29, 2025. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images As the “hollowing out” of...