China on Friday ordered the closure of the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu in retaliation for America shuttering Beijing’s diplomatic mission in Houston this week. The move was a “legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable measures by the United States”, the foreign ministry said in a ...
Iran has contacted the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which protects American interests in the Islamic Republic, to warn that the US would be held accountable if anything happened to a Beirut-bound Iranian passenger airplane. In a statement on Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Iran’s mission to the ...