As Beijing helps revamp the Iranian capital’s metro system, a bigger picture of counter-hegemony takes shape Last week, Masoud Dorosti, the managing director of Tehran’s bustling metro system, dropped a bombshell: After seven years of intense negotiations, the Iranian capital is gearing up to welcome a whopping 791 sleek metro trains from China. It’s a…

The Taiwanese defense chief has confirmed US troops are training the island’s army, with some stationed six miles from mainland China US special forces personnel are stationed on some of Taiwan’s outlying islands training its armed forces, the island’s defense authority chief Chiu Kuo-cheng confirmed to the press on Thursday.

Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has expressed “concern” over attempted bombing of the Zaporozhye facility The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said all sides are responsible for maintaining security at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, after staff at the Russian facility accused Ukrainian forces of dropping a bomb near fuel tanks containing diesel for…