The reported break in communications comes amid large-scale military drills around Taiwan As China continues its snap military drills around Taiwan in retaliation to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to the island this week, top Chinese military officials are refusing to return calls from their counterparts at the Pentagon, according to Politico.

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The IDF has claimed that its troops only opened fire to protect themselves from the hungry crowd Most of the Palestinians killed when troops opened fire at a crowd massed near an aid convoy in Gaza died as a result of a stampede – not from gunshots, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has claimed.