U.S.-IRAN WAR WIDENS: SEAFARER DEATHS AT HORMUZ, THE BLOCKADE REIMPOSED, AND A THREAT THAT POINTS TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON
The war over the Strait of Hormuz claimed the lives of commercial seafarers Tuesday, as the United States launched its fifth wave of strikes on Iran in a week and moved to reimpose a full naval blockade of Iranian ports at 4:00 p.m. ET today—an act of war in itself. The UAE said Iranian cruise […]
BEIJING PUSHES BACK ON ANTI-INDIA XENOPHOBIA
As China and India rebuild ties after years of estrangement, Chinese officialdom has moved to tamp down a nationalist online backlash against the reopening. A July 2 commentary in the state outlet The Paper (澎湃新闻)—written under “Xin Ping”—a collective byline used for pieces reflecting official positions, and republished in full on the Chinese Embassy in […]
THE ARROW THAT POINTS UP
On July 14 at Baikonur, the heads of the American and Russian space agencies stood side by side—the first such meeting on that soil in nearly eight years—and launched a crew, two Russians and an American, toward the one outpost where their nations have never stopped cooperating. That same morning in the Strait of Hormuz, […]
FIRST DAY OF VATICAN AI CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS
The 200-person gathering of Nobel Prize winners and other notables at Castel Gandolfo began with a presentation of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas by Cardinal Angel Fernández Artime, the Pro-prefect for the Dicastery for Institutes of the Consecrated Life. This was followed by a presentation by Cardinal Fabio Baggio. “We gather at a moment in history,” […]