After a summit between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ended with no public statement on Taiwan, Trump has now said Xi 'understands' his position on the island, without saying what that position is.
Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route, a week after any deal, but Trump rejected it.
This week officials in Iran, India, France and Sweden all used the word "deterrence," but meant different things by it: Iran praised conscripts, India used new doctrinal terms, France restated its pledge to defend Poland with nuclear weapons, and Sweden published a public guide to nuclear weapons.
US sanctions on Iran's airlines have grounded flights carrying Shia pilgrims from Iran to holy cities in Iraq.
US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway Gulf oil exporters use to ship crude to world markets.
Trump and Xi finished a Washington summit with a two-month pause on tariffs and a formal dinner, but did not say publicly whether they discussed Taiwan, the self-governing island China claims as its own.
This week three separate groups reacted to attacks on merchant ships and their crews.
Britain's foreign secretary told Iran's government this week that the UK will not accept hostile activity against British Jews on British soil, warning about threats from Iranian-linked groups.
US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Washington and agreed to pause their tariff war for two months, celebrating with a White House state dinner and warm public toasts.
Russian missiles and drones killed two people in Kyiv, and NATO — the military alliance of the US and European countries — scrambled fighter jets over Poland and Romania in response.
For months, officials described suspicious fires, drones and outages as vaguely "hybrid" without saying who was responsible.
A drone spotted over Berlin's main airport, BER, forced air traffic controllers to halt all flights before reopening the airspace.