The US media-intel nexus is pushing an “intelligent leak” purportedly to keep American troops in Afghanistan even after about 20 years of war in the country.

An Indian parliamentary committee grills a top Facebook executive in the country, amid raging controversy over the social media giant’s alleged bias and inaction on anti-Muslim posts on its platform.

A clandestine Saudi nuclear programme has been confirmed by satellite images showing a checkpoint, towering security fences, a big building about 150 feet on a side and pools for the collection of uranium waste; a typical blueprint for yellow-cake mills.

The US has threatened to impose sanctions against the tankers carrying Iranian gasoline to fuel-starved Venezuela, a Wall Street Journal report says.

The Trump administration may expel Chinese journalists in retaliation for the expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters.

The Wall Street Journal has “stooped to a new low” by publishing an editorial calling China the “Sick Man of Asia” as the country is valiantly fighting coronavirus, says Dennis Etler.

China expels three Wall Street Journal reporters over a racist editorial, calling the country “the Real Sick Man of Asia.”

A report shows Saudis are looking for oil imports from Iraq amid disruptions caused to production.

The US has recently arranged secret talks between Israeli and Emirati officials to coordinate their anti-Iran efforts, a US report says.

Wall Street stocks were back in sell-off mode early Wednesday as weak economic data from China and Germany and a key US Treasury benchmark exacerbated global recession fears.