The U.S. closed the Chinese consulate in Houston and ordered China to remove the researchers after finding what officials say was an intelligence-gathering operation aided by diplomats to collect cutting-edge scientific research from American universities.283
China’s top diplomat began a weeklong tour of Europe seeking to counter growing wariness of Beijing’s increasingly assertive foreign policy amid the coronavirus pandemic and worsening relations between Beijing and Washington.
An international meeting of Biogen managers last February likely helped spread Covid-19 far beyond Massachusetts to thousands of people in other states and overseas, a new genetic analysis found.
The Kremlin said it had no involvement in the sudden illness of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and questioned the assertion this week by German doctors that he was poisoned, pushing back against demands from Western leaders for an inquiry.
The U.N. Security Council won’t act on a U.S. bid to reimpose multilateral sanctions against Iran, after its members decided the U.S. lacks standing to do so after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
Mexico’s government is working with private broadcasters to deliver televised classes to 30 million public-school students, many of whom lack internet access.19
