In 1978, I visited my first war zone, Beirut. There were, in fact, several wars going on. The Israelis had made an incursion in the south, but there was chaos everywhere, with various local militias squaring off in the streets. Two of them had battl

WASHINGTON: China sought to cover up the sinking of its newest nuclear-powered submarineatinbet, a senior US defence official said on Thursday (Sep 26). The sinking at a shipyard earlier this year was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which