Man charged with punching flight attendant in latest string of unruly behaviour in the skies
A California man who was captured on video punching an American Airlines flight attendant during a flight from Mexico to Los Angeles was arrested this week, the Justice Department said,…
South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol caught on hot mic insulting US Congress
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was overheard insulting American lawmakers, after briefly meeting his United States counterpart Joe Biden to discuss issues including US electric-vehicle (EV) subsidies that South Korea…
Thailand bars anti-junta Myanmar model
A Myanmar model and beauty pageant contestant who took refuge in Thailand after speaking out against the military coup in her homeland has been denied entry after a trip abroad…
Kingpin of US Navy scam in Asia caught
The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale transits the Philippine Sea in November 2018. The Navy was bilked out of tens of millions of dollars in inflated maintenance charges in…
Iranian protesters torch police stations as unrest over woman’s death spreads
People attend a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s “morality police”, in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022. Protesters…
American, Russians reach space station as war rages in Ukraine
The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS). A US…
US names three more Chinese companies as threats to national security.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) named Chinese telecoms companies Pacific Networks Corp, its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC and China Unicom (Americas) as threats to US national security, the…
Policeman killed, 4 injured by bomb in South
The road in front of Mai Kaen Hospital in Pattani after a bomb went off, killing one policeman and injuring four, on Tuesday night. One policeman was killed and four…
U.S., Canadian warships transit Taiwan Strait, irritating China
A U.S. Navy warship and a Canadian frigate carried out a routine transit of the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the U.S. military said, an operation which comes amid heightened military…
US sends aircraft carrier to Korean peninsula in apparent show of force aimed at Kim Jong-un
USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and its battle group are to train with South Korea for the first time in five years. The US is sending an aircraft carrier to…