A prominent Chinese-born academic and author who feigned being a pro-democracy activist was convicted on Tuesday of acting as a covert Chinese agent, the Justice Department said. After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of four counts of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government. He will […]
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US transportation officials on Tuesday began a two-day hearing into a near-catastrophic January incident on a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines that required an emergency landing. The National Transportation Safety Board aims to pinpoint what went wrong and craft recommendations after a fuselage panel known as a door-plug suddenly came off mid-flight. Video […]
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Russian troops have captured the village of Tymofiyivka in eastern Ukraine in the latest in a series of recent advances, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. Russian units “have liberated the settlement of Timofeevka,” it said on social media, using the Russian name for the village.
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Global markets were a sea of red Monday, with Japan’s Nikkei suffering an historic drop and New York falling hard in a pullback attributed to economic unease and fallout from recent monetary policy shifts. Following a decisive down day in Europe, all three major US indices spent the entire day in the red, with the […]
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