In his trip to Asia next week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to discuss with Beijing and Tokyo ways they can help degrade and defeat the Islamic State extremists, a senior State Department official said. Blinken, a former deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, is to be received at […]
After being named in a criminal complain by British Airways, one of the heirs to the Hilton hotel fortune, 20-year-old Conrad Hughes Hilton, on Thursday, was arrested by the FBI for interference with flight crew-members and attendants aboard flight 269 from London to LA that took place in July of 2014. In sworn affidavits, FBI agents […]
The death toll from the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan rose to 31 Thursday, as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing. Internet video showed the twin-engine TransAsia plane moments after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan airport on Wednesday, bound for Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands. The plane’s left wing, perpendicular to […]
TAIPEI—Rescue workers in Taiwan have used a crane to lift part of the wreckage of a TransAsia passenger plane that crashed outside of Taipei, killing at least 25 people and leaving nearly 20 others missing in shallow water. Rescuers in boats surrounded the partially submerged, upside-down plane and pulled at least 15 of the passengers […]