Singapore’s defense minister says a Singaporean navy ship has located the fuselage of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the Java Sea last month. Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said in a Facebook post Wednesday that a remotely operated vehicle being used in the search took images showing part of the plane’s wing and words […]
SEOUL—Relations between Washington and Pyongyang have grown more contentious in the wake of the alleged North Korea cyberattack on the Sony Pictures movie studio. The U.S. was quick to reject a North Korean proposal to reduce regional tensions and is instead focused on pressuring and isolating the regime. North Korea is already under U.N. sanctions […]
Charges of murder have been leveled at two New Mexico police officers, Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez, that shot and killed a homeless man with a history of mental illness who was camping illegally in the foothills near Albuquerque in March of last year. 38-year-old James Boyd was shot and killed after officers contacted him […]
WASHINGTON—Dozens of governments around the world, most notably in majority-Muslim nations, are turning to anti-blasphemy laws to aggressively punish alleged transgressions, especially against Islam. And while in the past blasphemy charges were most often brought against people for something they said in public, these days governments are turning their attention to what people say and […]