SEOUL – U.S. military officials in South Korea Wednesday confirmed the first infection of a U.S. service member with the new coronavirus. The patient, a 23-year-old male, has been placed in self-quarantine at his off-base residence, U.S. Forces Korea said in a statement. The soldier was stationed at Camp Carroll, a U.S. Army base […]
Vietnam and the U.S. have announced that cooperation on cross-border crime has led to a U.S. grand jury indictment of an American teacher accused of traveling to the Southeast Asian nation to have sex with minors. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California alleged that the teacher, Paul Marshall Bodner, of […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – South Korea confirmed its first death from the new coronavirus, local media reported Thursday, as the number of infections in the country tripled within two days. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement the exact cause of death is being investigated. The report came as […]
2019 saw the biggest increase in global military spending in a decade, according to data published Friday, which also showed the United States ramping up war expenditures under President Donald Trump. The findings are from The Military Balance 2020, the latest annual assessment from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) formally launched at the […]