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 […]
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 […]
BANGKOK— The flight data recorder of AirAsia Flight 8501 has been retrieved from the Java Sea. Authorities said the cockpit voice recorder from the passenger jet that crashed on December 28 has also been located. Navy divers on Monday brought to the surface the flight data recorder of the Indonesia AirAsia flight, two weeks after […]