China achieved its fifth-generation fighter jet by copying U.S. military tech, and it could maintain its pacing challenge for the American military if more isn’t done to safeguard sensitive weapons information, experts tell Fox News Digital. “What we know is that because of the espionage efforts, [China’s] J-20 is more …
Read More »Security forces deploy tear gas, disperse Hamas militant’s West Bank funeral
Palestinian security forces on Wednesday fired tear gas canisters and flash grenades at angry Palestinian protesters during a funeral for a militant in the occupied West Bank. It was a rare encounter that highlighted deep public dissatisfaction with the Palestinian self-rule government. Palestinians gathered in the northern West Bank city …
Read More »Estonian PM, majority party start coalition talks
Estonia’s center-right Reform Party started talks with two smaller parties Wednesday about forming a new liberal-minded coalition government. The party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas won the Baltic nation’s general election on Sunday with 31.2% of the vote. Kallas hosted a meeting of delegates from the Reform Party, the centrist …
Read More »Aid group briefly shuts down hospital in Haiti amid spike in gang violence
Doctors Without Borders announced Wednesday that it was forced to temporarily close its hospital in Cite Soleil given a sharp rise in gang violence that has left dozens dead in recent weeks. The slum — one of the largest in the capital of Port-au-Prince — has been the site of …
Read More »Egyptian authorities detain engineer over deadly train crash
Egyptian prosecutors Wednesday ordered the detention of an engineer pending an investigation into a train crash a day earlier that killed four people near Cairo. The passenger train slammed into a concrete barrier at a station in Qalyub city while traveling Tuesday to the Nile Delta city of Menouf, prosecutors …
Read More »10 armed gunmen attempt $32M heist at Chile airport, leaving 2 dead
An airport shootout in Chile’s capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber Wednesday in what authorities said was an attempted heist of more than $32 million in cash aboard a plane from Miami. Around 10 heavily armed robbers were able to skirt security measures to reach the runway …
Read More »Georgian police disperse crowd protesting foreign agent law by using water cannon, tear-gas
Police in the capital of Georgia used water cannon and tear-gas late Wednesday to disperse demonstrators around the parliament building protesting a draft law that they say could stifle media freedom and civil society. Lawmakers on Tuesday approved the first reading of the proposed law, which would require media and …
Read More »Turkish police tear gas protestors of Women’s Day march ban
Women in Turkey braved an official ban on an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul, demonstrating for about two hours before police used tear gas to disperse remaining protesters and detained several people. Thousands converged on a central neighborhood Wednesday for a protest that combined women’s rights with the staggering …
Read More »Brazil’s Lula uses Women’s Day to tout new spending plans
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced measures Wednesday seeking to promote and protect women after years of setbacks in their causes blamed in part on a rise in far-right forces. At a ceremony in the capital, Brasilia, Lula presented a package of over 25 measures, the most significant …
Read More »US issues ‘do not travel’ warning for parts of Mexico as spring break approaches
The U.S. State Department reminded travelers to avoid going to parts of Mexico as four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros last week – two of whom were killed while the other two returned to the U.S. on Tuesday. The reminder came just days before college students head off to tropical …
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