Taiwan’s coast guard blasted a Chinese fishing vessel with a water cannon after it entered restricted waters and refused repeated orders to leave. The dramatic encounter offers a glimpse of the growing confrontations at sea as Beijing ramps up pressure around the self-governing island. CNN’s Will Ripley reports.
Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, sharing new details about the terrifying moments in the cockpit attack.
The FBI on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family, federal officials said. She is expected to be in federal court in Los Angeles today.
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed. The source familiar called the latest threat a “real world incident.” It is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region, the official said. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from London. Also, CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton and CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas break down the impact on US military readiness as the conflict…
The White House is closely monitoring a possible plague outbreak in Russia and is reportedly weighing what, if anything, the United States should do in response.