By Agence France-Presse A former high-level Chinese government employee has been sentenced to death for leaking state secrets to a foreign power, Beijing’s spy agency said Wednesday. The individual surnamed Zhang “provided a large number of top secret and classified state secrets to foreign intelligence agencies,” the Ministry of State Security said in a post […]
By Agence France-Presse Taiwan has received its first batch of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) from the United States, Taipei’s defense ministry said Wednesday, as the island races to boost its defenses against a potential Chinese attack. Washington has long been Taipei’s most important ally and biggest arms supplier — angering Beijing, which claims […]
By Agence France-Presse Letur (Espagne) (AFP) – Divers plunged into the river while high-mountain police hot-footed through the rubble in a rush to find five residents of the hamlet of Letur missing after Spain’s apocalyptic floods. Since the floods ravaged the southeastern Spanish village on Tuesday evening, the Castilla-La Mancha region’s rescuers have been working […]