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China has installed rocket launchers on a disputed reef in the South China Sea to ward off Vietnamese military combat divers, according to a state-run newspaper, offering new details on China's ongoing military build-up. Still image from a United States Navy video purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands BEIJING: China has installed rocket launchers on a disputed reef in the South China Sea to ward off Vietnamese military combat divers, according to a state-run newspaper, offering new details on China's ongoing military build-up.
Pfc. Chelsea Manning, who was known as Bradley Manning before transitioning in prison, was convicted in 2013 of 20 counts, including six Espionage Act violations, theft and computer fraud. She was acquitted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy.
Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, is due to be released from a Kansas military prison on Wednesday after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence. President Barack Obama granted Manning clemency in his final days in office in January.
Sailors march to man the rails on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan as the ship left Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan left port in Japan Tuesday to resume patrols and eventually relieve the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, which was sent to the region amid rising tensions over North Korea's missile tests, according to the Navy.
One of the chief organizers of the 2017 N.C. Potato Festival is anticipating crowds of up to 40,000 for the approximately three-day event this coming weekend. "We'll be ready to go on Friday ... we're almost there," Elizabeth City Downtown Development Inc. Director Deborah Malenfant said Monday afternoon.
New U.S. Coast Guard statistics illustrate the dramatic drop in the number of Cuban migrants trying to reach U.S. shores by sea since President Barack Obama ended "wet foot, dry foot" in January. Coast Guard data released Monday says U.S. authorities caught more than 1,000 Cuban migrants at sea in April and May of 2016.
Victor was born and raised in Shrewsbury, son of the late Vito and Antoinetta Zona. He graduated in 1943 from Shrewsbury High School, where he was captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams.
Environmentalists are calling for better protections around waterfront electrical substations in the wake of a "catastrophic" transformer failure at a Con Edison's DUMBO location that likely leached thousands of gallons of mineral oil into the East River. While the Sunday afternoon transformer failure occurred on land, the oil swiftly flowed across the porous ground into the river nearby, said John Lipscomb, a clean water advocate with Riverkeeper, who has been keeping tabs on cleanup efforts from the U.S. Coast Guard, the State's Department of Environmental Conservation and the public utility.
Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen congratulating US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John M Richardson after the Meritorious Service Medal Investiture at Changi Naval Base. SINGAPORE: The United States' Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral John M Richardson received a prestigious military award from Singapore on Monday , for his contributions in promoting ties between the navies of both countries.
Trump is traveling to Lynchburg, Va., to give the commence ad... . President Donald Trump gestures after speaking to members of the media aboard Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, May 13, 2017.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we can make a fast decision" on a new FBI director, possibly by late next week, before he leaves on his first foreign trip since taking office. WASHINGTON - Eight candidates for FBI director were interviewed at Justice Department headquarters Saturday as President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace ousted Director James Comey could be announced within days.
REDONDO BEACH >> The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search operation Saturday after receiving reports that an aircraft had possibly gone down in the Pacific Ocean near Redondo Beach, authorities said. Coast Guard officials based in the USCG's Los Angeles-Long Beach Sector received a distress call from an aircraft's emergency location transmitter beacon about 11:45 a.m., USCG officials said in a written statement.
Pope Francis is urging Catholics to "tear down all walls" and go to the peripheries to spread peace and justice. Francis made the appeal Friday as he arrived at the Portuguese shrine in Fatima, one of the most important Catholic sanctuaries in the world.
Editor's note:a SOver the next several days, we will feature stories on graduating seniors from each of the high schools in Walker County. Today, we feature Cordova High senior Jacob Edwards.
A Colombian and two Ecuadoreans have appeared in Miami federal court accused of conspiring to transport cocaine on a boat intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Galapagos Islands in South America. It's only the latest of many similar cases involving boats intercepted at sea, far from Miami, whose crew members are then brought here for trial.
A decommissioned Coast Guard cutter famous for its service in World War II and 1991's deadly "Perfect Storm" off the coast of Massachusetts was laid to rest on Wednesday as it joined the cadre of sunken ships that comprise the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef below the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. environmental regulators have cleared the path for a stalled copper and gold mine in Alaska by agreeing to settle current lawsuits and other issues over the project, which had drawn environmental concerns over its potential impact on the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in a statement on Friday, said the settlement does not guarantee the proposed mining project in southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region would ultimately win approval but that its review would now be carried out "in a fair, transparent, deliberate, and regular way."
US President Donald Trump thinks the F-35 fighter is "pretty cool," but he seems to be a bit confused over what the newest US warplanes have been up to in Japan. In a White House interview with Time magazine published Thursday, Trump said almost three dozen of the stealth jets flew over Japan undetected during a visit to Tokyo by US Defense Secretary James Mattis in February.
Joint Region Marianas Chief of Staff Capt. Jeff Grimes announced Friday that joint exercises involving the U.S., U.K., France and Japan at the U.S. Pacific ... .
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