Security

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has died suddenly, ahead of a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, according to the Belarusian news agency, Belta. “Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has passed away suddenly,” Belta wrote without giving further information. The report cited Anatoly Glaz, spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry. …

On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a nondescript man calling himself Dan Cooper approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland, Oregon. He used cash to buy a one-way ticket on Flight #305, bound for Seattle, Washington. Thus began what the FBI came to call the Norjack case. …

More than a dozen explosions shook the area around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Saturday evening and again Sunday morning, the U.N. said. Experts stationed at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported “powerful explosions” overnight on Nov. 19 and on the morning of Nov. 20. The explosions prompted the International …

Reports on social media on Saturday depict a massive explosion and fire erupting at a gas line near St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the latest in a series of events wherein explosions hit Russian sectors. The latest explosion is the result of “a gas pipeline depressurization between Berngardovka and Kovalevo,” Gov. …

The FBI is investigating an unauthorized “police station” that China is operating in New York as part of a global network of such stations, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday, vowing to put a stop to Beijing’s apparently unsanctioned law enforcement activity in the United States. “I’m very concerned about …

One U.S. border agent was killed and four others wounded in a deadly Nov. 17 shootout with drug smugglers off the coast of Puerto Rico. The Thursday morning incident was first reported by Anna Giaritelli of the Washington Examiner. The shootout occurred around 8 a.m. local time, after agents encountered …

The first Chinese intelligence officer extradited to the United States and tried for attempting to steal trade secrets will spend 20 years in prison. Xu Yanjun, a deputy division director at the Chinese Ministry of State Security, was arrested in April 2018 during a visit to Belgium to meet with …

An explosion in eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border was “likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, prompting Ukrainian officials to ask to be part of an additional inquiry. Reports of Russian missiles …

Police in Turkey have arrested a woman suspected of causing a devastating explosion Sunday in Istanbul, officials there said. Although motives remain unclear as of Monday, Ankara accused Syrian Kurdish militants backed by the United States of ordering the attack. “There is much to uncover, but this is a starting …

American forces airdropped a cruise missile from an aircraft for the first time in Europe, as part of a test exercise.  The test occurred inside the Arctic Circle at the remote Andoya Space Defence Range in Norway. It involved a US Air Force MC-130J Hercules Commando aircraft dropping a Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff …