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William Majcher, a retired Canadian police officer, has been acquitted of national security charges related to allegations of acting as an agent for China. Prosecutors were unable to prove that he illegally assisted Chinese police in coercing a Vancouver-area real estate investor to return to China. The charges stemmed from claims that he breached Canada’s Security of Information Act.
A series of Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv resulted in at least eight fatalities, including a 12-year-old girl, and left many others injured. Rescue operations are ongoing at a partially destroyed apartment building, where at least 20 individuals are feared missing. The attacks, which
California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized recent Republican redistricting efforts, labeling them as 'stone-cold racism.' This statement comes in response to Louisiana's approval of a plan that would eliminate a majority-Black congressional district, raising concerns about the implications for voting rights and representation.
Maya Wang, the deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said: “President Trump has been pretty hostile to the concept [of human rights] … it would be hard to imagine in a Trump-Xi meeting that human rights would figure meaningfully if at all in their discussions.” Xi and Trump are meeting in Beijing for a momentous summit that will pack negotiations on. Chinese president’s comments published after two-hour meeting with US president during Beijing summit China’s president, Xi Jinping, has warned of “clashes and even conflicts” with the US over Taiwan after meeting Donald Trump in Beijing.
The leaders of the world's two superpowers were all smiles for the cameras during the US president's visit to Beijing.
All 11 onboard survived after the plane made an emergency landing near the Bahamas A military rescue crew in Florida has spoken of the “pretty miraculous” survival of all 11 people it saved from a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean, and its own scramble to safety with five minutes of fuel left. “And from what I’ve seen, for all those people to survive is pretty miraculous, and then get in the raft all together.” Over almost an hour and a half, using a winch and basket, the helicopter crew made nine lifts in choppy seas to get all the survivors onboard, then fly them to waiting ambulances at.