A pair of environmental scientists testified in Hawaii federal court Tuesday that more than 2,000 gallons of jet fuel from a spill at a Navy fuel facility in late 2021 made its way into drinking water used by more than 90,000 residents living near Pearl Harbor.
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of Beijing’s continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus.
The House select committee on U.S.-China competition, freshly under new leadership, is training its sights on a range of tech, defense, economic and foreign policy issues.
Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, causing minor damage to one vessel, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict.
An explosion in Cambodia that killed 20 soldiers at an army base appears to have been an accident caused by mishandling of ammunition by troops, a senior military official said.
The Philippines took delivery of a Japanese-made mobile air-surveillance radar this week amid ongoing tensions with China over contested territory in the South China Sea.
Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano erupted Tuesday for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris.
Jet fuel contamination of the Navy’s Pearl Harbor drinking water system in late 2021 was too minute and too short-lived to have caused long-lasting medical problems by those exposed to it, an attorney for the U.S. government said in Hawaii federal court.
China claims neutrality in the Ukraine conflict, but Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared their governments had a “no limits friendship” before Moscow’s February 2022 attack on Ukraine.
A driver fleeing a traffic stop on Naval Base Guam caused base security officers to stop all traffic at the main gate for nearly three hours.