WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court considered for the second time whether the parents of a foreigner killed outside the country—in this case, in Mexico—by a U.S. law enforcement officer can pursue a claim for damages against the officer. During oral arguments this week, some of the justices suggested that allowing the lawsuit to proceed could have serious […]

An 18-year-old woman in Hong Kong has published a statement via her representative law firm alleging that she was gang raped by a group of police officers while detained inside the Tsuen Wan police station. The woman, who was only referred to as “Ms. X” in the statement, said she has filed a report with […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in Shanghai on Nov. 4, with Chinese state media reporting that Xi affirmed her administration’s performance during the nearly six months of mass protests in Hong Kong. This is the first time Xi has met with Lam since Hongkongers began the city’s largest-ever […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—At an Aug. 11 afternoon press conference, the wife of Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng presented a letter from President Donald Trump stating his commitment “to oppose the forces of repression and radicalism.” Gao Zhisheng is a famous human rights advocate in China who has been missing since Aug. 12, 2017. Gao’s family and […]

Commentary In a rare news conference, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council made its first official statement about events in Hong Kong since the anti-extradition bill protests began. The statement reveals that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) traditional Hong Kong governing agencies, including the Hong Kong Macau Affairs Office and […]

Ottawa is creating conditions for the telecom giant Huawei to create a monopoly on high-speed internet in Canada’s Far North, leaving its residents vulnerable to Beijing’s will, says a leading analyst. Michael Byers, an Arctic-affairs expert at the University of British Columbia, said there’s no immediate security threat to Huawei Canada’s Monday announcement that it […]

“It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it? We’re sitting in the sunlight, and we are free. “There’s always some organizations, some countries, some structures that want to take our very freedom to sit in the sunlight away. “They want to make it for all to sit in the dark, stay in the dark. “Communist China is […]

CONCORD, N.H.—The driver of a truck in a fiery collision on a rural New Hampshire highway that killed seven motorcyclists was charged June 24 with seven counts of negligent homicide, and records show he was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving last month and in 2013. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested Monday morning at his […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Two Royal Canadian Navy ships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on June 18, in a move likely to draw ire from Beijing. Taiwan’s Military News Agency confirmed the sailing of the two ships on June 19, saying that the Canadian vessels “conducted their freedom of navigation.” The Taiwanese military added that it detected “no […]

As the protest against the government’s extradition bill continues in Hong Kong, there have been many cases of abuse from police against journalists, according to a recent report. The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) stated in a press release on June 17 that it has conducted interviews with 26 journalists, who provided either photographic or video […]

News Analysis As Beijing continues its pressure tactics against Canada that began after the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last year, a second Canadian is now facing the death penalty in China and more Canadian exports are facing obstacles entering the Chinese market. While the federal government says it is using “diplomatic […]

FBI General Counsel Dana Boente has proven to be a key player in the Trump administration. Few, however, are aware of the many crucial positions he has held—and why he may have held them. During President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, Boente has served as the acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general, […]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has severed ties with Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp as U.S. authorities investigate the Chinese firms for alleged sanctions violations, it said on April 3. MIT is the latest top U.S. education institution to unplug telecom equipment made by Huawei and other Chinese companies to avoid losing federal funding. […]

OTTAWA—Global Affairs Canada says consular officials in China visited detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig on March 25. It is the fifth time that Kovrig has received a consular visit since he was detained by Chinese authorities in early December, but the first since he and fellow detainee Michael Spavor were charged with stealing state secrets […]

Six MS-13 gang members who are accused of conspiring to commit two separate murders in Suffolk County, New York, have been indicted, according to an announcement by the district attorney office on March 25. Officials say the investigation began in the summer of 2018. In the first case, 20-year-old Kevin Zuniga, 28-year-old Jose J. Portillo, […]

The surprise arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a central figure in a trade war between two economic superpowers. U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters he would consider intervening in her case—a potential action he alluded to again two weeks ago—if it would help close a […]

DALLAS—A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to murder in the killing of a postal worker during a road-rage attack on a Dallas expressway last year. Donnie Arlondo Ferrell acknowledged in a federal courtroom in Dallas on Feb. 27, that he fatally shot Tony Mosby. The 58-year-old Mosby was driving a Postal Service box truck […]

Police in Indiana arrested three accused female members of the “Felony Lane Gang” who allegedly taunted law enforcement officers in an Instagram post that said, “do ya job [expletive].” The three women—27-year-old Amber Dunlap, 26-year-old Tiphanie Sager, and 23-year-old Toni Huizar—were arrested in Hancock County on Sunday, Feb. 24, after a car chase, police said in […]

NEW YORK/LONDON—An internal investigation by HSBC Holdings PLC into Huawei Technologies’ connections to a suspected front company in Iran found that the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker maintained close financial ties to the firm years after purportedly selling the unit, documents reviewed by Reuters show. The HSBC probe of Huawei came in late 2016 and 2017 […]

OTTAWA—Eight days after Chinese authorities imprisoned Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, a senior Canadian foreign ministry official urged Canadian students to apply for a program to study in China. Sarah Taylor, the director-general of the north-Asia bureau at Global Affairs Canada, made the pitch for the 45-year-old Canada-China Scholarship Exchange Program during a Dec. 18 […]

Jonathan Manthorpe’s “Claws of the Panda” is a comprehensive exposé of just how deeply Beijing’s influence has penetrated Canadian political, corporate, and civilian life.

CLEVELAND—Ohio authorities charged a man on Thursday, Feb. 15, with aggravated murder in the 1992 slaying of a woman at a truck stop, one of four such killings they say he is linked to through DNA evidence. Samuel Legg III, 49, was extradited in January from Arizona to face charges in the sexual assault of […]

Almost three years before Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained by Chinese authorities, Swedish activist Peter Dahlin suffered a similar ordeal in China.

NEW YORK—Accused Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s repeated escapes from the law prove that he “knows he’s guilty,” a U.S. prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at his trial on Jan. 30, urging them not to let him escape again. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Goldbarg’s description of Guzman’s history of dramatic prison escapes […]

NEW YORK—Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said in court on Jan. 28 that he will not testify in his own defense at his U.S. trial. Guzman announced his decision after prosecutors rested their case against him in federal court in Brooklyn. After excusing the jury, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan asked Guzman […]

An international sex trafficking ring operating in the United States, Canada, and Australia has been broken up, following recent arrests and indictments of six individuals for racketeering.  The indictments against the six individuals were unsealed by a federal court in Oregon on Jan. 16, according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice. […]

A former Liberal justice minister accused China of using "hostage diplomacy" against the three. Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye says Canada's arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive was an act of "backstabbing" by a friend. And Lu warns of "repercussions" if Canada bars the firm from its new 5G network for security reasons, as have three of its intelligence-sharing allies. In a rare interview with Canadian journalists, Lu also told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to back off recruiting international support in Canada's feud with China. He said it would be a bad idea for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to use the upcoming World Economic Forum summit in Davos to press that case.

BERLIN—The German government is actively considering stricter security requirements and other ways to exclude China’s Huawei Technologies from a buildout of fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported. Handelsblatt, citing government sources, said government officials were discussing setting security standards that Huawei could not achieve, effectively blocking its participation. Changes to the German telecommunications […]

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, in a rare public appearance following the arrest of his daughter in Canada, said his company has never spied for the Chinese government, the Financial Times reported. “No law in China requires any company to install mandatory backdoors,” Ren said, in his first public comments in years, during an interview […]

The U.N. refugee agency has referred a young Saudi woman to Australia for consideration on Jan. 9 following an assessment which deemed that she is a refugee. The father and brother of Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, arrived in Thailand on Jan. 8, as the Australian government seriously considers granting the woman a humanitarian visa. The Department […]