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Three convicted in 2014 Malaysian jet crash in Ukraine
A Dutch court has convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile.
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press
‘Five Eyes’ on China: US allies + Malaysia conduct exercises
And the Air Force vowed no lull in FONOPs over the South China Sea.
US carrier sails into disputed South China Sea waters amid new flare-ups
A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday in the latest show of America's military might amid new territorial flare-ups involving China and three rival claimant states.
US forces have much to learn from Ukraine’s fight with Russia, says State Department official
“Ukraine is a laboratory of techniques and procedures,” George Kent, deputy assistant secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the U.S. Department of State, told Military Times Tuesday afternoon
By Howard Altman
After talks with North Korea flop, Pompeo flies to Philippines to discuss China
US worried over Chinese moves threatening navigation.
Even before US ships moved through the Taiwan Strait, the region was simmering
In the South China Sea, Beijing is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
Thailand and US launch annual Cobra Gold military exercise
Thailand and the United States on Tuesday hosted the opening ceremony for the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, the biggest activity of its type in the Asia-Pacific region with 29 nations taking part as participants or observers.
The Russian military wants authority to shoot passenger jets out of the sky
Proposed new rules would allow the military to open fire on passenger jets that “refuse to obey commands to land.”
By Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider
After latest FONOP, China fires ’stern complaints’ at US
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters on Monday that China dispatched planes and ships to demand that the guided-missile destroyer McCampbell leave waters around the Paracel Islands.
What would happen if Amelia Earhart disappeared today?
Eight decades later, planes still go missing — but it’s getting harder to fly off the map.
By Brian Strzempkowski and Shawn Pruchnicki, The Ohio State University