California moves to join US antitrust case against Google aljazeera.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aljazeera.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
US targets Chinese talent in drive to ‘decouple’ science
This month a United States Justice Department official revealed that more than a thousand visiting researchers from China working in US universities had left the country since the summer, amid a stepped-up investigation by the department of alleged espionage by scientists ‘secretly’ affiliated with the Chinese government or military.
John Demers, chief of the Department of Justice’s national security division, pointed to the arrests this year of at least five researchers from China who had US visas but had not disclosed their affiliations to the Chinese military or Communist Party in their visa applications.
Protests Erupt as South Korea s Most Notorious Rapist Walks Free nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Detention of Canadians Kovrig and Spavor Reaches Two Year Mark
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 10, 2020
December 10, 2020 marks both international Human Rights Day and the two year anniversary of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig’s detentions in China. The two Canadians were seized by Chinese police ten days after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver. She is currently under house arrest in Canada while undergoing extradition proceedings to the United States on fraud charges related to Huawei’s business with Iran. It is widely believed that Spavor and Kovrig were taken as hostages to facilitate Meng’s release. At The New York Times, Javier C. Hernández and Dan Bilefsky reported on
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against State Over Prisons alabamanews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alabamanews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.