John Hayward

Internet watchdogs generally agreed that Internet freedom declined once again in 2024 – the fourteenth loss in a row, according to Freedom House. The major drivers of declining Internet freedom over the past year were the rise of military juntas, […]

The Canadian government pledged to crack down on student visa abuse after Indian officials complained about a “well-planned conspiracy” that used Canadian student visas to smuggle Indian nationals into the United States. According to India’s Directorate of Enforcement, an umbrella

The Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law in early December. It was the first time South Korean courts have ever issued an arrest

Saudi Arabia’s Neom project was meant to be the city of the future, the crowning achievement of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Saudi Vision 2030” plan to diversify the national economy away from oil. A Wall Street Journal exposé revealed that the

One day after a Boeing 737-800 flying for South Korea’s Jeju Air burst into flames during an emergency landing necessitated by landing gear problems, a second Jeju Air airplane of the same type reported a landing gear problem and returned

A passenger plane operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport at shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, causing a fiery crash that killed at least 28 of its 181 passengers

South Korean lawmakers impeached Acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday on the grounds that he was not moving quickly enough to complete the impeachment and trial of former President Yoon Suk-yeol after the latter’s disastrous attempt to impose martial law

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Friday that an injured North Korean soldier, captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting for Russia in Kursk, has succumbed to his wounds. “We confirmed through a friendly nation’s intelligence organization that a

The Russian government on Friday struggled to manage international outrage over the increasing likelihood that a Russian surface-to-air missile brought down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 on Wednesday, killing 38 of its passengers. Aviation experts, and the Ukrainian government, believed from

Russia’s FSB security service announced on Friday that U.S. citizen Eugene Spector was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing biotechnology secrets for the Pentagon. “The American, acting in the interests of the Pentagon and a commercial organization affiliated