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Six suspected drug smugglers have been killed in a US attack on a boat near Venezuela’s coast, Donald Trump has said. The US president said intelligence had confirmed it was carrying drugs and associated with “illicit narcoterrorist networks”. Mr Trump said Tuesday’s “lethal kinetic strike” was in international waters as the boat travelled an established […]
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U.S. authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological material into the country, the second such case in days. The FBI said in a criminal complaint that the researcher, identified as Chengxuan Han, a Chinese doctoral student at the College of Life Science and Technology at the Huazhong University […]
A Chinese scientist was arrested while arriving in the US at the Detroit airport, the second case in days involving the alleged smuggling of biological material, authorities said on Monday. The scientist is accused of shipping biological material months ago to staff at a laboratory at the University of Michigan. The FBI, in a court […]
A Chinese national has been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the US, the FBI has said. Zunyong Liu, 34, flew into Detroit Metropolitan Airport in July last year with fusarium graminearum – a pathogen which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice, and sicken livestock and people, according to court documents. According to […]
US federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese nationals with smuggling a toxic fungus into the United States, which authorities claim could be turned into a “potential agroterrorism weapon”. The charges against Jian Yunqing, 33, and Liu Zunyong, 34, two researchers from China, were unsealed by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan […]
The Justice Department announced charges on Tuesday against two Chinese researchers accused of trying to smuggle a fungus into the United States, bringing the case as the government pushes to keep more Chinese students out of the country. The students, Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, were in a romantic relationship last July, when […]
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Quick Reads Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. A Harvard-affiliated researcher faces federal charges for smuggling. Kseniia Petrova was arrested while attempting to bring in frog embryos. Petrova claims she did not intend to break the law regarding customs. A Russian-born researcher affiliated with Harvard University, already facing possible deportation, has now been charged by […]
CNN — American Kalob Byers, 28, who was recently arrested in Russia, has been released after several days in detention, according to a senior Trump administration official. Byers, who was arrested at a Russian airport 10 days ago, was freed only hours before talks between senior US and Russian officials over the war in Ukraine […]