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Leonard Glenn Francis pleads guilty of running elaborate bribery scheme involving US officials

Local media reported that Leonard Glenn Francis had requested to remain in Venezuela on health and political grounds.

‘Fat Leonard’ Francis bilked the navy out of at least $35m in his extensive bribery scheme

A military contractor at the centre of a major US Navy corruption scandal in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia has been arrested in Venezuela, where he had fled after escaping house arrest in California.

Leonard Glenn Francis fled the US earlier this month ahead of sentencing for his role in a massive bribery scandal.

A US destroyer and a Canadian frigate sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in the latest joint operation aimed at reinforcing the route's status as an international waterway. Beijing views as its own both democratic Taiwan and the narrow body of water separating the island from mainland China --…

Beijing says the self-ruled island is part of China and has been increasingly assertive over its claim.

One pilot was badly burnt in some power lines with his parachute entangled and the other was found not far away from the site of the crash in Texas, US

A U.S. Navy warship and a Canadian frigate made a routine transit through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the militaries of both nations said, at a time of heightened military tension between Beijing and Taipei.