The U.S. State Department has designated U Min Zin, an American scholar who studied Myanmar, as wrongfully detained in China. He is the second U.S. academic to receive the designation in recent months.
NYTimes – US 2 sources and 2 references are grouped here to show the source evidence behind this ONP dossier.
NYTimes – US U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, is one of two U.S. citizens the department has designated as wrongfully detained in China.
NYTimes – US Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon, a progressive who identifies as a democratic socialist, won Florida's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent. She will face Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody in November's general election. The Associated Press projected both primary wins.
NYTimes – World A luxury safari helicopter crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya on Wednesday morning with no survivors, killing all seven people on board. Five of the dead were Americans, the US State Department said. Among those killed were Ecuador's director of national intelligence, Michele Sensi-Contugi, his wife Stephany Hollihan, and NBCUniversal journalist José Alberto Suárez, a Florida-based Telemundo executive. Search and recovery efforts were hampered by fire at the site and difficult terrain, officials said.
NYTimes – US North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, South Korea and Japan said, a day after the US scaled back joint military exercises with South Korea. Pyongyang said the reduced drills remained provocative. President Donald Trump had called the exercises "hostile" toward North Korea and said he would meet leader Kim Jong-un later this year.
