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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Two Air Force pilots were hospitalized in Florida Thursday after their jet crash-landed at Tyndall Air Force Base , authorities said. "At approximately 11:25 a.m. this morning a Mirage F1B aircraft contracted through Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) crashed off the end of the flight line," Col. Gregory Moseley, the 325th Fighter Wing commander, said in a statement. "First responders were dispatched to the scene immediately, and both pilots were taken to a hospital in Panama City, Fla., to assess injuries sustained during the crash." ATAC told Military.com that one of the pilots ejected before the crash. ALABAMA MILITARY PLANE CRASH LEAVES 2 DEAD "Our thoughts and prayers are with the pilots and their families," Moseley said. 90th Fighter Squadron F-22 Raptors from … [Read more...] about Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base sees jet crash land; pilots hospitalized

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is investigating whether a recent assault on a 27-year-old Air Force veteran in Koreatown qualifies as a hate crime , as detectives seek surveillance video in an attempt to identify potential suspects, Fox News has learned. Denny Kim, a Korean-American who grew up in Los Angeles, described in a recent on-camera interview with KNBC how he was knocked down and berated with racial slurs in Koreatown on Feb. 16. "I was terrified for my life," Kim recalled, still showing signs of a black eye about a week after the assault. "They started calling me ‘ching-chong,’ ‘g---,’ ‘Chinese virus,’ just all sorts of nasty stuff. They eventually struck me on my face and I fell down to the ground." A spokesman with the LAPD confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that detectives … [Read more...] about LAPD investigates Koreatown assault on Air Force veteran Denny Kim as possible hate crime

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - A U.N. human rights expert is calling for an urgent investigation into allegations that Eritrean forces have forcibly repatriated Eritrean refugees who were living in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray province. His report has been submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, started his mandate on November 1. An Ethiopian military offensive began in Tigray November 4 after months of rising tensions between Addis Ababa and forces of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF. When the conflict erupted, he said more than 96,000 Eritrean refugees were in four camps. Addressing the Human rights Council on Wednesday, Babiker said he has received information from credible sources about the precarious situation of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in the province. “I am also concerned about allegations of possible implication of the Eritrean troops in cases of serious human … [Read more...] about UN Investigator Probes Alleged Forced Return of Eritrean Refugees from Ethiopia

This month, Britain and Japan, the two most powerful offshore island nations on the Eurasian continent, undertook to strengthen a special relationship that they established over a century ago. In January 1902, the two countries agreed to a formal alliance, an arrangement whose scope was twice expanded, first in 1905 and again in 1911. The alliance’s objective was clear: They sought to contain Russian expansion in China. The current agreement again focuses on those countries, though it is China, rather than Russia, that the British and Japanese view as the primary threat to their security. The earlier treaties specifically provided for mutual defense, which led to Japan’s entering World War I on the side of the Allies. The current agreement does not go that far, but it does echo similar sentiments. Britain’s foreign and defense secretaries, Dominic Raab and Ben Wallace, and their Japanese counterparts, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, announced … [Read more...] about Britain is back in Asia, sending a message to Beijing

A group of Russian diplomats and their families travelled home from their embassy in North Korea this week via an unusual mode of transportation — a hand-pushed railcar. CNN reported Friday that due to the border and flight restrictions imposed by North Korea during the coronavirus pandemic, eight employees at the Russian Embassy in Pyongyang were left stranded for months. The Russian families spent a total of 32 hours this week on North Korea’s outdated rail system, followed by a two-hour bus ride closer to the border. ADVERTISEMENT From there, the Russians used a manual railcar loaded with their children and luggage across the final 0.6 miles that separates their country from North Korea. Video and pictures of the families showed them manually pushing the car from behind as they crossed over the border Thursday. This is how a group of Russian diplomats and their family had to get back to #Russia from North Korea because travel links have been cut by COVID … [Read more...] about Russian diplomats leave North Korea by handcar due to coronavirus restrictions