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The aircraft carrier is the largest of its kind in the world and is the most expensive ship ever built. Its so big it can carry a ,9000 person NATO strike group

Seaman Recruit Ryan Sawyer Mays cleared by Navy judge following trial

The fugitive defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who is at the center of one of the U.S. Navy’s worst corruption scandals, has requested asylum in Venezuela, according to  a law enforcement official in the South American country

A fugitive defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who claims to have incriminating sex photos of top U.S. Navy brass could become the latest bargaining chip in Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to win official recognition from the Biden administration

Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who fled home arrest in San Diego earlier this month, was arrested Tuesday morning in Venezuela as he attempted to board an airplane at the Caracas international airport, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

‘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 --…