Air traffic controller arrested after ‘incident’ at Washington DC area control tower

An air traffic controller was charged with assault and battery after an “incident” at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday night, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told CNN in a statement. Damon Marsalis Gaines, 39, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged with assault and battery, according to the airport. “The employee is on administrative…

China launches military drills around Taiwan, calls its president a ‘parasite’

By Joe Cash, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China began joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan on Tuesday as a “stern warning” against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a “parasite”, as Taiwan sent warships to respond to China’s navy approaching its coast. The exercises around the democratically governed…