iStock(HONG KONG) -- An American citizen stands to profit as his security company expands operations into a Chinese province described as a modern-day police state by human rights activists, and where the Chinese government is detaining up to a million Muslims in "re-education" camps. Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer and brother of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, is the deputy chairman and minority shareholder of Frontier Services Group (FSG), a Hong Kong-listed security, lo..

iStock(NEW YORK) -- Amin Dzhabrailov remembers the day vividly. He was working in his hair salon in Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya, Russia, in 2017 when he says three large men came in, grabbed him and threw him in the trunk of their car. “My life was going through my eyes. I was expecting that the door [was] gonna open and I’m gonna die,” Dzhabrailov said. What he said followed is painful for Dzhabrailov, who is gay, to recount. Over several days, he was handcuffed to a chair, beaten blac..

iStock(NEW YORK) -- Fish hunters in Norway are trying to round up as many of the hundreds of thousands of salmon that have escaped breeding facilities this year as they can, and an organization is spending a pretty penny toward those efforts. Nearly 300,000 runaway salmon have left the farms and filtered into Norwegian rivers, according to OURO, the country's aquaculture industry association for escaped fish, which is tasked with capturing them. When fish kept in pens escape into connected ..

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) -- Turkey has launched a long-planned military operation in northeastern Syria, targeting the Syrian Kurdish fighters that helped the United States defeat ISIS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced via Twitter on Wednesday that the incursion has begun, with a mission to "prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border." The move comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that American troops would withdraw ..