Found

The U.S. Navy recovered the bodies of 10 sailors killed in an accident involving the USS McCain. The destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore on Aug. 21. After days of searching, divers found the remains of the sailors inside the flooded compartments of the ship. The McCain accident was the fourth involving U.S. warships in Asian waters this year. Following the incident, the Navy suspended all operations for one day and removed Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin from his post as commander of the Navy’s 7th Fleet.

Charged

Spanish authorities on Aug. 22 charged two suspects with terrorism after the Barcelona attack that killed 15 people. The government transferred four suspects, the only survivors of the terrorism cell behind the attack, to Madrid for trial. After Judge Fernando Andreu questioned them, he chose to release one, detain a second, and charge two, Mohamed Chemlal and Driss Oukabir. The group seems to have intended the attack to be much larger, but an explosion in the group’s bomb factory derailed those plans. The explosion injured Chemlal. Police had killed one other member of the group.

Died

A U.S. soldier who defected to North Korea in 1962 died last year, according to an Aug. 15 interview with his two sons. James Dresnok had been stationed in South Korea when he crossed the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas and deserted to the North. Dresnok, along with other deserters, went on to participate in North Korean propaganda aimed at American troops in the South. He played an American villain in a film for North Koreans and became a kind of celebrity. He married a Romanian woman, possibly lured to the country, and had two sons. In 2006, Dresnok told an interviewer he wouldn’t leave the North for any amount of money.

Permitted

Cambodia will permit anti-trafficking ministry Agape International Missions to stay in the country after finishing an investigation last month into a controversial news report on the Cambodian sex trade. AIM, an evangelical organization, helped publish a story in July that incorrectly identified girls who were sold into brothels by their own mothers. The news report called the girls Cambodian, but further research proved they were ethnic Vietnamese. Prime Minister Hun Sen told reporters that AIM had offended the integrity of Cambodian mothers and threatened to expel AIM from the country. AIM apologized, and the government decided the organization had accomplished enough good to counterbalance the report and could stay.

Suspended

The U.S. Army on Aug. 23 announced the suspension of an unspecified number of Fort Benning drill sergeants after allegations of sexual misconduct. Fort Benning graduated its first female soldiers in May 2017, after the Obama administration opened combat units to women in 2013. A female trainee recently accused a Fort Benning drill sergeant of sexual misconduct, and Fort Benning officials uncovered a number of additional allegations when they investigated further. The Army isn’t reporting how many men are involved.