Melbourne. A 4-year-old girl who vanished while camping with her family in a remote area of Western Australia was found "alive and well" 18 days later in a locked house, authorities said Wednesday. The girl, CleoSmith, was freed after the police broke into the empty house in Carnarvon, the same town where she and her family lived ... About 1 a.m ... .
The Taliban has banned the use of foreign currencies in Afghanistan, a move that could further disrupt an economy on the brink of collapse. "The economic situation and national interests in the country require that all Afghans use Afghan currency in their every trade," the Taliban said ... Assets frozen, funds stopped ... Related Topics. .
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Peter HUTCHISON and Andréa BAMBINO. Ex-cop Eric Adams, who fought racial discrimination within the police, was elected New York's next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States's largest city ... Being New York's mayor is often described as the most difficult job in the United States after president.
Rescuers on Wednesday suspended their hunt for three French climbers missing in the Himalayas after an avalanche, with little hope of finding the men alive when the search resumes later this week ... "As we could not make any progress in tracing the missing climbers, we have decided to stop the search operation," he told AFP on Tuesday ... ....
Bitcoin (BTC) mining is getting difficult by the time. The latest report published by Glassnode highlights a sharp increase in BTC mining difficultly. According to the numbers, the BTC mining difficulty level has reached its highest level since June 2021. Every Bitcoin block requires 930k Exahashes to solve at an average block time of 10 mins ... ....
Rescuers in Lagos have dug through rubble searching for survivors a day after a luxurious high-rise building collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital. The 21-storey building was still under construction when it fell abruptly into a pile of concrete slabs on Monday ... “We have recovered more bodies ... “He got approval for 15 floors but built 21.” ... .
GENEVA/ADDIS ABABA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - All sides fighting in the war in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray committed violations that may amount to war crimes, according to a joint investigation by the United Nations and Ethiopia published on Wednesday ... It was released the day after Ethiopia declared a state of emergency ... YEAR OF CONFLICT ... ....
ByteDance Ltd.’s billionaire founder Zhang Yiming has stepped down as chairman, months after resigning as chief executive officer of the TikTok owner that’s seeking to reposition itself amid China’s crackdown on its internet industry ... Representatives with ByteDance and TikTok declined to comment ... ByteDance business units Function Key products ... .
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The WorldFood Program reports successive years of extreme weather events have plunged thousands of people in Madagascar into what WFP officials say is the world’s first climate-induced famine ... The latest U.N ... WFP Deputy Country Director in Madagascar, Aduino Mangoni, said an estimated 30,000 people are suffering from famine ... .
A collection of gems that belonged to the last dynasty of tsars, the Romanovs, will go under the hammer at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva, as seen on Tuesday ...The Grand Duchess was one of the last Romanov to flee Russia ... .
A Republican candidate has been elected the governor of the US state of Virginia, in a setback for Democrats ahead of next year’s nationwide congressional elections. US media outlets CNN and NBC projected late on Tuesday that Glenn Youngkin had won the gubernatorial race ... Youngkin will succeed outgoing GovernorRalph Northam, a Democrat ... .