To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley claimed last week that China was close to a “sputnik moment” due to its successful test of a hypersonic missile. However, U.S ... It has all of our attention.” ... and USSR...The U.S ... .
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.” ... .
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.
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 ... .
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 ... .
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 ... .
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has declared a national state of emergency as rival Tigray forces threaten to move on the capital as the country’s yearlong war escalates quickly ... Thousands of people have been killed since then ... Such actions would be implemented by law ... .
Palestinians facing forced displacement from a flashpoint neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem have rejected a deal that would have seen them accept the temporary ownership of their homes by an Israeli settler organisation ... Protests earlier this year over the case helped trigger an 11-day war between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza ... .
Ethiopia has tried to limit a UN human rights investigation into atrocities committed in the blockaded Tigray region, people with knowledge of the probe say ...Access to Tigray had been granted provided the UN accepted to work with EHRC ... “We believe this is a tool of the government,” he said of the EHRC ... .
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 ... .
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist Adam K. Thomas
The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) departs Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for sea trials following a maintenance availability, Dec. 15, 2016, in Washington. China is accusing the U.S. of a "lack of transparency and responsibility" regarding an accident in the South China Sea involving the USS Connecticut last month ... AP-Yonhap.
Michelle Wu addresses supporters at her election night party, in Boston, Nov. 2. Wu defeated fellow City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George in the race for Boston mayor. AP-Yonhap ... Boston voters tapped City Councilor Michelle Wu, 36, on Tuesday to serve in the city's top political office ... Congress, in this Nov. 4, 2018, file photo. AP-Yonhap ... Americas ... 2 ... .