November 2021

The review will be conducted by Gen. Michael Garrett, the commander of US Army Forces Command. Garrett will review “reports of investigation already conducted” but will also “conduct further inquiry into the facts and circumstances” related to the incident, Kirby said. Garrett has 90 days to complete the review, which will cover “civilian casualties that resulted from the incident, compliance with the law of war” and “whether accountability measures would be appropriate,” Kirby added. Austin ordered the review after The New York Times published an extensive investigation into the airstrike earlier this month. Shortly after the investigation published, US Central…

“We are in a community where every segment of the society is being ravaged,” Mustapha, a Nigerian-born attorney and humanitarian, told CNN. For years, the group has terrorized schools in and around Maiduguri, the capital and largest city of Borno State. Teachers have been murdered, students have been kidnapped, and schools have been forced to close their doors. During the pandemic, a statewide lockdown kept all of Mustapha’s students from attending in-person classes for two months, he said. But despite extreme obstacles — terrorism, kidnappings in the region and the Covid-19 pandemic — Mustapha’s schools safely reopened last May. “We…

(CNN) — It was November 1997 and Dina Honour was hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. The then 27-year-old had invited a group of New York City friends who, like her, had decided to stay in the city over the holidays. It has been a tough year for Honour. She’d been suffering from depression after a bad relationship. “I had slowly found my way back to a sense of normal, and was not looking for love,” Honour tells CNN Travel today. Instead, Honour was focusing on hosting her friends for the holiday. She’d set up a dining table in…

Shares in MGM China (MCHVF) plunged 10%, while Wynn Macau (WYNMF) lost 7.8% and Sands China (SCHYF) fell 5.3% as investors fretted about the near-term potential loss of business as well as the longer-term implications of the watershed hardline stance being taken towards the sector by authorities in Macao and mainland China. Alvin Chau, the founder of Suncity — a junket operator that brings in high rollers to play at casinos, extending them credit and collecting on their debts — as well as the CEO of gambling sector investment firm Suncity Group Holdings, was among those arrested, Macao broadcaster TDM…

Then, on August 24, 2016, Taliban gunmen stalked the campus killing anyone who moved. One of them shot Musazai in the leg. She pretended to be dead and the gunman shot her again to finish her off. A bullet struck her in the foot. For the next six hours, as the terrorists rampaged on the campus Musazai lay motionless in a hallway. The Taliban killed a total of 15 students and staff that day. The university was a prominent symbol of the American presence in Afghanistan, which made it an appealing target for the Taliban. For students, particularly women like…

The moves have been prompted by the Department of Defense’s global posture review, which President Joe Biden ordered Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to undertake shortly after taking office in February. Austin started the global posture review in March. The review is classified, but a senior defense official provided some details about the review’s findings. The Indo-Pacific region was a major focus, because of Secretary Austin’s emphasis on “China as the pacing challenge,” for the Department, the senior defense official said. The Biden administration has made countering China its main foreign policy priority as tensions have increased with Beijing, particularly…

Lebanon’s economic crisis, which erupted in 2019, has propelled more than three quarters of the population into poverty and the local currency has plummeted by over 90%. The Lebanese pound sank to more than 25,000 against the dollar last week, from a peg in 2019 of 1,500. Roads were blocked by burning tires in central Beirut, Tripoli in northern Lebanon and the southern city of Sidon. There has been little progress since Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government was appointed in September after more than a year of political deadlock that compounded the crisis. Mikati’s government has been in paralysis since…

The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers said it is releasing roughly 50 million pounds from its strategic maple syrup reserves, the trade group confirmed to CNN Business. That’s almost half of the stockpile. The government-supported organization, which is often called the OPEC of maple syrup, uses its reserves to control syrup prices and supply. As of 2020, Quebec produced 73% of all maple syrup in the world, and its biggest customer by far is the United States, which accounts for around 60% of Canada’s export volume. The strategic reserve was created to keep maple syrup in stock during bad harvest seasons…

The new mutation, which is potentially more transmissible, was first discovered in South Africa and has since been detected in several countries. Here’s a list of the places reporting cases so far. This will be updated. Australia: 2 cases Austria: 1 case Belgium: 1 case Botswana: 19 cases Canada: 2 cases Czech Republic: 1 case Denmark: 2 cases Germany: 3 cases Hong Kong: 3 cases Israel: 1 case Italy: 1 case Netherlands: 13 cases Portugal: 13 cases South Africa: 77 cases United Kingdom: 9 cases Source link

Andersson was first chosen to be prime minister last week, but she quit the same day after her proposed budget was defeated and the coalition government she hoped to lead broke down. Now she has again been appointed to the role by Sweden’s Parliament, and intends to form a minority government of only her own party. She will officially begin the role after a meeting with the country’s King on Tuesday — a stage that she did not reach last week. Andersson was appointed through a razor-thin vote in Sweden’s divided Parliament. While 101 MPs voted for her, 173 voted…