The United States Navy’s largest overseas fleet is coming off a troubling year: five accidents, 17 sailors killed, leaders summarily dismissed. And on Tuesday, a military spokesperson said the Navy will convene court-martial proceedings against sailors tied to two deadly collisions last year. The spate of collisions involving the 7th […]
Daily Archives: January 18, 2018
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The hermit state announced today it had reached a deal with its neighbours to the South to send a team and a 230-strong “cheering squad” to the games at Pyeongchang next month. Accompanying the athletes will be a delegation of officials from the hermit kingdom, as well as potentially a […]
The forum has issued its Global Risk Survey citing a “critical period of intensified risks” in the year ahead. Weapons top the list in terms of impact, but in the report’s top ten ranking three are environmental risks such as extreme weather, natural disasters or a failure to adapt to […]
The suspected betrayal of U.S. informants in China by a former CIA officer is “one of the biggest losses and intelligence failures in modern history,” a former counterintelligence official told NBC News. “There was a period of time when reporting to the U.S. intelligence community out of China dried up […]
Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE A defunct Chinese space station is expected to plunge to Earth from its orbital perch in late March. The Tiangong-1 station will mostly burn up as it plummets through Earth’s atmosphere. Some fragments could survive the fiery reentry, but experts say the risk to humans […]
Health bosses have warned that the spread could be “catastrophic” following the shocking death of a child in Uganda earlier this week. The young girl contracted the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), which has been dubbed the “bleeding eye fever” and is thought to be even more deadly than the […]
Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, suffered a serious back injury after a fall while yachting, his company confirmed on Wednesday. A Fox spokeswoman said that Murdoch is still active and working despite the injury and he is resting at his vineyard just outside of Los Angeles. […]
The research group said the EU businesses supply chains would be hit badly if there was a no-deal Brexit. It claimed a hard Brexit would cost the UK economy £120 billion by 2020. The report from Oxford Economics highlights the risks for both sides should the UK be forced to […]