Month: February 2020

Kigali (AFP) – A popular Rwandan singer whose music was banned by the ruling regime “committed suicide” in custody, police announced Monday, three days after he was caught trying to flee the country. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Kizito Mihigo, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide whose songs angered the government of strongman President Paul…

JERUSALEM–Two decades of expanding operations against what United States Special Operations Command called a “global insurgency of state and non-state actors” has led to fatigue at home and questions abroad about U.S. strategy. Trump, Afghanistan, and ‘The Tweet of Damocles’ The latest Trump administration deal with the Taliban, challenges to the U.S. role in Syria…

Singapore cut its economic growth forecast for this year on Monday as the coronavirus batters tourist arrivals and trade. The city-state is one of the worst affected places outside China, with 75 cases of the virus so far. China has more than 70,000 infections. Singapore downgraded its 2020 growth estimate to a range of -0.5…

(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter Plunging oil prices stemming from the coronavirus outbreak led the International Monetary Fund to cut its estimate for Nigerian economic growth, highlighting the difficulties Africa’s top crude producer faces reviving and diversifying its economy. The forecast was lowered to 2% from 2.5%, the…

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers added Panama, the Seychelles, the Cayman Islands and Palau to the EU’s blacklist of tax havens, while giving Turkey more time to avoid being listed, an EU document said on Tuesday. The list, which was set up in 2017 after revelations of widespread tax evasion…

Sanders: Bloomberg is attempting to ‘buy the presidency’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Sen. Bernie Sanders directly attacked former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for attempting to “buy the presidency” at a campaign rally Sunday in Carson City, Nevada. “Well, you buy the presidency — at least he’s going to try to buy the presidency…

Three times a day, Gie and her team push a convoy of dining carts through the corridors of the quarantined luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess. Wearing face masks and gloves, they stop at occupied rooms, greeting passengers and delivering meals before moving on to the next deck. The task runs like clockwork — crew members…

14 American citizens who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and returned to the US have tested positive for coronavirus. Over 300 people were evacuated from the ship, which is docked and held in quarantine near the port of Yokohama, Japan. Charter flights carrying the evacuees landed at two air force bases in…

Key point: It’s no accident that the North Korean military has evolved asymmetric means such as long range border artillery, light infantry, infiltration forces, and chemical and radiological units to counter the South’s increasing technological superiority. In the last seventy years, the Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army) has evolved from a constabulary force into one…

Heavy rain has bought severe flooding to parts of Mississippi and Tennessee, leaving up to 1,000 homes flooded across the two states as officials caution that more rain is expected in the coming days. During a Monday press conference, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said that the Pearl River — which runs through multiple towns in…