Month: February 2020

CAYCE, S.C. – Authorities on Friday identified a man whose body was found during the search for Faye Marie Swetlik, a South Carolina girl who was also found dead Thursday in Cayce. Coty Scott Taylor, 30, was found dead shortly after Faye’s body was found Thursday morning, said Lexington County coroner Margaret Fisher and Sgt. First…

  Brett Flashnick/AP The US Air Force has clarified grooming and uniform guidelines to allow religious exemptions for Sikhs and Muslims who wear turbans, hijabs, and beards.  Airmen were previously allowed to make a request for religious accommodations, but they were granted case-by-case and it could take a while. In 2017, the US Army became…

The Trump administration pulled funding in its 2021 budget for Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military news organization that has published a daily newspaper continuously since World War II for troops stationed around the world. At a Thursday press conference in Belgium, Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained the rationale behind the decision to withhold approximately…

By Ebrahim Harris and Matthew Tostevin KUALA LUMPUR/ SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) – An American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia has tested positive for the new coronavirus a second time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia said on Sunday, after the cruise firm and Cambodian authorities sought further tests. The 83-year-old woman was the…

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — The cruise ship that was allowed to dock in Cambodia after being turned away at five other ports by authorities fearful of the spread of the deadly new virus from China disembarked passengers for a second day on Saturday so they can fly home. After being stranded at sea for two…

KUALA LUMPUR/SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) – An 83-year-old American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia after being shunned by other countries has tested positive for the new coronavirus after being tested in Malaysia, health authorities said on Saturday. The woman was the first passenger from the MS Westerdam, operated by Carnival Corp unit…

The United Nations (UN) has called on the international community to provide nearly $76 million to finance aerial spraying of pesticides in East Africa, where swarms of locusts continue to decimate crops and threaten food security in the region. In a tweet published Thursday, the Executive Director for the UN World Food Programme warned that…

AP Photo/Vincent Yu Hong Kong’s Disneyland is letting the city use its sites to quarantine people as the government tries to stop the deadly coronavirus from spreading. The government wants to build quarantine units on a vacant site that the resort had planned on using for an expansion. Lawmakers had previously proposed using its hotels…

A new debit card from the nation’s largest black-owned bank with an image of Harriet Tubman throwing a gesture that bears striking resemblance to one from the movie “Black Panther” drew criticism and expressions of disbelief on social media. The famed abolitionist and political activist is shown with fists crossed over her chest, which some…

(Bloomberg) — Demonstrators in Mexico City, outraged by the horrific murder of a 25-year-old woman, on Friday sprayed graffiti on the presidential palace and disrupted President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s daily press conference. Even in a nation accustomed to rampant homicides and frequent violence against women, the case of Ingrid Escamilla was particularly shocking. Pictures…