January 2020

A Small Step for Space Force Is Not a Giant Leap for Uniform Design

New year, new military branch, same old uniform. The United States Space Force on Friday unveiled the name tapes for its utility uniforms, showcasing the blue embroidered name on a camouflage uniform — much to the internet’s delight and confusion. “The first #SpaceForce utility uniform nametapes have touched down in the Pentagon,” the Space Force

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Libya players agree to respect arms embargo, push cease-fire

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says countries with interests in Libya’s long-running conflict have agreed that they should respect a much-violated arms embargo, which should be better controlled than it has been to date By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press January 19, 2020, 7:34 PM 4 min read BERLIN — Countries with interests in

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Comme Des Garçons: Row over white fashion models’ cornrow wigs

Image copyright ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT Image caption The wigs were part of the company’s men’s autumn and winter collection at Paris Fashion Week Japanese fashion brand Comme Des Garçons has been accused of cultural appropriation after white models took to its runway wearing cornrow wigs. The wigs were part of the company’s men’s autumn and winter

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As Protests in South America Surged, So Did Russian Trolls on Twitter, U.S. Finds

WASHINGTON — Watching political unrest explode across South America this fall, officials at the State Department noticed an eerily similar pattern in anti-government protests that otherwise had little in common. In Chile, nearly 10 percent of all tweets supporting protests in late October originated with Twitter accounts that had a high certainty of being linked

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