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King Charles’ brother Andrew to be stripped of ‘prince’ title and evicted from royal mansion
Britain’s King Charles has started a process to strip his brother Andrew of his titles and given him notice to move out of his mansion, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. Andrew, 65, has faced renewed scrutiny over his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following the release of his sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir “Nobody’s Girl.”…
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Moments in motion: Embracing a new era of Asia-Pacific cooperation
At the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea (ROK), Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Gyeongju and pay a state visit to the ROK from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1. “Openness and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific has not only boosted its prosperity, but also injected vitality into the vast…
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Charting a new chapter for Asia-Pacific development through unity, responsibility
Gyeongju, a historic city in South Korea, is about to welcome leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the region’s highest-level, most extensive and most influential economic cooperation mechanism. At the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung of the Republic of Korea (ROK), Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Gyeongju and pay a state…
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Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal after years of doomerism: ‘People will be able to live and thrive’
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures, now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” in a stunning reversal. Gates, 70, who has sunk billions of his vast fortune into initiatives ostensibly meant to combat global warming, penned…
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Eleven killed in Kenya plane crash near Maasai Mara National Reserve
A light plane crash has killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya’s coastal region of Kwale while flying to Maasai Mara National Reserve. The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said in a statement Tuesday that eight Hungarian and two German passengers were on board, along with the Kenyan pilot, who also died in the crash. “Sadly, there are no survivors,”…
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Ivory Coast president, 83, secures fourth term after two rivals barred
Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term following an election in which two of his biggest challengers were barred from running, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second with only 3.09%. The landslide victory is not a huge surprise, as…
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Cameroon President Biya declared election victor; challenger protests
Ninety-two-year-old incumbent reportedly secures 53.66 percent; opponent reports gunfire targeting supporters. Cameroon’s Constitutional Council has declared that President Paul Biya, leader of the country since 1982, has won re-election in a vote accompanied by deadly violence. The council announced on Monday that the 92-year-old incumbent had secured 53.66 percent of the vote in the October 12 election. Opposition candidate Issa…
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Paul Biya wins eighth term as Cameroon President with 53.7% of votes
Paul Biya has been declared winner of Cameroon’s presidential election. The results were announced by the Constitutional Council on Monday. Biya was re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7 percent of the vote, according to official results announced by the Constitutional Council. Rival candidate and former government minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary came second with 35.2 percent, the council said. Biya,…
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A coronation not a contest – Tanzania’s first female president faces little opposition
With no heavyweight opposition candidates cleared to compete in Wednesday’s election, many Tanzanians feel the vote is less like a contest and more like a coronation for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, as she faces her first presidential election. The 65-year-old became the East African nation’s first female head of state after the death in 2021 of sitting President John Magufuli.…
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Barack and Michelle Obama spark backlash after details about recent trip emerge
— here’s what’s happening The Obamas’ latest vacation is making waves — literally and online — after the couple was seen aboard Steven Spielberg’s $250 million superyacht in Portofino, Italy, and the internet is not happy. According to The Cut, Michelle arrived in Portofino before her husband and later joined Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, for lunch aboard the…
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