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Buckingham Palace blasts Prince Harry after his most political remarks yet


September 24, 2020

Buckingham Palace has strongly reacted to Prince Harry breaking royal tradition and issuing his most political remarks yet. Subtly throwing shade at the Duke of Sussex, the palace insiders dissed his statement with a scathing ‘no comment’ reaction to it. The Palace told royal reporter Rebecca English “that they are not commenting on this” because “The Duke is not a …

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Gigi Hadid, Zayn Malik blessed with a baby girl


September 24, 2020

igi Taking to Twitter, the singer announced that he and Gigi are parents now! “Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful,” Malik wrote on Twitter. “To try put into words how i am feeling right now would be an impossible task,” the new dad continued. “The love i feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding. Grateful to …

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Emma Stone exchanges vows with Dave McCary


September 24, 2020

Hollywood’s power couple Emma Stone and Dave McCary have officially tied the knot. As reported by Page Six, a source confirmed that the 31-year-old Easy A actor exchanged vows with McCary, 35, after earlier postponing their wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic. The couple sparked rumours of a wedding after they were spotted wearing matching gold bands. They had announced their engagement back …

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Ali Zafar parties hard with Katrina Kaif in unseen picture from Mumbai


September 24, 2020

Ali Zafar’s career in Bollywood may have been short-lived, but he sure did rubb shoulders with some of finest from the industry. Ali who is a known face in Pakistan, had the honour of romancing Katrina Kaif in th hit movie Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011). On Wednesday, the actor-singer posted a major throwback photo of when he partied the night away …

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Navalny discharged from hospital


September 24, 2020

BERLIN: Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who the West believes was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, has been discharged from hospital after a month and can make a full recovery, his doctors in Berlin said on Wednesday. European leaders have demanded explanations from Moscow since Germany said toxicology tests showed the 44-year-old anti-corruption campaigner was poisoned with Novichok. But …

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‘Where Is My Name?’: Afghan campaign to include mothers’ names on ID cards stirs heated debate


September 24, 2020

Afghan woman Laleh Osmany has been campaigning for years for a change to the age-old custom of officially identifying people by the names of their fathers, calling for mothers’ names to be included on identity cards. But her “Where Is My Name?” campaign, which finally brought a change in the law last week, has stirred heated debate in the conservative Muslim …

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US envoy hails Pakistan’s role in ending Afghan war


September 24, 2020

WASHINGTON: Pakistan now has an even more important role in ending the Afghan war than it did in arranging a peace deal with the Taliban, says William E. Todd, Washington’s new envoy for Islamabad. Mr Todd, who was nominated by President Donald Trump earlier this year, told his confirmation that Pakistan remained a difficult but essential US partner in South …

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Over 380 whales dead in Australia mass stranding


September 24, 2020

MACQUARIE HARBOUR: At least 380 whales have died in a mass stranding in southern Australia, officials said on Wednesday, as hopes faded of saving more than a few dozen of those creatures still trapped. Nearly the entire pod of 460 long-finned pilot whales stuck in Macquarie Harbour — on the rugged and sparsely populated west coast of Tasmania — has …

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Workers lost $3.5tr in wages amid pandemic: UN


September 24, 2020

GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavier toll on jobs than previously feared, the UN said on Wednesday, with hundreds of millions of jobs lost and workers suffering a “massive” drop in earnings. In a fresh study, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) found that by the mid-year point, global working hours had declined by 17.3 per cent compared to …

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Angry Kashmiris would prefer Chinese rule, says Farooq Abdullah


September 24, 2020

NEW DELHI: Besieged Kashmiris, including those that once had faith in their destiny with India, would today prefer to be ruled by China than New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir’s former pro-India chief minister Farooq Abdullah said in a TV interview aired on Wednesday. “Today Kashm­iris do not feel Indian and do not want to be Indian … They are slaves …

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