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This photo illustration shows people wearing face masks, watch a televised conversation between Meghan Markle and US host Oprah Winfrey, in Arlington, Virginia March 7, 2021. Britain’s royal family on Sunday braced for further revelations from Prince Harry and his American wife, Meghan, as a week of transatlantic claim and counter-claim reaches a climax with the broadcast of their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP NEW YORK — British royal Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan were wed in secret three days before the official ceremony, she revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast Sunday in the United States. “(T)hree days before our wedding, we got married,” she said, revealing that they swapped vows in private before Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welsby ahead of the televised spectacle on May 19 2018 at Britain’s Windsor Castle. “No one knows that. But we called the archbishop, and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is ... » Learn More about Meghan says she and Harry wed ‘3 days before’ official ceremony

President Rodrigo Duterte urged Filipinos to recognize the role of women in bringing progress to the country as the Philippines marked National Women’s Day on Monday. In his message on Monday, Duterte said while there is still much to be done to bring about full gender equality, the government can proudly say that it has created “an environment where women’s rights are respected and their contributions to society are recognized.” “I therefore encourage every Filipino to join us in celebrating the indispensable role of women in our nation’s progress by participating in this month-long celebration and supporting advocacies that seek to fight for and acknowledge the inalienable rights of women as equal partners of men,” the President said. He also urged Filipinos to empower women “to break not only the barriers that have long hindered them from reaching their full potential, but also the backward mindset that fueled a culture of gender oppression and inequality.” Duterte has ... » Learn More about Duterte cites women’s role in nation’s progress

Getting your hands on a PS5 or Xbox Series X remains a crapshoot even now a good long while after pre-orders first opened, but restocks are starting to come more regularly, and resale prices are at least coming down off of their astronomical December highs. I’m seeing more and more people on my timeline celebrating getting their hands on a new console, so that means that at least some of these machines are filtering out into the general public. And there’s a restock coming to GameStop today, January 21: here’s what you need to know. GameStop’s Twitter account posted that it will have availability on PS5, Xbox Series X and Switch sometime today at its website, though we don’t have an exact time. Retailers do this pretty frequently to avoid swamping websites and possibly to gain a slight edge on resellers, but that unfortunately means you need to pay extra close attention if you want to get one. One place the announcement will definitely come through is on the GameStop Twitter ... » Learn More about GameStop Restocks PS5, Xbox Series: What You Need To Know

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex holding their son Archie, meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu (not pictured) at the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON —  Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, said there were concerns about how dark her son Archie’s skin would be before his birth and that such worries explained why he was not given the title of prince. Meghan, whose mother is Black and father is white, said she was naive before she married into the royal family in 2018, but that she ended up having suicidal thoughts and considering self harm after asking for help but getting none. “They didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn’t going to receive security,” Meghan said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on CBS late on Sunday. “In those months when I was pregnant, ... » Learn More about Meghan says UK royals refused to make her son a prince due to skin color concerns

WASHINGTON, D.C.: As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden promised to make a pariah out of Saudi Arabia over the 2018 killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. But when it came time to actually punish Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Biden’s perception of America’s strategic interests prevailed. The Biden administration made clear on Friday that it would forgo sanctions or any other major penalty against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Khashoggi killing even after a US intelligence report concluded the prince ordered it. The decision highlights how the real-time decisions of diplomacy often collide with the righteousness of the moral high ground. And nowhere is this conundrum more stark than in the United States’ complicated relationship with Saudi Arabia, the world’s oil giant, a US arms customer and a counterbalance to Iran in the Middle East. “It is undeniable that Saudi Arabia is a hugely influential country in the Arab world,” State Department spokesman ... » Learn More about Biden retreats from vow to make pariah of Saudis

Provincial Electricity Authority workers repair power lines on Koh Phangan in Surat Thani. (File photo, PEA Koh Phangan Facebook account) SURAT THANI: An anchor dropped by a navy ship damaged an underwater cable supplying power to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan on Monday, causing a widespread blackout, a Provincial Electricity Authority official said. Jakkrit Meedet, PEA's district manager, said the blackout affected tambons Bo Phut, Mae Nam and Maret of Samui district and some areas on Koh Phangan. The investigation revealed it was caused by damage to the 115kv underwater cable supplying power from Khanom district in Nakhon Si Thammarat to Koh Samui. The cable was damaged by an anchor dropped by HTMS Angthong, an amphibious transport dock, about two kilometres west of Samui, he said. The repair would take several days. The damage was near similar damage incurred in 2018, he added. To overcome the problem, the PEA had deployed six mobile power-generating trucks to supply ... » Learn More about Navy ship’s anchor causes blackout on Samui, Phangan

This file photo taken on November 15, 2014, shows shows an iPhone displayed in the new Apple store in Lille, France. Paris prosecutors have launched a probe of US tech giant Apple over suspected “planned obsolescence” in some of its iPhone models, a judicial source said on January 8, 2018. The investigation was opened on January 5 and is being led by anti-trust and consumer protection specialists in the French economy ministry. AFP PARIS, France — French authorities have opened an investigation into Apple over revelations it secretly slowed down older versions of its iPhones, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. The preliminary probe was opened last week over alleged “deception and planned obsolescence” of some Apple products, the office said. It is led by the French body in charge of fraud control, which is part of the finance ministry. It follows a legal complaint filed in December by a French consumer rights group whose aim is to stop the intentional obsolescence of ... » Learn More about France probing Apple’s secret slowdown of old iPhones