Sunday’s interview special opened with Meghan describing how naive she was about the ground rules of royal life before she married her husband, Harry, nearly three years ago. In a wide-ranging interview aired on Sunday, Harry and Meghan described painful discussions about the colour of their son’s skin, losing royal protection and the intense pressures that led the Duchess of Sussex to contemplate suicide.The interview with Oprah Winfrey was the couple’s first since they stepped down from royal duties and the two-hour special included numerous revelations.Harry told Winfrey that he felt trapped by royal life and was surprised that he…
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The 58-year-old will return after holding off competition from Victor Font and Toni Freixa Joan Laporta returned as Barcelona FC president on Sunday after winning the club’s elections by a landslide, with his central pledge to try to persuade Lionel Messi to stay.Mr. Laporta was last president at Barca between 2003 and 2010, which included overseeing the hugely successful appointment of Pep Guardiola as coach and the iconic treble-winning team of 2008/9.In total, the club won four La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues during Laporta’s seven-year spell in charge.The 58-year-old will return after holding off competition from Victor Font…
The Secretary of State has also called on special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad to share with both the Afghan government and Taliban written proposals to help accelerate discussions, according to the TOLONews repor Secretary of State Antony Blinken is proposing a series of steps to help jumpstart Afghanistan’s stalled peace process between the government and Taliban, according to a letter from Mr. Blinken to Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani published on Sunday by Afghanistan’s TOLONews.Also read: India is a bipartisan success story: Secretary of State-designate Blinken, signals continuity in tiesThe letter calls for bringing the two sides together for a U.N.-facilitated conference…
The health ministry tweeted that its health workers are treating the injured at the site of the tragedy and in medical facilities, but feared people were still missing under the rubble A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 400 others, state television reported.State television TVGE read out a statement from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema which said the explosion was due to the “negligent handling of dynamite” in the military barracks located in the neighborhood of Mondong Nkuantoma in Bata. He said that the explosion occurred at 4…
Announcing the attacks, the Houthis also said they attacked military targets in the Saudi cities of Dammam, Asir and Jazan. Yemen’s Houthi forces fired drones and missiles at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Sunday, attacking a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura in an assault the kingdom said was aimed at the security and stability of global energy supply.Also read: Riyadh says it intercepted armed droneThe Saudi energy ministry said an oil storage yard at Ras Tanura, the site of an oil refinery and the world’s biggest offshore oil loading facility, was attacked with a drone but…
In a twist to the Karnataka CD scandal case purportedly containing former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi’s intimate moments with a woman whom he is alleged to have abused after promising a government job, the complainant, Dinesh Kallahalli, filed a petition before the police on Sunday seeking withdrawal of the case. However, the police said the probe into the case, which led to Mr. Jarkiholi’s resignation as Minister, would continue.Mr. Kallahalli, a social activist, who had earlier filed a police complaint that Mr. Jarkiholi abused the woman, submitted the petition through his advocate to withdraw the complaint on the grounds that the…
The Haryana government is open to including suggestions from industry bodies while framing rules for a law that provides 75% reservation in the private sector to jobseekers from the State, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Sunday. The first meeting for framing the rules will be held here on Monday, he said.Last week, Governor Satydeo Narain Arya gave his assent to the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020, which provides 75% reservation for those who have a domicile certificate and are seeking private-sector jobs with a monthly salary of less than ₹50,000. You have reached your limit…
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Sunday farmers should not beg for their rights and should ask for their dues from the government firmly. “It is time to take the movement that started at the Delhi borders to villages,” she said while addressing a kisan panchayat organised by the Congress in Kaili village of Sardhana tehsil in Meerut.Also read: Farmers’ protests | Farmers mark ‘century’ of protest against farm lawsThis was her fifth panchayat in western Uttar Pradesh in the last one month.Promising to fight for the farmers’ cause till her last breath, Ms. Vadra, who arrived at…
The Supreme Court of Nepal on Sunday scrapped the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and revived the two original parties that had joined hands in 2018 to form the ruling party. With this decision, the original ruling alliance between the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre) has been re-established. Prime Minister Oli’s faction has welcomed the decision. A joint bench of Justices Kumar Regmi and Bam Kumar Shrestha took away the name of the ruling NCP because of a case filed by Rishi Kattel, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal. Mr. Kattel had…
In 2011, the Congress was given 63 seats out of which it won five seats. In the subsequent election (2016), the party got 41 seats and emerged victorious in eight seats. The DMK cannot be blamed for allotting only 25 Assembly seats to the Congress, said Congress senior leader P. Chidambaram in Sivaganga on Sunday.Addressing a meeting of party workers at Keezhaseevalpatti in Tirupathur Assembly Constituency in the district, he said that in 2011, the Congress was given 63 seats from which it won five seats. In the subsequent election (2016), the party got 41 seats and emerged victorious in…