Princes William, Harry unveil Princess Diana’s statue

Britain’s Prince William, left and Prince Harry unveil a statue they commissioned of their mother Princess Diana, on what woud have been her 60th birthday, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London, Thursday July 1, 2021. (Dominic Lipinski /Pool Photo via AP) LONDON (AP) — Princes William and Harry unveiled a statue of their

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Trump’s company braces for expected unveiling of criminal tax charges on Thursday

File – This file photo from Wednesday Jan. 11, 2017, shows President-elect Donald Trump, left, his chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, and his son Donald Trump Jr., right, during a news conference at Trump Tower in New York. Prosecutors in New York are expected to bring the first criminal charges in a two-year investigation

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Over 1,100 unmarked graves found so far at Indigenous schools in Canada

By Barry Ellsworth Another 182 graves revealed at St. Eugene’s Mission in British Columbia As Canada prepares to commemorate its birth as a nation on July 1, it will be a bleak anniversary overshadowed by the chilling news that there are 1,148 unmarked graves discovered at the sites of three former Indian residential schools. In

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Bill Cosby freed from prison, his sex conviction overturned

File – In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the

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Somali government, World Bank sign $445 million projects

Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia, Abdirahman Duale Beyle, met with Kristina Svenssn, Somalia’s Representative to the World Bank, at the Ministry of Finance. The Finance Minister in his meeting with the World Bank’s representative in Somalia spoke of success to modify the economic and investment projects in the

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Crash in international tourism may cut $4T in global GDP

File Photo/Somali Times Tourism unlikely to recover to pre-pandemic levels within next year or 2, UN body projects Pandemic’s blow to international tourism has cost the global economy more than $4 trillion in 2020 and 2021, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said on Wednesday. International tourism and its closely linked sectors suffered an

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Tigray forces seize regional capital, say Ethiopian-led troops are on the run

Credit Associated Press Photo Ben Curtis/Fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) greet each other on the street in the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, By Giulia Paravicini Maggie Fick Tigray capital under full control of TPLF, spokesman says Government forces being pursued No

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Thousands of EU citizens may lose legal status to live in UK

File – In this file photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, an anti-Brexit campaigner waves European Union and British Union flags outside Parliament in London. Millions of Europeans who have freely lived, worked and studied in the U.K. for decades, now have to apply to stay under the “settlement” plan, but the deadline for applications

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Exclusive: Camera ‘switched to catch Matt Hancock’

An internal investigation is seeking to discover if the camera was moved accidentally / REUTERS     By Joe Murphy CCTV ‘deliberately turned from balcony to door where minister kissed aide’ The CCTV camera that ended Matt Hancock’s career was deliberately tampered with to “stitch up” the former Health Secretary, senior Whitehall insiders believe. The

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Suldaan Said Ahmed, first Somalia-born Finnish MP

Finnish politician and incoming Member of Parliament Suldaan Said Ahmed. Photo: Twitter/@suldaansaid. “I’m the first, but I’m certainly not the last,” he emphasized “Glass ceilings are made to be broken,” Suldaan Said Ahmed (Left Alliance) told the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) when interviewed about his impending appointment as a Finnish member of Parliament. “I’m the

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