Prince William plays rugby on first day of climate change and conservation visit to South Africa

Prince William plays rugby on first day of climate change and conservation visit to South Africa

Prince William last visited Africa in 2018 but he has a strong connection to the continent. He travelled there as a boy after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash in 1997. He and his wife, Kate, got engaged at a wildlife conservancy in Kenya in 2010. And he said he came up with the idea for the Earthshot awards while in Namibia in 2018.

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Presidential candidates’ final push before Election Day brings them to same patch of Pennsylvania

Presidential candidates’ final push before Election Day brings them to same patch of Pennsylvania

About 77 million Americans have voted early. A victory by either side would be unprecedented.

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Rot in Man United goes beyond manager, INEOS’ underwhelming track record in football demands critical look

Rot in Man United goes beyond manager, INEOS’ underwhelming track record in football demands critical look

There is so much work to be done. United will hope that a new coach can unlock something in those players the same way Klopp, Arteta and Emery – all of them mid-season appointments – got so much more out of the squads they inherited at Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa.

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Detail in the Devil: Manchester United spent far too much of past decade drifting, going nowhere

Detail in the Devil: Manchester United spent far too much of past decade drifting, going nowhere

Ten Hag was in some ways the quintessential modern-United managerial tenure: a challenging first transfer window, early struggles, a call to arms, back-to-basics football, an improved work ethic, a significant upturn, a trophy success, an upbeat declaration that “this is only the start”… and then looking helpless as the whole thing unravelled, a dysfunctional group of players reverted to type and another would-be saviour was quietly ushered away.

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Lightening kills 14 refugees attending church service in northern Uganda, police say

Lightening kills 14 refugees attending church service in northern Uganda, police say

Friends and family are mourning 14 people killed in a lightning strike in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. The victims, who were buried on Sunday, had been attending a prayer service in a makeshift metallic structure when lighting struck. Credit: AP

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Slave trade: Britain’s foreign secretary says slavery reparations not about cash transfer

Slave trade: Britain’s foreign secretary says slavery reparations not about cash transfer

Britain’s foreign secretary said on Monday that reparations for the UK’s role in the slave trade are not about the “transfer of cash” and reiterated his country’s position that leans toward focusing on the future. There have been calls from some of Britain’s former colonies for a reckoning over its...

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‘We believe you’re a vessel’: Evangelicals told God wants Donald Trump and sermonised to ‘Vote Like Jesus’

‘We believe you’re a vessel’: Evangelicals told God wants Donald Trump and sermonised to ‘Vote Like Jesus’

The day after Musk’s visit, the church’s founder, Charles Stock, gave a sermon entitled How to Vote Like Jesus, in which he discouraged congregants from voting third party or writing in a candidate, saying, “The devil will be happy you didn’t vote.” Stock also told congregants that “a flawed leader who does good things is better than suffering under Ahab and Jezebel, who are wicked.

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Latest polls strike panic among Republicans as late shifts lean the election to VP Harris

Latest polls strike panic among Republicans as late shifts lean the election to VP Harris

Harris’s gains came as the political conversation turned toward the former president’s liabilities. This included his rally at Madison Square Garden and his former chief of staff’s warning that he would rule like a dictator.

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Middle East crisis: Israel’s strikes on Iran spark interest in air-launched ballistic missiles

Middle East crisis: Israel’s strikes on Iran spark interest in air-launched ballistic missiles

The US tested a hypersonic ALBM, the Lockheed Martin AGM-183, but it received no funding for the 2025 fiscal year. Because it has a large arsenal of cruise missiles and other types of long-range strike weapons, Washington has otherwise shown little interest in ALBMs.

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Prince William visits South Africa to promote climate change and environmental awareness

Prince William visits South Africa to promote climate change and environmental awareness

William, the Prince of Wales, last visited Africa in 2018, but he has a strong connection to the continent. William travelled to Africa as a boy after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash in 1997. He and his wife, Kate, got engaged at a wildlife conservancy in Kenya in 2010. And he said he came up with the idea for the Earthshot awards while in Namibia in 2018.

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