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ParamountThe Duke of Sussex surprised his wife with a video call during her appearance as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia.During the episode, Prince Harry called Meghan to check in, with producers handing her the phone. She greeted him by saying “hi, my love,” and afterwards called him “a charmer”.Contestants were set the task of transforming a staple ingredient into a dish “fit for a duchess”, although the duchess herself urged her fellow judges to “call me Meghan”.Critics were split on the episode, with The Sunday Times calling it “one big gush-fest” while Hello Magazine posted she “made MasterChef Australia…
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Artists EquityEmpereur is one af the prison’s most successful artists – the music video for his song Sa Ngando has been viewed 24,000 times on YouTubeNew Bell – a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon – is a city within a city.The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who whizz through congested courtyards on foot to hand deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help stretched guards police the facility) and market (a string of stalls where convicts sell and buy goodies, like fried cassava and beignet pastries).Basically, the occupants of New Bell have adapted the jail’s slack laws…
ReutersA mosque in the village of Qusra was reportedly targeted by settlers overnightIsraeli settlers have set fire to two mosques, as well as cars and agricultural land in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say, as tensions in the territory continue to flare. The latest attacks come two days after a clash between settlers and Palestinians near the village of Tal, which left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead.Both sides accused the other of provoking the violence. The confrontation has further inflamed the situation in the West Bank, which has seen ever growing violence by extremist settlers against Palestinians, encouraged…
Getty ImagesFirefighters are battling to contain wildfires burning near to the city of Bordeaux as tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the surrounding region. Speaking on Sunday, the city’s Mayor, Thomas Cazenave, said the fire was about 15km (9 miles) from the outskirts of the city’s wider region, and 25 to 30km (15 and 19 miles) from its centre, although downplayed the possibility of Bordeaux being evacuated. Overnight into Sunday about 55,000 people were evacuated from villages to the south of the city in the Gironde region, famed for its vineyards. Wildfires have raged across Europe over…
Getty ImagesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders cast El-Sayed as the future of the Democratic Party at a rally in Detroit last SaturdayOn a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American left, Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders were there to champion Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed – a doctor running on a platform of universal healthcare.His supporters carried signs with…
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Andy Burnham rules out early election in exclusive BBC interviewThe new prime minister told Laura Kuenssberg that people “voted for a manifesto” that he would honour, when pressed on whether there will be an early general election.1 hr agoPolitics