| 'How dare you': Greta Thunberg tears into world leaders over inaction at U.N. climate summit Posted: 23 Sep 2019 08:11 AM PDT  In an angry and emotional speech at the United Nations climate summit on Monday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg tore into world leaders for failing to act.
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| Man drowns while proposing to his girlfriend underwater: 'This emptiness will never be filled' Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:33 AM PDT  A man drowned Thursday while proposing to his girlfriend from outside their underwater hotel room, according to a Facebook post by his girlfriend.
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| Old lady discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen Posted: 23 Sep 2019 05:24 PM PDT  An early Renaissance masterpiece by the Florentine master Cimabue has been discovered in an old lady's kitchen in a town near Paris, art experts said Monday. The painting is thought to be part of a large diptych dating from 1280 when Cimabue painted eight scenes depicting Christ's passion and crucifixion.
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| Chinese heiress and socialite charged with murdering her ex at a California mansion says he was killed in botched kidnap plot Posted: 24 Sep 2019 01:24 PM PDT  A Chinese heiress and Bay Area socialite charged with murdering the father of her two children at her California mansion has denied the charges.
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| Russia says it won’t tell NASA why a hole appeared in the International Space Station Posted: 23 Sep 2019 03:04 PM PDT  The mystery of why a small hole appeared in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station last year is now somehow even more bizarre than it already was. The hole, which was detected by the crew and patched in space, sparked investigations by Russia's Roscosmos and NASA, with both agencies vowing to get to the bottom of how such a thing could have happened.Now, after months of silence, Roscosmos boss Dmitry Rogozin says he knows how it happened, but that NASA will never find out. It's a bizarre state of affairs that highlights the odd tension that has been building between NASA and the Russian space agency for some time.Initially thought to be the result of a tiny space rock or other debris slamming into the space station at high speeds, it later became clear that the hole had been drilled into the side of the spacecraft. Russia set out to determine when the hole was created, and since it was clear that it wasn't drilled in space, figuring out who drilled the hole back on Earth was a top priority.Early reports out of Russia claimed that a culprit had been determined, but nothing really came of those reports and we never learned of anyone being charged with sabotaging the mission. Had it been merely an accident, it could have been easily explained, but Russia refuses to reveal what actually happened.This is sadly not surprising. Roscosmos has been increasingly moody as of late, and with NASA no longer wanting to pay for seats aboard the Soyuz crew launches to the ISS, and planning on using SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner in the near future, the Russian space program appears to be taking it personally."What happened is clear to us, but we won't tell you anything," Rogozin said in an interview with the state-run news outlet RIA Novosti.This sounds pretty sketchy, but it fits perfectly with Russia's well-documented inferiority complex. The country has long demonstrated a complete inability to admit when something doesn't go according to plan. The decades-old disaster at Chernobyl is obviously the most glaring example, but it's clearly still happening today.Earlier this summer, Russia refused to provide information about a missile explosion that killed at least five scientists, instead choosing to downplay the severity of the incident. With that in mind, holding on to secrets about a hole that mysteriously appeared on the side of a space station used by scientists from Russia, the United States, and several other countries seems perfectly mundane by comparison.In all likelihood, Roscosmos discovered the cause of the damage and, because the truth will make the agency look foolish and incompetent, Rogozin would rather just pretend that it never happened.
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| Thousands rally against Indonesian bill to ban extra-marital sex Posted: 23 Sep 2019 04:57 AM PDT  Thousands of students protested at rallies across Indonesia on Monday against a new criminal code that would outlaw sex outside marriage and gay sex, as lawmakers met the president to discuss how to proceed with a bill that has divided Indonesians. President Joko Widodo on Friday ordered a delay in a planned vote on the controversial bill - originally slated for Tuesday - and said 14 articles needed further review before it was deliberated by a new parliament, whose term begins next month. Students rallied on Monday in the capital Jakarta - where some climbed the gates of the parliament to hang banners - and cities including Yogyakarta, in central Java, and Makassar, on Sulawesi island, to oppose the bill.
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| Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:47 AM PDT  The president lashes out at the Nobel Peace Prize committee for giving the award to his predecessor.
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| #NoFutureNoChildren: Teens are pledging not to have kids until the government acts against climate change Posted: 24 Sep 2019 06:00 AM PDT  Thousands of teenagers are pledging not to have children until the government takes greater steps to steps to combat climate change.
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| Panther stolen from zoo after rescue from French rooftops Posted: 24 Sep 2019 05:12 PM PDT  It appears to be France's most coveted cat: A black panther rescued from rooftops near the northern city of Lille last week has been stolen from the zoo where it was taken after capture, officials said. The feline was seized overnight from the zoo in Maubeuge near the Belgian border, the city's mayor, Arnaud Decagny, told AFP on Tuesday. Firefighters caught the cat last Wednesday as it roamed rooftops in Armentieres after escaping through the window of a private apartment believed to have been its home.
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| A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico as the island braces for another tropical storm Posted: 24 Sep 2019 07:47 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Karen is about to hit Puerto Rico with rain that could cause flooding and landslides, after the island had an earthquake Monday night.
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| Muslim girl ‘forced to remove hijab’ before flight, lawsuit says Posted: 24 Sep 2019 06:05 AM PDT  A Muslim girl who plays for the US national squash team was forced to remove her hijab in public before boarding a flight, a lawsuit claims.Fatima Abdelrahman, who was 12 at the time, was allegedly made to remove the head covering by Air Canada workers at San Francisco International Airport – despite having already been through security.
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| Bill O'Reilly says new book on Trump 'will bring backlash': 'This is his actual life history' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:20 AM PDT  Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly latest book,'The United States of Trump,' is all about the sitting president.
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| Coalition forces in Iraq say attacks 'will not be tolerated' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:30 AM PDT  U.S.-led coalition forces in Baghdad said Tuesday that attacks on coalition personnel and facilities in Iraq "will not be tolerated," adding that coalition forces retain the right to self-defense. No coalition or U.S.-occupied facility was struck in Monday night's attack in which two Katyusha rockets were fired into the heavily fortified Green Zone, according to a statement issued by the coalition and Iraqi security forces. The rockets landed few hundred meters (yards) away from the U.S. Embassy compound's perimeters, triggering alert sirens that sounded across the capital's Tigris River.
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| Meghan Markle shares 'Cinderella moment' with teenager in South Africa: Watch! Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:17 PM PDT  Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle made light of a potentially awkward situation during an engagement in Cape Town.
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| U.S. calls Michael Avenatti request to subpoena Nike a 'fishing expedition' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 08:02 AM PDT  U.S. prosecutors urged a Manhattan federal judge to reject Michael Avenatti's request to subpoena Nike Inc, calling it a "fishing expedition" unrelated to a criminal case accusing the embattled lawyer of extortion. In a letter late on Monday, prosecutors said they and Nike had already turned over 3,360 pages of documents to Avenatti, and the added materials he wanted were irrelevant to his knowledge or state of mind when he allegedly broke the law. Prosecutors accused Avenatti of threatening to publicize claims that Nike arranged for payments to elite college basketball recruits, unless the athletic wear company paid him more than $20 million and hired him to manage an internal probe.
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| Venezuelans accused of smuggling $5 mn in gold into US Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:09 PM PDT  Two Venezuelans have been charged in US federal court with allegedly smuggling $5 million worth of gold bars into the United States in a private airplane. Jean Carlos Sanchez Rojas and Victor Fossi Grieco, who piloted the airplane, were arrested on September 20 at Florida's Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport after US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents discovered the undeclared cargo in the airplane's nose.
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| Haiti: photojournalist shot in face as senator opens fire outside parliament Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:30 AM PDT  * Jean Marie Ralph Féthière draws handgun amid chaotic scenes * Chery Dieu-Nalio avoids serious injury; another man woundedTwo men including a photojournalist have been shot and injured by a Haitian senator who opened fire outside the country's parliament, amid chaotic scenes as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of a new prime minister.Chery Dieu-Nalio, an Associated Press photographer, was wounded in the face and a second man, Leon Leblanc, a security guard and driver, was also injured in the incident in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday.Although doctors were reported to be removing bullet fragments from Dieu-Nalio's face, the injuries are said not to be life-threatening.Before leaving the scene, Leblanc told reporters he had seen Jean Marie Ralph Féthière, a senator from the north of the country, draw a handgun as he tried to leave the parliamentary precincts through a crowd of protesters.Another senator, Patrice Dumont, said Féthière warned the crowd he would shoot if they did not let him leave. Féthière later justified his actions, without actually admitting firing his weapons. He told Radio Mega, "I was attacked by groups of violent militants. They tried to get me out of my vehicle. And so I defended myself. Self-defence is a sacred right."Armed individuals threatened me. It was proportional. Equal force, equal response."He said he did not know a journalist was present, even though Dieu-Nalio was wearing a helmet and flak jacket inscribed with the word "Press".Photojournalist Chery Dieu-Nalio holds a healing gauze next to his mouth. Photograph: Andrés Martínez Casares/ReutersThe incident came as the Haitian senate attempted to meet for the second time in two days to confirm the appointment of a new prime minister, Fritz-William Michel.President Jovenel Moïse is attempting to force through the appointment so he can leave the country to speak at the UN this week. His departure has already been delayed since Sunday.Haiti has been convulsed for a week by demonstrations against Moïse and the government, strengthened by fury at a serious fuel shortage and the rising cost of living.Protesters have blocked roads the length and breadth of the Caribbean nation, using trees, rocks, burning tyres and cars and trucks.Michel's nomination has already caused violence in the parliament, with politicians hitting each other with chairs and fists in the national assembly.Two years into his five-year term, Moïse is widely discredited. Annual per capita income is $350 a year and inflation is currently standing at 19%. Fuel price rises and their associated effect on food, have left Haitians to the point of despair.Even before the recent wave of unrest, Haitians have been saying the current situation is more serious than the Duvalier dictatorships, the US invasion or the 2010 earthquake. "I can't remember a situation this bad," said Leslie Voltaire, a former presidential candidate and adviser to two former presidents.Tensions had been rising outside the senate since early on Monday.The senate president, Carl Murat Cantave, had given instructions to the police that only senators would be allowed in to the senate precinct with one driver and two police-appointed security agents.People run as Haiti's Senator Jean Marie Ralph Féthière holds a gun in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photograph: Andrés Martínez Casares/ReutersWithin hours he was criticising the police on Radio Magik9, saying they could not contain the crowds and there was chaos in the yard. Separately the senator Jean Rigaud Belizaire complained the senate's rooms had been smeared with a liquid resembling faeces.Senators, realising that the session would not happen and the ratification would have to be delayed again, began trying to leave to shouts of "thief, thief, thief."Cantave himself was reported to be confined to parliament, having to retreat in his car under a barrage of rocks.In a separate incident, in the town of Gonaïves, the offices of Cantave's foundation were attacked and destroyed.Demonstrators continue to move through Port-au-Prince, as rumours swirled that there would be other attempts, possibly at another location, to ratify Michel.
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| Meet the F-4 Phantom: This 60-Year-Old Fighter Jet Won't Stop for Anyone Posted: 23 Sep 2019 09:54 PM PDT  The story of the legendary F-4 Phantom II.
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| A woman caught a rare flesh-eating bacteria from a manicure, and doctors had to remove chunks of her thumb Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:09 AM PDT  The infection can be deadly if not caught early and treated. The woman's doctor said she was lucky she didn't need her arm amputated.
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| Trump slammed for trolling Greta Thunberg climate speech Posted: 24 Sep 2019 10:17 AM PDT  Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg responded to US President Donald Trump's mocking of her online by embracing his words on her Twitter page Tuesday. Trump stirred up fresh outrage on social media late Monday with a tweet that sneered at an impassioned speech made by the 16-year-old at the UN climate summit in New York. "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.
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| Correction: Social Security Fraud story Posted: 24 Sep 2019 10:06 AM PDT  In a story Sept. 23 about a new lawsuit over federal disability benefits for former clients of Eric Conn, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a federal appeals court ruling in November restored benefits for about 300 of Eric Conn's former clients. The federal appeals court ruling paved the way for the restoration of benefits. A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a group of people who lost federal disability benefits after their lawyer was arrested for fraud.
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| With military parade, Iran warns U.S. and other Western forces to leave the Persian Gulf Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:38 AM PDT  As Iran paraded its troops and its arsenal of various weapons Sunday, the country's president demanded the U.S. and other Western nations leave the Persian Gulf.
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| Man's brain tumor was misdiagnosed as mental illness for six years Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:55 AM PDT  A New Zealand man who was told he had a mental illness learned that he, in fact, had a brain tumor.
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| Saudi to consider 'all options' in response to attack on oil facilities: official Posted: 24 Sep 2019 12:21 PM PDT  Saudi Arabia believes Iran conducted the recent attacks on its oil facilities and will consider a military response once its investigation is complete, the kingdom's minister of state for foreign affairs said on Tuesday. Jubeir said the United Nations was helping it identify the launch site for the Sept. 14 attacks, which temporarily knocked out over 5 percent of global oil production and sent petroleum prices spiking higher. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saudi's Abqaiq and Khurais facilities, but both Riyadh and Washington have laid the blame on Iran.
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| Huawei exec in Canada court seeking to quash extradition Posted: 23 Sep 2019 07:53 PM PDT  Top Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers went to court on Monday to try to have her extradition case thrown out, arguing that her rights were violated. The United States wants to put Meng on trial for fraud for allegedly violating Iran sanctions and lying about it to US banks -- accusations her lawyers dispute. Meng -- a rising star whose father Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei and over three decades grew it into a global telecom giant -- expressed surprise when told she was being arrested, according to a transcript of her speaking with authorities after her flight from Hong Kong landed.
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| The Secret Reason America's Military Dominates: Nazi Weapons Tech? Posted: 23 Sep 2019 04:30 AM PDT  Before the guns fell silent in 1945, the Allies had already drawn up plans for gathering as much German technology as they could take. What did they find?
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| Pakistan trained al-Qaeda, says Imran Khan Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:17 AM PDT  Pakistan's army and military spy agency trained al-Qaeda and then maintained links with the militants afterwards, Imran Khan has said. Pakistan's prime minister said his country had then made a major mistake siding with America during the war on terror after the 9/11 attacks. The decision had cost 60,000 Pakistani lives as the country battled Islamist militancy and Pakistan would have been better staying neutral. Mr Khan's comments at a New York think tank came ahead of his speech at the United Nations general assembly this week where he is expected to press the case for international action against India over Kashmir. He has also held meetings with Donald Trump trying to get the American president to restart talks with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. Pakistan PM: "The Pakistani Army, ISI, trained al-Qaida and all these troops to fight in Afghanistan. There were always links between—there had to be links, because they trained them." pic.twitter.com/BZ61P4tgxu— Miraqa Popal (@MiraqaPopal) September 24, 2019 Asked at the Council for Foreign Relations about how Osama bin Laden had managed to stay in Pakistan undiscovered, Mr Khan said: "The Pakistani Army, ISI [military spy agency], trained al-Qaida and all these troops to fight in Afghanistan. " There were always links between—there had to be links, because they trained them." He said the links were "probably at lower levels", and he did not believe military chiefs had known of Bin Laden's presence. Mr Khan's comments may anger the military. Pakistan's security apparatus has in the past angrily rejected politicians linking it to militancy. Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister, faced treason charges last year after an interview where he suggested the Pakistani state played a role in the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people. Mr Khan said that after the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan had done a 180 degree turn against former militants, to side with America. " I opposed this from day one," Mr Khan said. "I said we had first trained these guys to fight jihad and it was a great idea, and now we are telling the same groups it's terrorism. So we should at least have stayed neutral. Pakistan, by joining the US after 9/11, committed one of the biggest blunders." Mr Khan also said he believed the Taliban had changed since they were ousted in 2001 and were willing to make peace He said: "This is—Taliban realise that they cannot control the whole of Afghanistan. The Afghan government knows that they cannot—you know, there needs to be some sort of a peace deal. There has to be a political settlement."
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| Greta Thunberg changes her Twitter bio to Trump quote Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:17 AM PDT  Will Greta Thunberg be the hero who saves the word "clapback?"Less than a day after Donald Trump mocked her impassioned speech at the U.N. Climate Summit, Thunberg took a subtle dig back at the president by changing her Twitter bio to the text of his tweet: "A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future."> Greta claps back - subtly, of course - in her Twitter bio pic.twitter.com/VrR6kvvzeV> > -- Lauren Gambino (@laurenegambino) September 24, 2019SEE ALSO: Greta Thunberg scolds apathetic grown-ups at U.N. Climate SummitIt's clear that Trump's comment was intended to paint Thunberg, who reprimanded world leaders angrily on Monday for failing her generation on climate change, as overly dramatic. (She is not.) > She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO> > -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019But Thunberg's response asserts that Trump, as usual, is wrong: Her activism is filled with emotion and force precisely because a better world -- a "bright and wonderful future" -- is possible. It's just that world leaders, despite their immense power, aren't doing anything to make it a reality.
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| Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia Posted: 23 Sep 2019 12:40 PM PDT  Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond allegesthe department is violating the First Amendment by using curtains to block witnesses from seeing "crucial steps" in carrying out a lethal injection or electrocution — the two execution methods allowed under state law. "These limits on witnesses's ability to view Virginia's executions severely curtail the public's ability to understand how those executions are administered, or to assess whether a particular execution violates either the Constitution or the state's prescribed execution procedures, or is otherwise botched," the news organizations state in the lawsuit.
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| Jessica Simpson has lost 100 lbs in 6 months: 'Yes, I tipped the scales at 240' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:49 AM PDT  During her third pregnancy, Jessica Simpson 'tipped the scales at 240,' but she's spent the last six months getting back on track.
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| Japan refers US military pilot to prosecutors over Osprey crash Posted: 24 Sep 2019 12:27 AM PDT  Japanese authorities on Tuesday referred the case of a US military pilot to prosecutors over the 2016 crash of an Osprey aircraft that fuelled sentiment against a US base on Okinawa island. The crash did not kill anyone and only caused injuries to two of the five crew members aboard the US Marine MV-22 Osprey. The Pentagon described the December 2016 crash as a "mishap", which saw the plane end up in shallow water off Okinawa.
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| Why the Syria's Kurdish Militia Can't Do What Washington Wants Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:24 AM PDT  The YPG is a bad regional partner and its chances of declaring a military victory against a regular army is rather low.
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| Florida officer who arrested 2 elementary school children fired; charges dropped Posted: 24 Sep 2019 07:45 AM PDT  Chief Orlando Rolón said Officer Dennis Turner didn't follow department policy requiring him to get approval before arresting minors younger than 12.
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| Greta Thunberg overshadows Trump at U.N. climate summit Posted: 23 Sep 2019 03:42 PM PDT  The Swedish teenager delivers a blistering critique of countries like the United States for not addressing climate change.
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| A doctor and nurse are under investigation in South Korea after mistakenly performing an abortion on the wrong woman Posted: 24 Sep 2019 08:50 AM PDT  South Korean police said the abortion was due to a mix-up in patient medical records at a hospital in Seoul last month.
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| Unearthed Gandhi WWII letter wishes Jews 'era of peace' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 10:01 AM PDT  The National Library of Israel recently unearthed the 80-year-old handwritten letter during a massive review of millions of its archival documents. It was publishing it online Tuesday for the first time, offering a glimpse into the father of modern India's complex relationship with the Holocaust. "You have my good wishes for your new year," Gandhi wrote to Avraham Shohet, the head of the Bombay Zionist Association, on Sept. 1, 1939.
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| Meghan Markle shakes up royal tradition with casual denim look in South Africa Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:26 AM PDT  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's second day of the royal tour of Africa has kicked off with a few breaks to royal protocol!
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