Royal wedding 2018: Royal Family thanks public
The Royal Family has thanked those who travelled to Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Thousands of people lined the streets to see the couple on their big day, with many more watching the ceremony on television around the globe.
The wedding celebrations ended with a black-tie dinner and fireworks display at Frogmore House, near Windsor Castle.
Two hundred of Meghan and Harry's closest friends and family attended the event held by Prince Charles.
As a wedding gift Prince Harry gave his bride an emerald-cut aquamarine ring which had belonged to his late mother - Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Royal Family's twitter account posted a message of thanks to those who followed the wedding from the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world.
Malaysia: Najib Razak to face anti-graft investigators as pressure mounts
Former PM is under fire over alleged looting of state funds as police raids on his home force his wife to issue a statement denouncing media coverage
Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak has been asked to make a statement on Tuesday to anti-corruption investigators as he comes under renewed pressure about claims that he looted state funds when in power.
As his wife was forced to make a statement through her lawyers about reports of her extravagant lifestyle, Najib also faces the possible reopening of a years-long scandal involving, kickbacks, a murdered Mongolian model and his one-time close associate.
On Saturday, Mongolia’s president asked Malaysia’s new leader, Mahathir Mohamad, to find justice for the dead woman, Altantuya Shaariibuu, while a fugitive policeman convicted of the crime said he would cooperate with any new investigation if he was given a full pardon.
Maduro likely to win re-election despite Venezuela's economic crisis
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expected to win a second six-year term in Sunday’s election, despite a deepening crisis that’s made food scarce and inflation soar as oil production plummets in the once wealthy nation.
More than 1 million Venezuelans have abandoned their country for a better life abroad in recent years, while those staying behind wait in line for hours to buy subsidized food and withdraw cash that’s almost impossible to find.
While polls show Venezuelans overwhelmingly blame Maduro for their mounting troubles, he’s still heavily favored to win thanks to a boycott of the election by his main rivals amid huge distrust of the nation’s electoral council, which is controlled by government loyalists.
Nobel IgnominyLiterature, Lust and Lies at the Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy will not be awarding a Nobel prize in literature this year. And a closer look at the swamp of scandal in Stockholm raises doubts as to whether it can ever be rehabilitated.
By Georg Diez
Things are just fine -- until they suddenly aren't anymore. Then, everyone turns around and looks back in amazement at the human destruction and shards of shattered dignity left behind. At the moral morass. And they wonder: How could we have believed that everything would turn out alright?
That is the abridged version of the story of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel prize in literature. It is the kind of bitter farce that might result if August Strindberg were to emerge from the grave to watch the dandies from the academy pelt each other with champagne glasses. And Strindberg, whose path to early 20th century literary greatness in Sweden was filled with hatred and scorn, likely wouldn't even find it possible to hate them, as consumed as he would be with disdain.
Turkish elections: Erdogan to hold rally in Sarajevo
Turkey's president turns to Bosnia for votes, after EU countries banned Turkey from campaigning among its diaspora.by Mersiha Gadzo
After three EU countries banned Turkish politicians from campaigning on their soil, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to rally in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday.
Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) decided to hold a rally in Bosnia's capital afterAustria, the Netherlands, and Germany - home to Turkey's largest diaspora - announced that Turkish politicians were not welcome to campaign there.
Erdogan's rally in Sarajevo - the only one to be held in Europe - comes ahead of the snap Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections, set for June 24.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF JAPAN’S SECRET SPY AGENCY
Ryan Gallagher
EVERY WEEK IN Tokyo’s Ichigaya district, about two miles east of the bright neon lights and swarming crowds in the heart of Shibuya, a driver quietly parks a black sedan-style car outside a gray office building. Before setting off on a short 10-minute drive south, he picks up a passenger who is carrying an important package: top-secret intelligence reports, destined for the desks of the prime minister’s closest advisors.
Known only as “C1,” the office building is located inside a high-security compound that houses Japan’s Ministry of Defense. But it is not an ordinary military facility – it is a secret spy agency headquarters for the Directorate for Signals Intelligence, Japan’s version of the National Security Agency.
The directorate has a history that dates back to the 1950s; its role is to eavesdrop on communications. But its operations remain so highly classified that the Japanese government has disclosed little about its work – even the location of its headquarters. Most Japanese officials, except for a select few of the prime minister’s inner circle, are kept in the dark about the directorate’s activities, which are regulated by a limited legal framework and not subject to any independent oversight.
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