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Meghan Markle, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, embraced the festive spirit as she carried out a solo official engagement on Tuesday (December 18), a day after her father had made headlines by pleading with her to get in touch with him. Meghan, 37, who is expecting her first … Read more via...

Theresa May’s government has finally unveiled its plans for UK immigration policy after Brexit. The plans, published with just 100 days until the UK’s departure from the European Union, seeks to overhaul the current system, with EU migrants set to be treated the … Read more via Pulse Ghana...

Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced that he’s making New York weed legalization a priority in 2019. "Let’s legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all," Governor Cuomo said in a speech detailing his plans for his first 100 days in office. Not only are New Yorkers …...

Kenya could lose the ports of Mombasa to the Chinese government if Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) defaults in the payment of Sh227 billion owed to Exim Bank of China. The government borrowed the billions to construct the Mombasa-Nairobi standard … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

Tinder has fired its VP of marketing and communications, Rosette Pambakian, and a "number" of other employees who participated in a $2 billion lawsuit against the dating app’s owners, according to a report by The Verge . Tinder employees involved in the lawsuit, including … Read more via...

After more than 150 years, Germany’s last black coal mine will close in the Ruhr region, posing a gigantic geological and environmental challenge to the former industrial heartland. The Prosper-Haniel mine’s galleries were painstakingly excavated over decades by workers with pickaxes and later...