The contest to replace António Guterres as U.N. secretary general has been jolted by last-minute entrants and deep divisions among members of the Security Council.
In his twilight years, the British monarch is embracing his role as a global statesman, even when that involves heavy rain and difficult questions about his nation’s history.
King Charles III, left, gestures while walking in the rain with Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier General Telbert Benjamin of Antigua and Barbuda at the annual Independence Ceremonial Parade at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, in November.
The government said the risk to the British public from the disease was low. The current outbreak in Africa has spread widely across the continent, killing more than 5,000 people.
He was a celebrity stylist to rock stars and royalty whose blockbuster product, Frizz Ease, changed his fortunes (and women’s hair) forever. He was 75.
John Frieda in 2008. He made his name as a young assistant stylist in Mayfair in the late 1960s and then made a fortune with a blockbuster product called Frizz Ease.
The government designated the protest group as a terrorist organization last year, prompting criticism. The country’s Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the ban on Wednesday.
The monarch called Britain’s trafficking of enslaved people from Africa a “shameful chapter of history” at a meeting of Commonwealth heads of government in Antigua.
During the king’s visits to three former colonies, many people came out for celebratory parades and events. Others said the British state needed to atone for slavery’s toll.
King Charles III of Britain took part in a parade with the agriculture minister of the Bahamas, Jomo Campbell, center left, and the cultural minister, Leslia Miller-Brice, center right, during a cultural festival in Nassau, Bahamas, in October.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, at Balmoral, the royal family’s Scottish retreat.
Two British men were charged Tuesday over a suspected plot targeting a base used by the United States. Prosecutors believe they were directed by a man working for Iran.