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Sentebale, the Charity Prince Harry Co-Founded, Is Now Suing Him for Defamation in the High Court

The Lesotho- and Botswana-based charity confirmed Friday that it filed defamation proceedings against Harry and his friend Mark Dyer on March 24, alleging the two engineered a year-long media and cyber-bullying campaign that began the day they resigned as patrons.

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Swedish Trial Opens Into Husband Who Allegedly Sold His Wife to 120 Men While Fostering Children

Ångermanlands tingsrätt began hearing case B 2770-25 on Friday, a three-year investigation into a man charged with gross pimping, rape, and assault after he allegedly drugged and filmed his wife for sale. Twenty-six men have also been charged with buying sex from her.

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Sudan Enters Year Four of War as World's Largest Displacement Crisis at 14 Million

The Sudan war reaches its third anniversary on April 15 with roughly one in four Sudanese forced from home. UNHCR now ranks Sudan above Syria as the single largest forced displacement situation on the planet.

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Peru Votes Sunday With Record 35 Candidates, No Frontrunner Above 16%

A record-breaking presidential field, a June runoff almost everyone already expects, and more than half the electorate blank or undecided as electoral silence began Monday.

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Xi Meets KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun in Beijing, First CCP-KMT Leaders' Meeting in Nearly a Decade

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted Chinese Nationalist Party chair Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on April 10, calling Taiwan independence 'the chief culprit destroying peace' while welcoming cross-strait exchanges. It is the first meeting between sitting leaders of the two parties in nearly ten years.

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M7.4 Earthquake Off Indonesia's Ternate Triggers Tsunami Waves at Five Coastal Stations

A shallow thrust earthquake in the Molucca Sea on April 1 generated tsunami waves up to 0.75m observed by BMKG, followed by a M6.2 aftershock and at least 77 smaller tremors in the nine days since.

WorldApr 10

New preprint argues Kepler's sub-Neptune exoplanets hide a 'valley' in their orbital distances, pointing to standing waves in protoplanetary disks

A two-paper preprint series from Li Zeng (Harvard) and collaborators re-analyzes Kepler mission data and reports a deficit of sub-Neptunes at specific orbital distances. The authors interpret the pattern as evidence of standing waves in the protoplanetary disks where planets form, analogous to the ring structures ALMA has imaged at larger scales.

WorldApr 10

Bipartisan House bill would create a Taiwan undersea cable protection initiative, authorize $120M and new sanctions against saboteurs

HR 8177, introduced April 2 by Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY) with two Democratic cosponsors, directs the State Department to establish a Taiwan Critical Undersea Infrastructure Resilience Initiative and authorizes sanctions against foreign persons responsible for cable sabotage.

WorldApr 10

UK tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, Defence Secretary Healey says: 'We see you'

The Ministry of Defence disclosed on April 9 a weeks-long tracking operation against a Russian Akula-class attack submarine and two specialist GUGI deep-sea vessels. A separate 10-day operation shadowed a Kilo-class submarine through the English Channel and North Sea.

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Scientists document the first clear 'civil war' in wild chimpanzees after a 200-member community split in two

A Science paper published April 9 traces a rare permanent group fission among the Ngogo chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, Uganda -- followed by seven years of lethal raids that killed 24 chimpanzees and left 14 more missing.

WorldApr 10

Forecasters split on 2026 hurricane season as El Nino battles record ocean heat

CSU and TSR predict a quiet Atlantic season suppressed by El Nino. The University of Arizona predicts 20 named storms, arguing warm ocean temperatures will override it -- exactly what happened in 2023.

WorldApr 10

174 Million Indians Vote Across Three States; Assam's Voter Roll Purge Leaves Thousands Unable to Cast Ballots

Elections in Assam (126 seats), Kerala (140 seats), and Puducherry (30 seats) drew turnout above 78% on April 9. In Assam, where the BJP fielded zero Muslim candidates despite Muslims being 34% of the population, 243,000 names were removed from electoral rolls in a targeted revision the chief minister publicly called a 'pressure tactic.' Results are due May 4.