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A video showing Saudi Arabia’s former justice minister Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa leading a prayer at Auschwitz to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp has gone viral on Twitter. According to a press release, Issa who is also the secretary general of Makkah-based Muslim World League, made the “groundbreaking joint visit” along with American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris. The press release issued by the AJC said that Issa led a delegation of 62 Muslims, including 25 prominent religious leaders. The group claimed that it marked the first time that a senior Islamic leadership delegation visited Auschwitz or any Nazi German death camp. The visit was part of a memorandum of understanding signed between AJC and MWL in April last year at the AJC headquarters in New York. “To be here, among the children of Holocaust survivors and members of the Jewish and Islamic communities, is both a sacred duty and a profound honour. The unconscionable crimes to which we bear witness today are truly crimes against humanity. That is to say, a violation of us all, an affront to all of God’s creation,” said the former Saudi minister. The AJC delegation comprised 24 people, including AJC President Harriet Schleifer, past president John Shapiro and his wife, Dr Shonni Silverberg, and Roberta Baruch and Steven Zelkowitz, members of AJC’s Executive Council. We are deeply moved to be the hosts for such an unprecedented visit. — American Jewish Council president. “Visiting this sacred place, understanding what transpired at Auschwitz, is vital to preserving the memory of the Jewish, and non-Jewish, victims of the Nazis and striving to ensure that such horrors never happen again,” said Harris, who is also a son of Holocaust survivors. “We are deeply moved to be the hosts for such an unprecedented visit. This creates the chance not only to deepen understanding of the unparalleled crime that took place here but also to build bridges of friendship and cooperation between Muslims and Jews in pursuit of a more humane and safer world for all,” said the AJC president. “By paying tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, we not only honour the dead but celebrate the living. Throughout the visit, stories of our shared humanity showed through the horror. I was amazed by stories of some individual Muslims who sought to save Jews from the Holocaust at great personal risk in Europe and North Africa. These precious men and women represent the true values of Islam. And today’s visit by the AJC and MWL is made in the spirit of this noble tradition of brotherhood, peace, and love,” remarked Issa after a ceremony and memorial prayers for the victims of the Nazi concentration camp. What Is Auschwitz? Auschwitz was a Polish army barracks in southern Poland which was later turned into a jail in 1940 for political prisoners following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939. Initially, the former barracks had only one camp, known as Auschwitz I. However, as the second world war and the Holocaust progressed, the Adolf Hitler-led regime developed more camps for various reasons at the site. When Auschwitz was eventually liberated by the Soviet Union, the jail had over 40 camps and subcamps, according to the BBC.

Beautiful platformer Ori and the Blind Forest remains one of the best metroidvania games on PC, and in 2017, developer Moon Studios teased a sequel called Ori and the Will of the Wisps. In interviews and trailers, the devs have talked about how the sequel differs from the first game—we’re told there will be improvements to combat—and at E3 2019 we finally got a concrete release date. We'll dive into all of those details below. Here's everything you need to know about Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Release Date Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a release date of February 11, 2020. It will launch on the Xbox Game Pass for PC (and, presumably, the Microsoft Store). What Is It? A direct sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest, the brilliant, colourful, challenging metroidvania from 2015. Expect the same mix of precise platforming and exploration, and as you unlock new skills you'll backtrack through stunning side-scrolling scenery to reach previously inaccessible areas. Will of the Wisps puts far more emphasis on combat than the original—Ori has a new suite of weapons and abilities, including swords, bows and explosive projectiles. What`s The Story? Moon Studios is keeping a tight lid on the story for now. All we know is you'll "unravel Ori's destiny", and that you'll venture beyond the forest of Nibel—the titular setting of the original game. The devs have also repeatedly promised an emotional story, so keep a pack of tissues nearby. Ori And The Will of The Wisps E3 2019 Trailer The game's E3 trailer showcased some of the more monstrous enemies Ori will face, including a giant spider and a humongous fire-breathing grub. Ori Has Far More Options In Combat Than In The Blind Forest Combat in Ori and the Blind Forest lacked variety: it was essentially one big button mash. Fights in Will of the Wisp will be much more deliberate. Moon Studios cite Dark Souls as an inspiration—not for its difficulty, but for the way you'll have to learn an enemy's attack patterns and exploit their weaknesses, rather than just wading in, sword waggling. And, unlike in Blind Forest, you'll actually have a sword to waggle this time around, alongside other weapons. Ori has three slots for weapons and skills—assigned to three face buttons if you're using a controller—and you can swap them out at any time. They include a fast-swinging Spirit Sword, a powerful hammer, a bow, a slow powerful projectile and an explosive spirit bomb. Some non-combat skills fit into these slots too, which will let you customise your playstyle. You might swap out a weapon for a healing ability, for example. “An influence behind this is actually Diablo,” Moon Studios CEO Thmas Mahler told the Daily Star. “A lot of us grew up playing Diablo, and it’s really cool to play as the Paladin or the Rogue and be able to go back and have different playstyles each time. Ori has replayability, we wanted to use that and let you think about your build every time you play." There Are More Movement Abilities, Too As well as being more lethal, Ori is more agile this time around. Double jumps and dashes return, but you also now have a grappling hook to swing through levels, as well as a "burrow" skill that lets you dive through sand, reaching areas beneath. If you burrow and then boost back out through the surface, you'll jump higher than usual, landing on hard-to-reach platforms. It also doubles as an attack that lets you damage enemies from below. You'll be able to use these abilities whenever you like after you find them. You Can Upgrade All Your Abilities You upgrade all combat and movement abilities as you progress—you can make your bow fire multiple projectiles rather than just one, for example. Abilities will have a number of different possible upgrades. You Can Customise Your Character Build By Equipping "Shards" The devs have consistently highlighted the freedom Will of the Wisps gives players to tweak their loadouts. As well as swapping out skills and picking up new movement abilities, you'll find upgradeable "shards" hidden throughout the world that change how Ori behaves. One is a compass that points you towards the next objective; another grants you a triple jump. Some have trade-offs: one shard will boost your weapon damage, but reduce the number of hits you can take before you die. You have four shard slots, and you can swap them out at any time. It's a flexible replacement for Ori and the Blind Forest's ability tree, which locked you into certain upgrade branches. NPCs And Side Quests Ori and the Blind Forest was a relatively lonely game, and Will of the Wisps will have far more NPCs. These characters will sell you goodies and hand out side quests, such as asking you to retrieve a particular item. Difficulty Some players found Ori and the Blind Forest too punishing, something Moon Studios is keen to address in Will of the Wisps. But rather than just making the game easier across the board, they'll instead let you escape tricky situations and return later. Blind Forest locked you into certain areas, which meant you were stuck if you couldn't work out how to progress. In Will of the Wisps, you'll be able to back away from a sticky situation, setting off to explore a different part of the world. Once you've found some new abilities, or upgraded your current ones, you can return, and have a better chance of making it through. Will of The Wisps Is Still A Side-Scroller, But There`s More Depth Than Before Ori and the Will of the Wisps looks even more gorgeous than the first game, and that's saying something. The art style is much the same—a lush colour palette and stylish bursts of light—but it looks more three-dimensional than before. Big enemies will stomp onto the screen from the background, and the team has built a new physics-based lighting engine to make the world feel more layered. It looks fantastic, if you ask us. Ori And The Will of The Wisps Will Have Asynchronous Multiplayer Time Trials In certain locations, Ori will find Spirit Trials, which are new to the series. They're time trials where you must zoom, dash and grapple your way through a section of level as fast as you can. Your run is uploaded to the cloud, and you can view the "ghosts" of friends who have completed the trials, racing against them for the best time. You can check out some footage of a Spirit Trial below. Moon Studios Hired The Creator of AM2R As A Designer Remember, AM2R? It was a fan remake of Metroid 2 that was shut down a few days after its 2016 release by Nintendo's legal department. Moon Studios were so impressed with the game that they asked the creator, Milton ‘DoctorM64’ Guasti, to work on Will of the Wisps. He's been a designer for the game since the summer of 2017.

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The Rohingya remain “at serious risk of genocide,” the International Court of Justice said in its ruling, ordering Myanmar to curb violence against the Muslim community. Mostly Muslim Gambia launched a lawsuit in November at the United Nations’ highest body for disputes between states, accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya in violation of a 1948 convention. Thursday’s ruling dealt only with Gambia’s request for so-called preliminary measures, the equivalent of a restraining order for states. While the court’s final decision could take years to reach, the 17 judge panel made clear in a unanimous ruling that the court believes the Rohingya are in danger now, and steps must be taken to protect them. The Rohingya remain “at serious risk of genocide,” presiding Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf said, reading a summary of the decision. Myanmar shall “take all measures within its power to prevent all acts” prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, the ruling said. Myanmar must report back within four months. It ordered the government of Myanmar to exercise influence over its military and other armed groups to prevent “killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life intended to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after a military-led crackdown in 2017, and were forced into squalid camps across the border in Bangladesh. U.N. investigators concluded that the military campaign had been executed with “genocidal intent”. Moments before the court in The Hague began reading its ruling, the Financial Times published an article by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in which she said war crimes may have been committed against Rohingya Muslims but that refugees had exaggerated the abuses against them. During a week of hearings last month, Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, had asked the judges to drop the case. The World Court’s rulings are final and without appeal, although it has no real way of enforcing them. ‘EXTREMELY VULNERABLE‘ “The court is of the opinion that the Rohingya in Myanmar remain extremely vulnerable,” said Yusuf, the presiding judge. “Moreover, the court is of the opinion that the steps which [Myanmar] claimed to have taken to facilitate the return of Rohingya refugees present in Bangladesh, to promote ethnic reconciliation, peace and stability in Rakhine State, and to make its military accountable for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, do not appear sufficient.” More than 100 Myanmar civil society groups published a statement saying they hoped international justice efforts would “bring forth the truth” and end impunity. “Political and military policies have always been imposed with violent force and intimidation upon the people of Myanmar, systematically and institutionally, on the basis of their political and religious beliefs and ethnic identities and continue until the present,” the statement said. “We understand very clearly that the ICJ case against Myanmar is directed toward those responsible for using political power and military might, and not to the people of Myanmar.”

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SAN FRANCISCO: Netflix said Tuesday it added millions of new subscribers globally over the past quarter as it prepared up for a tougher competitive landscape, but scaled back its outlook for early 2020. The global television streaming giant beat expectations with a profit of $587 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 as revenue rose 31 percent from a year ago to $5.5 billion. Netflix added a better-than-expected 8.8 million subscribers worldwide to hit 167 million, but growth in North America was below forecasts with 550,000 new members, including 420,000 in the United States. After-hours trading showed Netflix shares in a narrow range, dipping slightly and then rising about 2.2 percent. Netflix said it expects to add around seven million new subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, well below the level logged in a record-setting quarter a year ago. "We have seen some elevated churn in the US from combination of pricing and competition," chief financial officer Spence Neumann said during an earnings interview.. "We anticipate that competition to roll out globally throughout the year, so we are trying to be prudent thinking about the impact throughout the business." Traditional TV in trouble? The California-based company scaled back expectations for the current quarter, with nascent services such as Apple TV+, Disney+ and soon-to-launch rivals such as NBC´s Peacock now competing for viewers. With so many media and tech companies wading into streaming services, a cultural shift from "linear" television consumption — such as through cable services — to streaming entertainment could be on the horizon, according to Netflix executives. "We've had the same strategy basically for 20 years — please our members and they help us grow," Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said in an earnings interview. "In the next decade, expect to use the great resources we have to do even better." Netflix, whose hit original shows include The Crown, and Stranger Things, is strong in many global markets outside of its stronger competition in the US, having bolstered its lineup of international shows. Analyst Eric Haggstrom of eMarketer said Netflix "ended 2019 on a strong note with new subscriber additions above expectations" but faces challenges. "Netflix will need to continue to produce hit shows as Disney, Apple, HBO and others launch and scale new services," Haggstrom said. "Netflix´s scale allows it to reach mass audiences, which makes it easier for them to create hits when compared to newcomers to the market." Hastings considered Disney+ more of a threat to traditional cable television services than Netflix. "Disney is going to be a global service quite quickly, but there are many global services," Hastings said. "We compete a lot for viewing with YouTube, and viewing per member is up — that is all coming from linear TV." Netflix noted that it is changing the way it calculates the po[CENSORED]rity of shows. Previously, 70 percent or more of a film or television show had to be watch to count as being viewed at a household. Under the new method, a show will only need to play for at least two minutes for a view to be counted, deemed "long enough to indicate the choice was intentional," Netflix said in a letter released with the earnings figures. "Given that we now have titles with widely varying lengths — we believe that reporting households viewing a title based on 70 percent of a single episode of a series or of an entire film, which we have been doing, makes less sense," Netflix said. The new method is similar to the way YouTube counts views, and results in viewer counts being about 35 percent higher, according to Netflix. No plans for ads Hastings held firm that Netflix has no plans to get into the online advertising business, saying the company is not interested in battling with Amazon, Facebook and Google in that market. "We are really focused on just making our members happy," Hastings said. "We want to be the safe respite where you can enjoy, be stimulated, have fun and relax with none of the controversy around exploiting users with advertising."

Doom Eternal is exhausting. After playing it for three hours, I felt like my nervous system needed a vacation. Any good first-person shooter demands something from your reflexes, learning how to land headshots and juggle guns while dodging incoming fire, but that's basically just learning how to breathe in Doom Eternal. Properly operating your entire body—and staying alive—is a whole lot harder. Eternal's goal is to give you superpowers and then force you to learn how to use them instinctively, or you die Doom Eternal on Ultraviolence, its 'hard' difficulty, is the most stressed I've been playing a game in a long time, because almost every fight had me feeling like I was on the ragged edge. It's been a couple years since I played any of id Software's 2016 Doom, the surprisingly great reboot that Eternal is following up on, but I don't remember it feeling like this. Doom was fast, rabid, and satisfying in its brutality and the ways it encouraged aggression to stay alive. You had to perform melee 'glory kills' to wrench life-refilling power-ups from enemies, and you'd pull out the chainsaw at key moments to turn an enemy into a geyser of blood and ammo refills. Eternal starts at a level of intensity Doom may have reached towards the end. The sequel gives you those basic tools in the first five minutes, and then it keeps layering on more for the first three hours (and likely beyond). Honestly, it's overwhelming, but Eternal's goal here is to essentially give you access to superpowers and then force you to learn how to use them instinctively, or you die. It's definitely following the Crank: High Voltage playbook on how to make a sequel. At least on hard, all the enemies except the shambling fodder move fast, are aggressive, and can tear you to pieces in seconds, which means constantly closing range to get melee glory kills that restore your health becomes second nature. But that's hardly enough to keep you alive for long. The biggest source of tension, for me, was remembering to use each of the new cooldown abilities Eternal introduces while also monitoring my weapons swapping between weapons when needed. There's now a grenade you can use to soften up a group of enemies, and later you can swap it out for a cryo grenade that freezes them instead. Heavier demons have weak spots that the grenade can help you destroy, robbing them of major damage potential or even opening them up for a glory kill. If you don't remember to use the grenade when it's off cooldown, you're probably dead, because Doom Eternal throws a lot of enemies at you at once. There's a dash move now that you can use twice in a row. If you don't use it constantly you're probably dead, because Doom Eternal's enemies are aggressive, and they're fast. More than once I embarrassed myself by missing shotgun blasts at imps as they leaped circles around me faster than I could track them. There's the flame belch, which sets enemies on fire, and while they're on fire, you can shoot them to get armor pickups, in the same way glory kills give you help. If you don't remember to use the flame belch constantly, you're definitely dead. That armor is essential. Then there's your actual weapons, staples like the shotgun and heavy cannon and plasma rifle, which each have mods that can save your ass in the right situation. One time I vented the built-up heat from my plasma rifle to blast out a shockwave that saved me from a Hell Knight who was getting ready to knock my head off. I was constantly switching between guns to use whatever was best in the moment, or because I'd just run out of ammo for one and was scrambling to stay alive. Within the first three hours I had all of the above, plus the rocket launcher, and I'd been introduced to a handful of other powerup systems. There are relics which give you special abilities, like the 'blood punch,' which you charge up by performing glory kills. It gives your punch an extra area of effect and deals a lot more damage, so you can One Punch Man your way through a crowd. There's an upgrade system for those relics. There are also suit upgrade points, which can be spent on enhancements like vacuuming power-ups in from further away or lowering ability cooldowns. And you can upgrade weapon mods, leading to a fully decked-out gun can then get some kind of final special power boost. It's a lot. Eternal doesn't hesitate to throw all these systems at you in the first three hours, like a sadistic juggling instructor lobbing live chainsaws at you. It's bold, not the way most triple-A videogames would do it, and I admire the chutzpah even if a smoother ramp up would've been more pleasant. You can feel how eager id's designers were to give you everything, rather than slowly re-tell the origin story of becoming Doom Guy. In some games, obtaining all those guns and upgrades is the fun; the reward loop is what the game is about. Doom Eternal hands over its treasures casually, because its reward is walking straight into Hell to rip and tear. The few times I came out of fights in Doom Eternal without coming close to dying, I felt really smart. It meant I'd done a good job of dodging and aiming, landing headshots and aggressively using glory kills to keep my health up, but more importantly it meant I'd actually managed to execute on something approximating a plan. Like, okay, I'm going to shoot a grenade into the cacodemon's mouth first, which will let me kill him with a melee finisher, then I'll flamebelch a crowd and pick up as much armor as I can, then switch to the shotgun and keep running forward without stopping to put some distance between me and the mob. There's a Revenant, too—better shoot off his missile launchers so he's less of a threat and easy to glory kill. This all happens super fast. It's a mix of instincts and in-the-moment planning, which is what makes Doom Eternal so exhausting—your situational awareness has to be running in overdrive at all times. It's really fun, but absolutely not relaxing. I'm sure on lower difficulty settings Doom Eternal feels a little bit less frantic, but creative director Hugo Martin told me they want people to have the same experience no matter the difficulty setting. Doom Eternal is designed to make you constantly switch weapons and use everything in your arsenal to make it through. The more aggressive enemies push you to use the flame belch to build armor; the weak points on heavy-hitters like the Mancubus and Revenant force you to use grenades or specific weapon mods to cripple them. Sticking to the Super Shotgun isn't going to cut it this time. Purely for its combat, Doom feels like it already has a good shot at being the best shooter of 2020. I also saw some really, really cool art design in the first couple hours, with enormous demonic doors and the giant bodies of preserved ancient warriors. This is a Doom game with lore, and it's cool, in a cheesy Dragonforce lyrics kinda way. In a couple hours I met a ghost king, a brooding guy named The Betrayer whose face had definitely seen better days, and used some kind of talisman to unshield the soul of a Hell wizard before pulling his head off with my bare hands. Eternal is definitely going bigger with the Doom universe, but still keeps it out of the way of the action. There is downtime between the insanity, too, with some platforming segments and some short quiet moments to soak in the luxurious art, but at least in these opening hours, Doom Eternal seems determined to make its combat so complex, it can sustain your interest and stay engaging for an entire campaign. I was so focused on living through every fight and trying to remember every weapon at my disposal that I didn't even realize, until later, that the essence of '90s Doom was largely absent. Over time Doom's legacy has been distilled down into speed, violence, demons, and shooting. But so much of classic Doom was actually moody exploration of intricate levels; the spaces you explored made Doom Doom as much as the guns did. That level design isn't really on display in the opening hours of Doom Eternal. There are absolutely secrets to be found and side paths to go down, but Eternal is more focused on funneling you from one intense fight to the next than to more intricate exploration. Towards the end of levels it does give you the ability to fast travel back to earlier rooms, and there are side challenges you'll want to revisit to earn more upgrade points and so on. Hopefully the game settles into a less manic pace as it goes, and makes the act of progressing through complex spaces as integral and rewarding as the combat. Doom 2016 pulled off that balance beautifully, and Eternal is such a more is more sequel it may end up being lopsided in its focus on the shooting. But if the whole game keeps me on my toes as much as the first three hours, I don't know if I'll mind. As long as my heart can take the sustained stress, anyway. We won't have to wait long to see how the whole game plays out, because Doom Eternal hits PC on March 20th.

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Hours after Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Davos Tuesday and criticised world leaders for doing nothing for the environment, US President Donald Trump slammed environmentalists by referring to them as "perennial prophets of doom". "We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse," said Trump, hours after Thunberg told the World Economic Forum that governments had done "basically nothing" to reverse climate change. Trump, who is in Davos along with other world leaders to address the annual summit, continued his criticism of climate change activists. Back home, an impeachment trial against the US president has begun. Democrats have called on the Senate to remove Trump from office, describing him as a danger to American democracy and national security. Trump and his lawyers have decried his impeachment, saying he has done nothing wrong and that Democrats are simply trying to stop him from being re-elected. The televised trial is expected to hear opening arguments in the Republican-controlled Senate this week, and votes could take place as early as Tuesday on the rules governing the trial. This would include deciding whether the Senate should at a later date consider subpoenas for witnesses, such as Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. The chamber’s 100 members must decide whether to convict Trump on charges approved by the Democratic-led House of Representatives on Dec. 18, accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress arising from his dealings with Ukraine.

LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry spoke on Sunday of his sadness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will see him and his wife Meghan exit official roles to seek an independent future. Buckingham Palace and the queen announced on Saturday that Harry and Meghan would no longer be working members of Britain’s monarchy, no longer use their “Royal Highness” titles and would now pay their own way in life, freeing them to forge new careers. The new arrangement was struck to end a crisis the couple sparked by announcing earlier this month they wanted to cut down on official engagements and spend more time in North America, while remaining active royals. In a speech to the Sentebale charity on Sunday, a clearly upset Harry said the final outcome was not what he and his American wife, a former actress, had wanted. “Our hope was to continue serving the queen, the Commonwealth and my military associations without public funding. Sadly that wasn’t possible,” the prince, the sixth-in-line to the throne, said. “I’ve accepted this knowing it doesn’t change who I am, or how committed I am. But I hope that helps you understand what it had come to, that I would step back from all I have ever known to take a step forward into what I hope can be a more peaceful life.” Under the arrangement, Harry will remain a prince and the couple will keep their titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they begin a new life split between Britain and North America where they will spend the majority of their time. But they will not take part in any future ceremonial events or royal tours. Royal commentators said it amounted to an “abdication” from the “firm” - as the royals are known - and showed that, under the warm words in which she said Harry and Meghan were much loved, the queen had taken a firm and decisive line by insisting on a clean break. "NO OPTION" “It brings me great sadness that it has come to this,” said Harry. He said the decision to step back had followed months of talks and had not been a decision he had come to lightly. They were not walking away, he explained. “As far as this goes, there really was no other option,” he added. He told the audience at the charity he founded to help children with HIV in Africa that he wanted them to hear the truth from him “not as a Prince, or a Duke, but as Harry, the same person that many of you have watched grow up over the last 35 years but with a clearer perspective”. “The UK is my home and a place that I love. That will never change,” he said. The couple’s plans for independence, announced after a long break over the Christmas period in Canada, caught the rest of the royal family by surprise earlier this month and left the queen and other senior members hurt and disappointed, according to royal sources. However, in a TV interview aired in October, both had made it clear how they were struggling with the immense media attention. The couple also began legal action against one newspaper for printing a letter she sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Harry said he felt his wife had faced “bullying” from some tabloids similar to that faced by his mother Princess Diana who died in a car crash while trying to escape paparazzi photographers. “I was born into this life and it is a great honour to serve my country and the queen,” he said. “When I lost my mum 23 years ago, you took me under your wing. You’ve looked out for me for so long but the media is a powerful force and my hope is one day our collective support for each other can be more powerful because this is so much bigger than just us.” Buckingham Palace have said the couple would no longer receive public money and that they would repay the cost of refurbishing their cottage in Windsor, which official figures show amounted to 2.4 million pounds ($3.1 million). But certain details, such as their future security arrangements or whether the couple could continue to use the “Sussex Royal” title for their website and branding, have either not been finalised or publicly revealed. Meghan is currently in Canada with their baby son Archie and Harry is expected to join her soon. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said earlier on Sunday he believed that the whole of Britain would want to wish the very best to the couple for their future. “As I said before ... I was sure that the royal family, which has been around a very long time, will find a way forward,” Johnson told Sky News. However, Meghan’s father was less generous to the couple. Markle told Britain’s Channel 5 news in a documentary recorded before Saturday’s announcement but aired on Sunday that he believed Meghan was tossing away “every girl’s dream” and damaging the monarchy. “They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they’re making it shabby,” he said.

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China reported 17 more cases of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus strain on Sunday, stoking worries as the country gears up to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year when much of the po[CENSORED]tion travels. Three of those patients are seriously ill, according to a statement issued by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission. The total number of patients infected by the disease in China, all of them in central Chinese city of Wuhan, has now climbed to 62. Two have died. The 17 new patients began exhibiting symptoms such as a fever or cough before Jan.13, the statement said. The Chinese Lunar New Year is a one-week holiday that starts from January 24 this year. The new virus belongs to the large family of coronaviruses that includes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed nearly 800 people globally during a 2002-2003 outbreak that also started in China. The United States said on Friday that it would begin screening efforts at three US airports to track travelers from Wuhan who may have symptoms of the fever. Though experts say the new virus does not appear to be as lethal as SARS, little is known about its origins and it is not clear whether human-to-human transmission can occur. Thailand has reported two cases of the virus and Japan has reported one. All of the cases so far have involved people either living in Wuhan or who have traveled to the city

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Friday he wants to avoid war after Tehran and Washington appeared on the brink of direct military confrontation in early January for the second time in less than a year. Ahead of parliamentary elections on February 21 -- predicted to be a challenge for Rouhani´s camp -- and amid high tensions between Tehran and the West over Iran´s nuclear programme, the president said dialogue with the world was still "possible". "The government is working daily to prevent military confrontation or war," Rouhani said in a televised speech. The region seemed on the brink of new conflict earlier in January after the US killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad, prompting Iran to retaliate against US military targets in Iraq with a volley of missiles days later. The strike caused significant material damage but no casualties, according to the US military. Rouhani said the strike amounted to "compensation" for the death of Soleimani, the architect of Iran´s Middle East military strategy. The tensions between the two enemies seemed to subside in the wake of the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger airliner hours after the retaliatory strikes, as Iran was on high alert for US reprisals. The tragedy killed 176 people, mostly Iranians and Canadians. Canada´s foreign minister on Thursday vowed to push Iran for answers about the tragedy. "Families want answers, the international community wants answers, the world is waiting for answers and we will not rest until we get them," Francois-Philippe Champagne said in London. - Better governance - Ottawa said earlier that US President Donald Trump´s policies had contributed to the heightened tensions that led to the catastrophe. In June 2019, Iran and the US had also appeared to be on the brink of direct military confrontation after Tehran shot down a US drone it said had violated its airspace. Trump said he called off retaliatory strikes at the last minute. The animosity between Washington and Tehran has increased since Trump withdrew the US from the landmark 2015 nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed biting sanctions. In Iran, the air disaster sparked public outrage and anti-government demonstration took place every day from Saturday to Wednesday. Security forces were deployed across the capital in response to the protests. According to an AFP journalist, around 50 riot police with batons, motorbikes and what appeared to be tear gas launcher were posted at a major junction in north Tehran on Thursday evening. Concentrated in the capital, the protests appeared smaller than a wave of national demonstrations in November, prompted by a fuel price hike. They had been met with a crackdown that left at least 300 people dead, according to Amnesty International. Rouhani implicitly acknowledged a crisis of confidence in authorities, but called Wednesday for "national unity", better governance and greater pluralism. On Thursday, Rouhani also defended the policy of openness to the world that he has pursued since his first election in 2013, and which Iran´s ultra-conservatives criticise. "Of course, it´s difficult," he acknowledged, but added, "the people elected us to lower tensions and animosity" between the Islamic republic and the world. Rouhani said that with the nuclear deal "we have proven in practice that it is possible for us to interact with the world. " Rouhani was speaking the day before supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to lead the main weekly Muslim prayers in Tehran for the first time since 2012. Khamenei, who maintains that the West is not trustworthy, bans dialogue with Trump. - High School bully - On Thursday, Rouhani said Iran´s "daily enrichment" of uranium was currently "higher" than before the conclusion of the 2015 nuclear deal. Rouhani, who instigated the negotiations, made the comments while justifying his nuclear policy and Iran´s progressive disengagement from the accord. He also stated his willingness to continue dialogue on the agreement. In response to the US withdrawal from the deal and sanctions, an increasingly frustrated Iran has hit back with a step-by-step suspension of its own commitments under the deal, which drastically limited its nuclear activities. On Tuesday, Germany, the UK and France -- the three European parties to the deal -- announced they had triggered a dispute mechanism in response to the latest step back from the deal by Tehran. Germany on Thursday confirmed a Washington Post report that the US had threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports of European cars if EU governments continued to back the nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the European parties of having "sold out" the deal to avoid trade reprisals from the US, and said Trump was again behaving like a "high school bully". According to a European Union Statement, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell met Zarif in New Delhi on Thursday and urged Iran to "preserve" the increasingly fragile nuclear deal.

India is planning to cut some imports from Turkey and widen curbs on palm oil from Malaysia to oil, gas and other products, government officials said, targeting the two Muslim-majority countries for their criticism of India’s policy towards occupied Kashmir, reported Reuters news agency. India, the world’s biggest buyer of edible oils, has already effectively stopped importing palm oil from Malaysia by asking Indian importers to look elsewhere. New Delhi is now planning to restrict buying of petroleum, aluminium ingots, liquefied natural gas, computer parts and microprocessors from Malaysia, the two government officials, who did not wish to be identified, told Reuters. The government is also planning to cut imports of oil and steel products from Turkey, one of the officials said. Our government has not taken kindly the comments of Malaysia and Turkey and we will restrict trade from both the countries,” one of the officials said. The Indian Commerce Ministry did not reply to an email seeking comment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said recently Hindu-majority India was “invading and occupying the country” of Jammu and Kashmir and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan had said Kashmiris are “virtually under blockade”. The Indian government withdrew the autonomy of Kashmir last year to tighten its grip on the region, shutting down internet access and detaining activists and politicians. India’s Supreme Court last week ruled an indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir was illegal. Tension between India and Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest producer and exporter of palm oil after Indonesia, further escalated after 94-year-old Mahathir criticised India’s new citizenship law that critics say discriminates against Muslims. Turkey meanwhile has sided with Pakistan on issues such as its membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which oversees the export of goods that can be used for nuclear weapons manufacturing. Turkey is also against the blacklisting of Pakistan by the world financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force, to curb its alleged financing of terror, something India has been lobbying for hard. Indian trade data indicates that overall imports from both Malaysia and Turkey had already taken a hit last year. With additional input from Reuters

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