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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, the Japanese government said Wednesday, in their first overseas trip since assuming the throne in 2019. Top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that the royal couple would be present but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other government officials would not attend. Queen Elizabeth met three generations of Japanese royals and had invited Emperor Naruhito and his wife to […]
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Elizabeth is majestic, hardy and “very fashionable”, said a top Singapore flower curator — referring not to the late monarch, but to an orchid named after the queen when she visited the former British colony. After Queen Elizabeth II’s death last week, the city-state’s Botanic Gardens loaned a towering sprig of Dendrobium Elizabeth to the British high commissioner’s residence, to be displayed alongside pictures of the monarch. The orchid hybrid, with […]
by Anna MALPAS / Sylvain PEUCHMAURD Agence France Presse EDINBURGH, United Kingdom (AFP) — Tens of thousands of mourners lined the route of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral cortege on Sunday as it left the Scottish retreat where she died, to bid farewell to their longest serving monarch. The hearse carrying the 96-year-old’s oak coffin, draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland, was driven from the Balmoral estate through Aberdeen and Dundee to the capital […]
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Friday joined other world leaders in paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. “It is with profound sadness that we receive the news of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Balmoral Castle yesterday evening,” Marcos said in a statement. “She exemplified to the world a true monarch’s great dignity, commitment to duty, and devotion to all those in […]
by Martine PAUWELS / Phil HAZLEWOOD / Valentine GRAVELEAU Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday kicked off the first of four days of celebrations marking her record-breaking 70 years on the throne, to cheering crowds of tens of thousands of people. But the 96-year-old sovereign’s appearance at the Platinum Jubilee — a milestone never previously reached by a British monarch — took its toll, forcing her to […]
NEW JERSEY, United States – As the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) or Church Of Christ celebrates its 107th anniversary, the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, declared July 27, 2021 as IGLESIA NI CRISTO DAY. Elizabeth City Mayor J. Christian Bollwage himself read the proclamation on the steps of City Hall, with some ministers and members of the INC present to witness and commemorate this momentous occasion. Mayor Bollwage highlighted the importance of the INC’s […]
by Robin MILLARD / Jerome CARTILLIER LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Donald Trump hailed Queen Elizabeth II as a “great, great woman” as the British monarch threw a lavish banquet for the US president on Monday to kick off his three-day state visit. The Trump dynasty sat down to a glittering dinner with the British royal family in the Buckingham Palace ballroom as the UK rolled out the red carpet. Both Trump and the 93-year-old […]
(REUTERS) Long before Ahmad Rahami became notorious as the suspect in this weekend’s bombings in and around New York, his family was known in Elizabeth, New Jersey, for frequent skirmishes with neighbors over its fried chicken restaurant. Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan, had a few other brushes with the law on his own, records show. Described as a “class clown” by a high school classmate, he studied criminal […]
