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Princess Kate Is Pregnant With Her Third Child - Latest9ja

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  Princess Kate and Prince Charles are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace has announced. 

Prinncess Kate with Prince Charles
Princess Kate and Prince Charles, Duke of Cambridge, stand with their baby daughter, Charlotte outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, in London, Britain May 2, 2015. (Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

  As the world reeled from news from North Korea with its bomb threat, news emerged from the Kensington Palace that Princess Kate Middleton, wife of the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Charles is pregnant with a third child. The queen and both families are reportedly happy with the news.


However, Princess Kate is down with hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness which also affected her during her previous two pregnancies. The princess who is also the Duchess of Cambridge has cancelled her planned engagement at the Hornsey Road Children’s Centre in London today.
The royal couple who have already produced two children — and possible heirs to the throne — the one son, George, and one daughter, Charlotte, aged four and two.
The expectant child if it is a girl, will become the fifth in line to the throne behind Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, and Princess Charlotte.


This is due to a change in the royal law - which stops royal sons taking precedence over their female siblings in the line of succession - came into force in March 2015.
The child will be the Queen's sixth great-grandchild.


Unfortunately, to become King or Queen as the third-born royal child is rare - and has yet to happen within the current House of Windsor.
However, the third child of George III and Queen Charlotte, William IV, took on the task and ruled from 1830 to 1837.
The Hanoverian king acceded to the throne aged 64 when his older brother, George IV, died without an heir.
He became next in line when he was 62 and his other older brother, Frederick, Duke of York, died.

Prime Minister, Theresa May has congratulated the couple, calling it a "fantastic news."

Trump: Warmbier 'should have been brought home a long time ago'

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that Otto Warmbier, the American who died days after his release from North Korea, would still be alive if he had been released sooner.
"He should have been brought home that same day. The results would have been a lot different," Trump said.
The Trump administration secured Warmbier's release from North Korea last week on humanitarian grounds after nearly 18 months of imprisonment. He arrived in the US last Tuesday in a coma and died on Monday.
Trump called the situation a "disgrace" and is now facing calls for the US to respond to North Korea for its role in Warmbier's death.
But on Tuesday, answering a question during an Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president, Trump focused on lamenting the length of Warmbier's imprisonment and the delay in securing his release.
"He should have been brought home a long time ago," Trump said.
Warmbier was arrested and imprisoned in North Korea during President Barack Obama's time in office, though North Korea only informed the US of Warmbier's medical condition earlier this month. Trump's comment could be interpreted as an implicit knock of the Obama administration.
Ned Price, former National Security Council spokesman under Obama, responded to Trump saying the Obama administration "had no higher priority than securing the release of Americans detained overseas."
"North Korea's isolation posed unique challenges, but we worked through every avenue available to us -- including through the Swedish, our protecting power, as well as through our representatives in New York -- to secure the release of Mr. Warmbier," he said, adding that at least 10 Americans were freed from North Korea under Obama.
Three Americans remain imprisoned in North Korea. Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song were arrested in recent months on charges of committing "hostile acts." A third American, Kim Dong Chul was detained in 2015.
"A lot of bad things happened, but at least we got him home to be with his parents, where they were so happy to see him even though he was in very tough condition," Trump said Monday, reacting to Warmbier's death.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday offered few details about how the US plans to respond to the death of Warmbier, promising only that the US will "continue to apply economic and political pressure" to change North Korea's behavior.
"The President has spoken very clearly about how he and the first lady and our country feels about the loss of this American," Spicer said.

Spicer said the US is continuing to work with China to apply pressure on North Korea and said the US has seen "positive movement" with China.
The US will "continue to work with them and others to put the appropriate pressure on North Korea to change the behavior of this regime," Spicer said.
Asked whether Trump would still consider meeting with Kim Jong Un -- as he previously said he would be willing to do, given the right conditions -- Spicer said: "Clearly, we're moving further away, not closer, to those conditions being met."

Breaking: EU citizens in Britain to be asked to register for post-Brexit status

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The government is preparing to announce a registration process for the estimated 3 million EU citizens living in the UK, as a first step towards regularising their legal status post-Brexit.
It is understood ministers will unveil plans inviting all EU citizens to officially “register their interest” in acquiring documentation allowing them to live and work in the country after 2019 when Britain is scheduled to leave the European bloc.
The government is hoping the stocktaking exercise will help it understand the scale of the demand for residency applications once Britain leaves the EU and prevent an overwhelming avalanche of applications on Brexit day.
The registration process is expected to be part of a new scheme tailor-made for EU citizens already living in the UK.
It will not be linked to the current and controversial permanent residency process, which requires applicants to submit mountains of paperwork to demonstrate they have a right to remain in the country.
There is no no legal obligation for EU citizens to apply for residency cards, but many have been panicked into applying for the document as they see it as the only way to prove their status after Brexit takes effect.
The new scheme is expected to form part of the wider proposal on EU citizens’ rights, which the Brexit secretary, David Davis, said would be outlined on Monday.
The offer is being described by government sources as “generous” but any deal that fails to match that put on the negotiating table by the EU is likely to get a hostile reception by EU citizens in the UK and British nationals in the EU.
Nicolas Hatton, co-founder of grassroots campaign group the3million, said the government’s protracted position that EU citizens could be “bargaining chips” in Brexit talks and Theresa May’s refusal to offer any details on the Conservative party’s position had fostered deep suspicion among EU citizens.

“If the registration process is not going to entitle them to residency, they won’t do it. People will be sceptical and think it will be used to foul their applications,” he said. “They just won’t bother to register – they will see it as pointless.”
Monique Hawkins, a dual British-Dutch national, who made international headlines when her application for permanent residency was refused on technical grounds, also reported mistrust among EU citizens.
She has spent six months working behind the scenes with the3million and the British in Europe, a coalition of groups representing Britons on the continent.

Woman who married her son arrested for also marrying daughter (PHOTOS)

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A woman and her daughter are facing incest charges  after authorities learned the pair were legally married in Oklahoma this year, and that the mother had married her son a few years earlier.
The motivation behind the March marriage was unclear Wednesday, when 43-year-old Patricia Ann Spann and her daughter, 25-year-old Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, made initial appearances in StephensCounty district court. Under Oklahoma law, marrying a close relative is considered incest whether or not a sexual relationship exists.

Neither woman had an attorney listed in court documents. No publicly listed phone number could be found for their home in Duncan, about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
According to a police affidavit, officers learned about the marriage late last month amid a childwelfare investigation. Patricia Spann told a statechild services investigator she’d lost custody of three children, who were adopted by their paternal grandmother, but reunited with her daughter two years ago. She said she thought a marriage was OK because her name wasn’t on her daughter’s birth certificate, the affidavit states.
Detectives later learned she married her son in 2008. He filed for an annulment 15 months later citing “incest,” stating he was married to his birth mother, according to the affidavit.
Police didn’t return a message seeking investigation details following the women’s court appearance. Both women were being held on $10,000 bonds.

Trump attacks Australian PM during phone call

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President Donald Trump ripped into his Australian counterpart during their call last week, reports said, castigating a refugee accord he later described on Twitter as a “dumb deal.”

The Washington Post said Trump abruptly cut short the fiery conversation after criticising the agreement to re-settle people kept in Pacific camps, sparking a war of words with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Thursday after the report surfaced.
Australia is considered a close US ally — one of the so-called “Five Eyes” with which the US routinely shares sensitive intelligence — and the call might have been expected to be smooth sailing.
But, according to the Post, Trump’s assessment was the opposite.
Of his four conversations with world leaders that day “This was the worst call by far,” it cited him as telling Turnbull, shortly before he terminated the telephone meeting.
Australian government sources told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the report was “substantially accurate”.
Turnbull said he was disappointed details of the “very frank and forthright” exchange had been leaked.
“As far as the call is concerned I’m very disappointed that there has been a leak of purported details of the call in Washington,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB.
“But I want to make one observation about it — the report that the president hung up is not correct. The call ended courteously.”
He added that Canberra had “very, very strong standards in the way we deal with other leaders and we are not about to reveal details of conversations other than in a manner that is agreed”.
The Post’s account is markedly different from the official read-out of the call provided by both governments.
Turnbull said Monday that Trump had agreed to honor the deal struck with then president Barack Obama to resettle an unspecified number of the 1,600 people Australia holds in offshore processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
There were fears the new US president would rescind it after he signed an executive order last week to suspend the arrival of refugees to the US for a least 120 days, and bar entry for three months to people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Beyonce beats Selena Gomez to have the most like photo on Instagram

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Beyoncé who announced that she is pregnant with twins only yesterday now has the most liked photo on Instagram beating singer, Selena Gomez who held the title since June 2016.