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    Meghan Markle is an accomplished woman in her own right. She's the star of TV drama Suits,a thoughtful writer, an activist who's worked with the UN, and the creator of an affordable fashion line. She's also dating Prince Harry of the British Royal family a fact that's sent the media into a full-on frenzy. Early tabloid articles about the couple were often invasive and sometimes flat-out racist (one said Markle had "exotic DNA"). Eventually Prince Harry was compelled to release a statement that simultaneously confirmed their relationship and condemned the way the media was covering it. Things have calmed down a bit since then, though paparazzi cameras did capture the couple attending a wedding together in Jamaica. Now royals fans are wondering whether or not Markle and Prin...

    A shop-worker who has lived in Britain for 27 years is facing deportation after being detained by immigration officers. Stojan Jankovic, 52, has worked at Earth Natural Foods in Camden, London for 15 years but is currently being held at a detention centre in Dorset while officials attempt to remove him from the country. Mr Jankovic arrived in the UK in 1991 from the then Republic of Yugoslavia, but his application for asylum is understood to have been refused. It is believed his leave to remain in the country expired in 1999 but he has been working and paying taxes since then without encountering any problems. Mr Jankovic's boss, John Grayson, described him to the Camden New Journal as “kindly, avuncular, cheerful [and] reliable". “I don’t think he’s had a day off sick in ...

    Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons Britain has begun to take back control from Brussels as David Davis announced that the first EU law to be scrapped after Brexit will be a charter that helps criminals avoid deportation. Revealing details of the forthcoming Great Repeal Bill, Mr Davis told MPs that the controversial EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will be dropped on the day Britain leaves Europe. MPs cheered in the House of Commons as the Brexit Secretary told them Britain would be regaining the sovereignty it last enjoyed in 1972. He said: “A strong, independent country needs control of its own laws. That process starts now.” A day after Theresa May began the Brexit process by invoking Article 50, European leaders entrenched their positions on thei...