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Judge says Prince Harry can sue UK govt over security plan

July 22, 2022 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the U.K., a judge in London ruled Friday.

Harry and his wife Meghan lost publicly funded U.K.

UK judge rejects bid to ground Rwanda deportation flight

By JILL LAWLESSJune 10, 2022 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday rejected a bid to ground a flight due to take more than 30 asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda next week, but gave the migrants permission for a last-minute appeal.

She was trapped in her apartment for 65 days. Now she’s suing | Ronnie Polaneczky

October 29, 2018 GMT

By Staff

After hearing what Brenda Harrison’s landlord has put her through, I came across this quote from Irish satirist Jonathan Swift:

“I never wonder to see men wicked,” he wrote, “but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

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Wallace Shawn’s cold joke leaves a creative shiver

Wei-Huan ChenOctober 11, 2017 GMT

There is a genre of humor in Taiwan and China called "leng xiaohua," which translates to "cold joke." No concept like it exists in English. It's a bit like dry humor, though not quite. A cold joke is one that makes you shiver rather than laugh, an anti-joke whose comedy rests not in the punchline but the very fact that there was never supposed to be one.

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