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Reigning Champion Magnus Carlsen has officially retained his world title after defeating Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi. On 26 April 2004, Carlsen became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years.
 

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Mahfouz bin Mahfouz with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall after receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace in 2016

Scotland Yard has demanded to see dozens of emails between Prince Charles’ aides as they fixed a royal CBE honour for Saudi billionaire Mahfouz in exchange for a 1.5 million pound donation. New evidence shows Charles sent private thank you gift and letter to him after meeting him in England, Scotland and Saudi Arabia.

CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, followed by OBE and then MBE
 

mellowyellow said:
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CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, followed by OBE and then MBE
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Commander of the British Empire is just one gong under what they all really hanker after. That of KBE which carries with it, the title of "Sir."
Sir Mahfouz bin Mahfouz would probably carry much kudos back home.

The honorary knighthood is the highest honor Britain can bestow on a foreigner. The knighthood has two ranks. Britain bestowed the top rank, Knight Grand Cross, on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and five other American commanders: two generals, George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur, and three admirals, Chester W. Nimitz, William D. Leahy and Ernest J. King.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf became the ninth American military officer to receive an honorary knighthood from a King or Queen of England. General Schwarzkopf did not have to kneel and be tapped on the shoulder by Queen Elizabeth II when he was knighted. The Queen simply handed him a box containing the cross and silver star of the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. None the less, old Stormin' Norman quipped: "Compared to this, (the ceremony) Saddam was a piece of cake!"
 
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London, England
A solitary City worker walks along a deserted street in the financial district. After government advice, many people are working from home again
Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/AP
 
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Russia recently moved 90,000 troops to their border with Ukraine, as concerns over a potential invasion grow. AP

Russia will have no choice but to respond with military force should NATO continue their expansion towards the east, Moscow said yesterday.
 
You can only rattle sabers for a time, then start a war or go home-we've been trying to determine Russia's intent for seventy years.
We remain puzzled
 
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Melbourne, Australia
More than 100 members of the cast and crew of three major Broadway blockbusters: Disney’s Frozen, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, gather to celebrate the return of live theatre in the city
 
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Police officers comfort each other at the scene of fatal jumping castle accident in Tasmania. ABC News/Monte Bovill

Five children have died and four others remain in hospital after wind picked up a jumping castle and threw it into the air at an end-of-year activity day at a Tasmanian primary school. Wind blew the jumping castle 10m into the air at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport
 
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Around 40 migrants landed on the beach at Dungeness at 1.30pm after being brought to shore on a RNLI lifeboat.

More than 100 migrants, including a little girl clutching her teddy bear, have today crossed the English Channel in freezing conditions - amid warnings from inspectors that young children are being forced to sleep in cramped conditions alongside convicted criminals.
 
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Yuma, Arizona, US
An immigrant family from Haiti walks towards a gap in the US border wall from Mexico to Yuma. The city has seen a surge of migrant crossings in the past week, with many immigrants trying to reach US soil before the court-ordered reimplementation of the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy
Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
 
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Avdiivka, Ukraine
A soldier walks along a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists not far from town of Avdiivka in Donetsk
Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Oswestry, UK
The newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan bursts a ‘Boris bubble’ held by Tim Farron after her victory in the North Shropshire by-election. Photograph: Jacob King/PA
 

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