Prince Andrew met ‘Chinese spymaster’ three times

Prince Andrew met the top Chinese official at the centre of the Beijing spy case at least three times, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Duke of York held meetings in 2018 and 2019 with Cai Qi, one of the most senior members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a close ally of Xi Jinping, China’s president.

Mr Cai is understood to be the final recipient of sensitive information allegedly passed to China by Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash, the two British nationals accused of spying for Beijing.

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Vatican ‘grants request for Muslim prayer room’

The Vatican has granted Muslim scholars’ request for a prayer room.

In an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Father Giacomo Cardinali, the Vice Prefect of the Vatican Library, said the ancient institution is now allowing academics an area to practice their own religion onsite.

He said: ‘Some Muslim scholars asked us for a room with a prayer rug, and we gave it to them.’

h/t Hermes

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Doug Ford spends nearly half a billion dollars to push DEI and race ideology in schools

Under Premier Doug Ford’s watch, Ontario has quietly poured nearly half a billion dollars into reshaping its schools around a DEI agenda and pushing race-based ideology onto students.

Since Ontario launched its “equity” education overhaul in 2017, programs rooted in Marxist-inspired critical race theory and other DEI-rooted practices have been embedded throughout the public education system.

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