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Saturday, July 17, 2021
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Astronomers spot the biggest, strangest black hole collision ever found
The cosmic pile-up produced the first black hole of its kind ever detected—and that’s not the weird part.
More than seven billion years ago, two immense black holes circled each other until they collided and merged, a cataclysm so intense that it sent ripples soaring through the fabric of space-time. In the early morning hours of May 21, 2019, Earth trembled from the vibrations sent off by this distant carnage, cluing in astronomers to the biggest cosmic bang they’d ever detected—and one that defies theoretical expectation.
The signal picked up by two observatories—LIGO in the United States and Virgo in Italy— came in the form of gravitational waves: disruptions in space-time that massive cosmic events can set into motion. This signal—named GW190521—came from a truly monstrous collision. Researchers estimate that two black holes 66 and 85 times more massive than our sun spiraled into each other, uniting to form a black hole 142 times more massive than our sun.
The event, announced today in Physical Review Letters, is by far the biggest ever detected via gravitational waves. In a fraction of a second, the merging black holes released roughly eight times more energy than that contained within our sun’s atoms, all in the form of gravitational waves. That amount of energy is like setting off more than a million billion atomic bombs every second for 13.8 billion years, the age of the observable universe.
Caltech astronomer Matthew Graham, who isn’t part of the LIGO or Virgo teams, calls the event “probably the largest explosion we’ve ever known in the universe.”
The black hole merger is causing a lot of scientific excitement, for a few reasons. First, the black hole it produced fills in a perplexing gap in our observations. Until now, researchers had found black holes tens of times more massive than our sun and supermassive black holes millions to billions times more massive than our sun, but never had confirmed one between 100 and 100,000 solar masses. Clocking in at about 142 solar masses, GW190521’s final black hole is the first ever found in this intermediate range.
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“Now we can settle the case and say that intermediate-mass black holes exist,” says LIGO team member Christopher Berry, a physicist at Northwestern University.
But for Berry and others, the more exciting black hole isn’t the resulting one. Instead, the real surprise is the more massive of the two starting black holes, the one with a mass roughly 85 times greater than our sun’s—because black holes theoretically shouldn’t exist in that range.
“This is shocking, because it’s where we expect black holes not to exist,” he says.
An unexpected black hole
The 85-solar-mass black hole is such a mystery because of how scientists think massive stars die.
For all their nuclear fury, stars are objects in balance: Gravity compresses stars inward, but as light leaves the core, it pushes the star back outward. But massive stars can sometimes burn so hot at their cores, this balancing act can get knocked out of whack. Individual particles of light called photons will pick up enough energy to turn into pairs of electrons and positrons, the antimatter equivalents of electrons. This change temporarily lowers the pressure within the sun’s core, which then causes the star to compress and heat up.
Current theory predicts that when such a star is roughly 60 to 130 times more massive than our sun, the compression and heating leads to a runaway explosion called a pair-instability supernova. Such an occurrence destroys the star so completely that the ejected debris can’t collapse into a black hole.
Weirdly, the larger black hole in the pair that created GW190521 is “smack-bang in the range you’d expect pair instability,” Berry says. In essence, it isn’t supposed to be possible for one star to create such a black hole.
“If you found a black hole that was between 52 and 133 solar masses, it could not have been synthesized as a single, one-shot corpse of a star,” explains Yale University theoretical astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, an expert on black holes who wasn’t involved with the study. “Nature is telling us that there are many ways to reach these black hole masses.”
Hostile mergers?
In a companion paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the LIGO-Virgo team runs through several scenarios for how the merger—and the odd black holes involved—could have formed. The most promising idea is that at least one of the black holes, if not both of them, formed from the merger of two smaller, more garden-variety black holes.
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“That’s my favorite scenario,” says Pennsylvania State University astrophysicist Steinn Sigurdsson, who wasn’t involved with the discovery.
Certain kinds of cosmic environments could make these two-step mergers likelier. One possibility that might increase the chance of such an event is if it happened within a disk of gas orbiting a galaxy’s central supermassive black hole.
There’s tantalizing evidence that GW190521 may have taken place in such a setting. In June, Graham co-authored a study in Physical Review Letters describing a flash of light in the same patch of sky as GW190521, about 34 days after the gravitational waves rattled Earth. Graham’s team argued that the flare could have formed as the merged black hole raced through the disk of gas surrounding a supermassive black hole, heating the gas up enough to make it glow.
That said, there’s one nagging difference between the new studies and the flare results: distance. Graham’s study pinpoints the flare to a galaxy some eight billion light-years away, while the LIGO-Virgo results put the black hole merger at more than 17 billion light-years away. Graham says it’s possible that it’s just a coincidence that the locations match. “If you look at enough things, you will find these very rare things lining up,” he says.
Natarajan has another idea. In a 2014 Science study she co-authored, she calculated that in the early universe, small black holes could bulk up with extraordinary speed by randomly bouncing around gas-rich star clusters and feasting along the way. In a forthcoming study that riffs on this idea, she finds that the right kind of star cluster could give birth to a pair of black holes, each about 50 to 75 times the mass of our sun, that could then merge.
“That’s why I’m super excited!” she says.
For all the theoretical work that GW190521 is sure to spark, scientists say that its mysteries will be solved only after LIGO and Virgo detect more collisions like it. “With a single event, you can always appeal to uniquely lucky circumstances,” Sigurdsson says. “As soon as you have a handful of events, you really start squeezing the heck out of a lot of models.”
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Monday, July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Six people charged following robbery at Montego Bay store
Sunday, July 11, 2021
ST JAMES, Jamaica— The St James Police arrested and charged six people with robbery with aggravation, illegal possession of firearm, shooting with intent and malicious destruction of property following a robbery at a store on King Street, Montego Bay on Saturday, July 3.
Charged are 21-year-old Tajay Ruddock, 18-year-old Shekira Loney, as well as four teenagers, all from King Street, Montego Bay in St James.
The police said that the complainants opened the store for business about 8:35 am, when four people entered, one armed with a firearm.
They allegedly proceeded to rob the complainants of several cellular phones and costume jewellery before making their escape.
The police were called and later carried out an operation in the King Street area where the suspects were taken into custody.
On Monday, July 5, the teenagers, Ruddock and Loney were all charged, following interviews.
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Friday, July 9, 2021
CONTROLLED FROM PRISON - Woman says prisoner she met online nearly ruined her life
July 09, 2021
Months after ending a relationship with a murder-convict who is serving time in one of the country's maximum security prisons, a Corporate Area woman is sounding the warning to other women who would contemplate similar escapades.
Keisha*, who is in her 20s, said that she met one-time beau, Andre* on social media, and although she was aware that he was imprisoned, that did not prevent her from starting a relationship with him. She said that the two developed a strong bond over the phone and from the numerous times she visited him in prison.
"At first he and I would pray on the phone. Wi would read di Bible together, and baay things. Him did have mi inna one fantasy world, where mi a expect baby and marriage when him come out. Whenever we on the phone is like him nuh wah come off," Keisha said.
She said Andre assured her he would be out in five years and they found creative ways, such as phone sex, to satisfy their sexual desires.
Affection from behind bars
It is unclear who Andre managed to get a phone in his cell as under Jamaican laws, it is illegal for such instrument to be in the possession of prisoners. Despite the prohibition, it is not uncommon for contrabands such as phones to end up in penal institutions. More than 2,000 phones were seized in the country's prisons last year.
Keisha said that her then boyfriend found ways to prove his love and affection from behind bars. She said that he showered her with gifts, including jewellery, expensive clothes, and even cash to start her business.
"I was being well-taken care of," she said of the relationship that continued for three years.
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However, she quickly pointed out that despite her man being behind bars, she rarely had freedom to do as she pleased.
Many times I was somewhere and all of a sudden he was calling me, telling me that I must go home. Him would call over 100 times straight, if him cyah get mi on the phone," she said.
Keisha said that he became so possessive that he would, at times, send someone to her home to find out what was happening to her if he could not reach her by phone.
According to Keisha, she only got peace after she became a Christian and decided to ignore the 'things of the world'. She changed her telephone number and cut off all forms of communication with Andre.
Looking back, Keisha said that she considers herself a lucky woman, adding that her decision to follow Jesus saved her from a situation that could have become deadly.
*Names changed to protect identity
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Thursday, July 8, 2021
Two Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti president
July 08, 2021
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections, told The Associated Press that James Solages was among six people arrested in the 36 hours since the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moise by gunmen at his home in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday.
Four other suspected assailants were killed and two are still missing, Pierre said.
Pierre would not provide additional details about Solages’ background, nor would he provide the name of the second Haitian-American he said was arrested.
Solages describes himself as a “certified diplomatic agent,” an advocate for children and budding politician on a website for a charity he established in 2019 in south Florida to assist residents.
On his bio page for the charity, Solages said he previously worked as a bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. Calls to the foundation and Solages’ associates at the charity either did not go through or were not answered.
“The pursuit of the mercenaries continues,” said Léon Charles, director of Haiti’s National Police, in announcing the arrest of suspects. “Their fate is fixed: They will fall in the fighting or will be arrested.”
Witnesses said two suspects were discovered hiding in bushes in Port-au-Prince on Thursday by a crowd, some of whom grabbed the men by their shirts and pants, pushing them and occasionally slapping them.
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Police arrived shortly afterward to arrest the men, who were sweating heavily and wearing clothes that seemed to be smeared with mud, an Associated Press journalist at the scene said. Officers placed them in the back of a pickup truck and drove away as the crowd ran after them to the nearby police station.
Once there, some in the crowd chanted: “They killed the president! Give them to us. We’re going to burn them!”
One man was overheard saying that it was unacceptable for foreigners to come to Haiti to kill the country’s leader, referring to reports from officials that the perpetrators spoke Spanish or English.
The crowd later set fire to several abandoned cars riddled with bullet holes that they believed belonged to the suspects, who were white men. The cars didn’t have license plates, and inside one of them was an empty box of bullets and some water.
At a news conference Thursday, Charles, the police chief, asked people to stay calm, go home and let police do their work as he warned that authorities needed evidence they were destroying, including the burned cars.
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Officials did not provide any details about the suspects, including their nationalities, nor did they address a motive or say what led police to them. They said only that the attack condemned by Haiti’s main opposition parties and the international community was carried out by “a highly trained and heavily armed group.”
Prime Minister Claude Joseph assumed leadership of Haiti with the backing of police and the military and on Thursday asked people to reopen businesses and go back to work as he ordered the reopening of the international airport.
On Wednesday, Joseph decreed a two-week state of siege following Moïse’s killing, which stunned a nation grappling with some of the Western Hemisphere’s highest poverty, violence and political instability.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Family happy to escape extortionists in Spanish Town
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Patrick Green still has a bullet lodged in his back and another in his left hand but he is convinced that he is abundantly blessed.
The 53-year-old says he fled extortionists who preyed on him when he ran a restaurant in St Catherine. He and his wife Yvonne now operate a food truck in the much more peaceful Ocho Rios.
Ten years ago, Green said, two men demanded cash from him as 'protection' for the small restaurant he had operated for 15 years on Marl Road in Spanish Town.
“Dem use to come and ask for money and I give them. Then soon after they started to demand some big money and I told them I couldn't afford [what] dem asking for,” he explained.
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In what he described as his most traumatic experience yet, he said, he was shot three times.
“I was hospitalised for 18 days and even now me still have two of the bullets in my body. One lodge in my back and one in my hand. Is just God save me because the guy pointed the gun straight to my face and the bullet end up fly through my hand. Then him just put it down to my lower half and start to shoot,” Green recalled. “Me and nobody never have nothing else, so is just the money the boys was hungry for.”
Even today he feels betrayed by the community he once called home.
“We lived in that community all my life so to leave there was not easy, because we had to start afresh making new friends and all; but it is going good so far,” Yvonne Green told the Jamaica Observer. “We don't complain though because it is for our peace of mind and a better environment for our children.”
The Greens now serve up hot meals from the back of their truck to loyal customers.
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“Back home, business was better because it was faster and we never had to pay rent for house and all. But, we have our supporters too and we make ends meet,” Yvonne Green said. “I'm also happy for where I am now because at one point, I remember I never use to come out because if I hear any type of loud sound I would jump and feel scared.”
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New York declares gun violence a 'disaster emergency'
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York's governor issued new emergency measures to fight gun violence yesterday as he made it easier for shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers.
Andrew Cuomo declared gun violence a “disaster emergency” against a backdrop of rising crime in New York City and across the United States. He unveiled special measures aimed at curbing an increase in shootings that have beset New York City since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in spring last year.
If you look at the recent numbers, more people are now dying from gun violence and crime than COVID,” Cuomo said in a press release.
“This is a national problem, but someone has to step up and address this problem because our future depends on it,” he added. The governor said he was appointing a special coordinator for the prevention of gun violence attached to the state's health services. The office will have to coordinate with social services, prison services, police forces and others. A special police unit to fight the trafficking of firearms from other states will also be created.
New York has some of the strictest gun laws in America but it is easy to travel and buy weapons in the neighbouring states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which are more laxCuomo also announced US$138 million of investment in intervention and prevention programmes, including US$76 million to create jobs for young people deemed most at risk.
The governor signed two laws into effect yesterday as well.
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One “public nuisance liability” law makes it easier for civilians to bring lawsuits against gun makers and dealers. Manufacturers have been largely exempt from liability by federal law, which the New York law will circumvent. The second is designed to prevent those wanted for crimes from being able to acquire a weapon.
These measures come as New York and the US face a sharp rise in crime since last summer.
The country's major cities saw a 30 per cent increase in homicides in 2020, with Republicans accusing Democratic leaders of negligence.
President Joe Biden introduced measures on June 23 to limit the flow of firearms but a divided Congress makes it difficult for Democrats to pass laws.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
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Fatal twist
Man who called police cries after cop kills his babymother after she attacked him
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
AARON Morgan, who was desperate to save his own life early yesterday
morning, called the police to come to his rescue after allegedly being
attacked with a knife in a domestic dispute, but a twist of events would
lead to 35-year-old Tashekia McLeod, the mother of his four-year-old son,
being shot and killed by the police, leaving him with self-blame and
regret.
Residents of Maverly in St Andrew, where McLeod resided, later took to busy
Molynes Road in protest, claiming police brutality.
They contend that the woman had been unfairly shot multiple times by a
policeman.
Reports are that, while holding a knife, she allegedly charged at the
policeman who, after reprimanding her and instructing her to drop the weapon
— even firing a warning shot to gain compliance — fired on her in the wee
hours of yesterday morning.
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The incident occurred at Morgan's home off Molynes Road, in the vicinity of
Seaward Drive, in St Andrew.
Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Communications Director Dennis Brooks said
yesterday that there was no available information which suggested that there
was police brutality or excessive use of force inthe incident.
Brooks said the police responded to a domestic violence call and when they
arrived they found McLeod behaving boisterously and sought to keep her away
from Morgan, adding that the woman attacked the police.
Meanwhile, Brooks explained that the police have been procuring less lethal
weapons and ensuring the proper training in how they are are to be used in
the execution of their duties.
He, however, stated that the constabulary is aware that less lethal weapons
can have lethal implications for policemen and women, depending on the
circumstances.
According to Morgan, the mother of his child attempted to attack the police
after she was kicked by one of them.
He indicated that he was at home when she turned up unannounced while he
was in the company of another woman.
An emotionally broken Morgan, who took breaks in-between speaking with the
Jamaica Observer, said that he had already started to move in his new
companion as loneliness was beginning to take a toll on him after McLeod
ended their relationship and relocated.
He said that their four-year-old son was at one point ordered into State
care and it had been McLeod's belief that he had colluded with government
authorities to have the boy taken away.
The father, however, said he insisted to McLeod that was not so, but that
did not stop the relationship from deteriorating.
“She a tell di police dem seh me attack har. Mi start tell di police dem
seh a nuh suh it go. When mi reach down likkle nearer, she rush mi wid di
knife in front a di officer dem, and mi a tell har fi stop. Mi kick off mi
slippers and run.
“From that time the officer dem shoulda tek weh di knife from har, but dem
mek she go siddung inna di van back and she put di knife inna har pants
foot,” recalled Morgan.
He continued: “The police put we [Morgan and his new partner] inna di front
part [of the service vehicle] and den a tell me seh mi fi go 'round a di
back wid har, and mi tell dem 'no', because she have the knife said
way."
“Mumma [McLeod] come out a di van and seh a she get injured, so a she fi
come inna di front a di police vehicle and we must go inna di back.” said
Morgan. “The police tell her seh him nuh want she come 'round here come
attack nobody, so she must stay a back. She turn to the police and seh
something, and right away mi see di police go 'round deh and kick har. That
was why she start retaliate and tek up di stone dem and fling after the
police dem and draw out di knife and start rush dem.”
He said the police did not act on the information he gave them that she had
been armed.
“When me tell dem bout di knife, dem shoulda really search har and tek the
knife from har. Bredda, dem never haffi kill har. Dem coulda shoot har inna
har foot and mek she drop di knife. It coming like seh ah all me cause dis,
because a me call dem fi come do justice, and [because] she a retaliate,
nobody nah look fi seh she probably crazy,” Morgan said.
He told the Observer that officers of the Child Protection and Family
Services Agency had taken their son from them, claiming that they were unfit
to care for him.
According to him, this was the beginning of regular fights between the
two.
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“Wi baby did deh a children's home and a dat cause the friction [as she
blamed me for giving away the child]. After counselling, we get back the
baby, but she keep on a nag me 'bout it all the while and a seh me give away
har baby and she left. No matter how much me tell har mi want har fi come
back, a di argument she bring up back. She moved out [and said she was not
coming back] and seh mi fi move on wid mi life. Mi just find somebody weh
day who start to come around,” said Morgan.
He explained that on a previous occasion McLeod had got upset when she
became aware that he had found a new partner.
“About two weeks aback she come yah come see di woman for the first time
and start gwaan bad. She start to ask who is she and all a dat. Mi tell har
seh mi ago rent out di room, plus mi want likkle company, because di place
silent and she nah come back,” said Morgan.
Sylton McLeod, father of the deceased, said he was concerned about the
well-being of his daughter's six children and how her funeral would be
funded, as he had no money to foot the upcoming expenses.
“My daughter is not a violent person. Only thing she do is drink. Mi nuh
have no money fi bury har ennuh, and a dat a my problem. She dead leaving
her six pickney. Mi never expect police woulda work suh. Dem kill har in
front di four-year-old,” the grandfather lamented.
In a statement yesterday, the Independent Commission of Investigations
(INDECOM) said it had begun probing the incident.
Reports reaching INDECOM said that McLeod had three weapons in her
possession — two knives and an ice pick.
Both members of the constabulary who were on the scene are set to be
interviewed by INDECOM later this week.
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
Police confirm pregnant St Ann woman, abducted, beaten
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
ST ANN, Jamaica— The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has released more information regarding an incident in which a pregnant woman was allegedly abducted in this parish yesterday.
The JCF, through its Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), told OBSERVER ONLINE that the woman was travelling in a taxi when she was abducted and beaten.
"There was an incident yesterday when the woman went into a taxi and she was taken to a location where she didn't want to go. She was assaulted. She managed to escape and go to hospital," the CCU said.
The woman, who buys and sells goods in St Ann, was still in hospital up to this morning.
She is involved in a matter that is currently before the courts.
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William and Harry reunite for Diana statue tribute
William and Harry reunite for Diana statue tribute
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)— Princes William and Harry set aside their differences on Thursday to unveil a new statue to their mother, Princess Diana, on what would have been her 60th birthday.
The brothers will take the wraps off the tribute in the garden of Diana's former London home at Kensington Palace, in a stripped-back ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.
When the project was announced in 2017, William, 39, and Harry, 36, said they hoped it would help visitors reflect on their mother's "life and her legacy".
Diana, who died aged 36 in 1997 in a high-speed Paris car crash, remains an enduring source of fascination.
On Tuesday, her 1981 Ford Escort -- an engagement present from Prince Charles -- was sold at auction to a South American museum for over £50,000 ($69,200/58,100 euros).
But despite royal aides describing Thursday's ceremony as a "very personal" family event, all eyes will be on her sons for any signs of visible tension.
As young boys, the brothers provided the enduring image from Diana's funeral, as they walked, heads bowed, behind her coffin past hushed crowds in central London.
When they assumed more royal duties, they shared household staff and frequently appeared together to promote mutual causes, many of which were championed by their mother.
For a time, the brothers and their wives were dubbed "The Fab Four", seen as modernising the royal family and making it more appealing to a younger generation.
But their once-close relationship has visibly soured. Royal biographer Robert Lacey has even called the bad blood the most serious royal conflict for generations.
There have always been tensions between the so-called "heir and the spare", he said in publicity for his new book "Battle of Brothers", "but nothing so profound as this".
Harry confirmed rumours that he and William had fallen out in a 2019 television interview, revealing that they were "on different paths".
The former British Army captain -- seen as more impulsive than his elder brother, who is second-in-line to the throne -- now lives with his wife, Meghan, in the United States.
The couple, who have two young children, have since complained about the suffocating nature of royal life and how it affected their mental health.
Most pointedly, they accused an unnamed senior royal of racism, claiming they had asked what colour skin their unborn son, Archie, would have, as Meghan is mixed race.
As the royal family promised an investigation, and focus turned to diversity in the palace, William shot back, telling reporters: "We are very much not a racist family."
Harry, who reportedly flew back from California last week, was last in Britain in April for the funeral of his grandfather, Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip.
He was seen talking to William after the service at Windsor Castle. But there has been little indication of any thaw in their frosty ties.
William's wife, Kate, has said she has yet to be introduced to Harry and Meghan's daughter, Lilibet Diana, who was born last month.
And last week, royal officials appeared to contradict Harry's claims that he had been cut off financially since his move, as they published the latest accounts.
Omid Scobie, who wrote a sympathetic biography of Harry and Meghan about their shock move to the United States, said Thursday's meeting could help mend fences.
The statue unveiling could be "the icebreaker that is needed", he told reporters in London recently. "There's a lot to be discussed.
"William and Harry -- and, it has been reported, Meghan -- are expected to meet again in June next year for celebrations of their grandmother's 70 years as queen.
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