<p><strong style="font-style: italic;">Trigger warning: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised.</strong></p>

<p>Shocking new details have emerged in the trial of Dylan Thomas, the 24-year-old heir to the UK’s Peter’s Food Services worth Rs 2,500 crore (Nearly $295 million) who is accused of murdering his childhood friend and roommate, William Bush, on Christmas Eve 2023. Prosecutors say Thomas stabbed Bush 37 times, with 13 of the wounds focused on Bush’s neck.</p>

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<h2><strong>The attack on Christmas Eve</strong></h2>

<p>The attack took place on Christmas Eve when Thomas invited Bush to his room to meet before the holidays. What followed was a brutal stabbing. Bush was stabbed 37 times, and 13 of those wounds were to his neck. As Bush tried to escape, he left a trail of blood through the house. He was killed on the patio when Thomas cut an artery in his neck. Neighbours reported hearing “screams of horror” during the attack.</p>

<p>Thomas had searched online for "anatomy of the neck" before the crime, as reported by the <em>NY Post.</em></p>

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<p>Bush’s girlfriend, Ella Jeffries, told the court that Thomas had expressed violent thoughts about Bush and that Bush had started locking his door at night, afraid of his roommate’s behaviour.</p>

<p>Thomas' mental health is a key focus in his trial. After his arrest, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Earlier in the year, he had also been detained for trying to climb the fence at Buckingham Palace. Psychiatrists disagree on whether he was mentally ill when the murder took place. Thomas has admitted to manslaughter but denied murder, so the jury must decide if his actions were planned or affected by his mental illness. The trial is still ongoing as the court reviews the troubling details of the case.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>


Trigger warning: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised. Shocking new details have emerged in the trial of Dylan Thomas, the 24-year-old heir to the UK’s Peter’s Food Services worth Rs 2,500 crore (Nearly $295 million) who is accused of murdering his childhood friend and roommate, William Bush, on Christmas Eve 2023.

Trigger warning: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised. Shocking new details have emerged in the trial of Dylan Thomas, the 24-year-old heir to the UK’s Peter’s Food Services worth Rs 2,500 crore (Nearly $295 million) who is accused of murdering his childhood friend and roommate, William Bush, on Christmas Eve 2023. Prosecutors say Thomas stabbed Bush 37 times, with 13 of the wounds focused on Bush’s neck. Also read | Sam Altman criticises Elon Musk over AI chatbot Grok’s response to US presidential candidates The attack on Christmas Eve The attack took place on Christmas Eve when Thomas invited Bush to his room to meet before the holidays. What followed was a brutal stabbing. Bush was stabbed 37 times, and 13 of those wounds were to his neck. As Bush tried to escape, he left a trail of blood through the house. He was killed on the patio when Thomas cut an artery in his neck. Neighbours reported hearing “screams of horror” during the attack. Thomas had searched online for "anatomy of the neck" before the crime, as reported by the NY Post. Also read | Gaza: 26 killed, 59 missing as Israeli air strike levels residential building Bush’s girlfriend, Ella Jeffries, told the court that Thomas had expressed violent thoughts about Bush and that Bush had started locking his door at night, afraid of his roommate’s behaviour. Thomas' mental health is a key focus in his trial. After his arrest, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Earlier in the year, he had also been detained for trying to climb the fence at Buckingham Palace. Psychiatrists disagree on whether he was mentally ill when the murder took place. Thomas has admitted to manslaughter but denied murder, so the jury must decide if his actions were planned or affected by his mental illness. The trial is still ongoing as the court reviews the troubling details of the case. (With inputs from agencies)

Dylan Thomas, heir to $295 million food chain, accused of brutally stabbing friend 37 times

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<p>The ruling could not have been more clear.</p>

<p>One of soccer’s six regional bodies had engaged in discriminatory behavior against a female official by hindering her chances of getting a seat on its board and a leadership position with the sport’s global governing body, FIFA.</p>

<p>The official, Mariyam Mohamed, also convinced judges at sports’ top court that an influential Kuwaiti sheikh had actively interfered in elections held by the Asian Football Confederation in 2019 to achieve his desired outcome.</p>

<p>The full ruling, which has not been published, was obtained by The New York Times. In it, a panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland concluded that the inaction by Asian soccer officials over several months amounted to a “denial of justice” for Mohamed. Yet two months since the decision was announced, the effect of what appears to be a powerful denunciation of ethics breaches and a disregard for women’s rights has had all the effect of a snowball hitting a tank.</p>

<p>Nothing has happened.</p>

<p>The tainted elections will not be rerun. The men who offered Mohamed inducements to drop out have not been punished. And soccer’s leaders have taken no action.</p>

<p>FIFA said in an email it had no comment, even though it previously insisted it would follow up on the court’s findings with soccer officials in Asia. Asian soccer’s governing body also declined to comment, saying its leaders had nothing to add to a January statement in which they had pledged the organization would review the findings.</p>

<p>For Mohamed, the silence has been maddening.</p>

<p>“It’s just a game for them, justice denial, the same process that I was in,” she said in a phone interview. “They’re waiting for time to pass by, and hoping I get fed up. Now the verdict has come, and it’s just very sad. I don’t know where else to go now.”</p>

<p>Mohamed, who filed her complaints to the Asian federation’s disciplinary department in May 2019, says she initially celebrated the ruling, but came to realize it may amount to a Pyrrhic victory.</p>

<p>She has not been contacted by officials from the AFC, she said. Nor has she heard from ethics investigators from FIFA, even though the organization’s rules state that gender discrimination is “strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion.”</p>

<p>The case and its aftermath have highlighted how power works in global sports. It shows how a tainted Gulf royal linked to other cases of corruption has been able to exert significant control over one of soccer’s largest governing bodies even though he has no official role in its affairs. And it shows how a strategy of delay can be its own kind of injustice.</p>

<p>Mohamed’s case had roots in FIFA’s response to its own problems with discrimination: To address a lack of women on its governing board, the organization since 2013 set aside specific seats for women, starting with one voting member in 2013 and now a minimum of one from each of FIFA’s six regional confederations.</p>

<p>Mohamed, a former soccer player and coach from the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, had hoped to win the AFC’s spot in a vote in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in April 2019. It did not take her long to realize that the power brokers of Asian soccer had already decided the election’s outcome.</p>

<p>She filed her first complaints about the election to the Asian confederation’s disciplinary department a month later. Emails show the organization responded to her inquiries by insisting it had begun an investigation, although it appears little was done. The AFC, citing confidentiality, refused to supply any evidence of its investigation to the court.</p>

<p>At a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport last July, the AFC hardly put up a defense. Its lawyers offered no witnesses to challenge Mohamed’s testimony that a top confederation official and the head of the soccer federation of Qatar had been present in a luxury hotel suite when the Kuwaiti sheikh, Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, told Mohamed he had decided that his preferred candidate, Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh, would be elected as the AFC’s female representative to the FIFA Council.</p>

<p>Mohamed was told she should drop her candidacy, and do so within 24 hours. She later claimed, in testimony that went unchallenged by the AFC, that Sheikh Ahmad attempted to mollify her by saying he had so much sway in international soccer circles that he could obtain for her “any other position of her choosing at the AFC or FIFA” in exchange for her withdrawal.</p>

<p>By this point, Sheikh Ahmad had no official role in soccer, having resigned his position on the FIFA Council in 2017 after allegations emerged in a U.S. federal court that he had bribed Asian officials. But Mohamed’s decision to take her case to court provided a rare public glimpse into his continuing stature as a power broker in global sports through his role as the president of the Olympic Council of Asia, an organization created by his father in 1982.</p>

<p>At a 2013 International Olympic Committee meeting, for example, Sheikh Ahmad’s support helped Thomas Bach secure the IOC presidency and also deliver the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo. Since he was indicted in a forgery case unrelated to sports in 2018, he has “self-suspended” from two prominent Olympic roles. But his opinion still carries weight.</p>

<p>Before the AFC’s 2019 elections, his legal troubles did not seem to be an issue. A list of his favored candidates was distributed to AFC voters on the eve of the elections and, aware of the talks with Mohamed and of Sheikh Ahmad’s preference for a different candidate, the leaders of several federations pressured Mohamed to drop out, she said. She declined to withdraw, and lost the vote, 31-15. Every candidate on Sheikh Ahmad’s list, however, was elected to seats on the AFC’s executive board or, as in Kiron’s case, as a confederation representative to FIFA.</p>

<p>After reviewing the evidence presented by Mohamed and her lawyers, the CAS panel made clear in the summary of its decision that it agreed with her version of the events. The panel confirmed that the 2019 elections had breached FIFA and AFC rules on gender discrimination. It concluded that Sheikh Ahmad had tried to influence the outcome, and that the AFC had denied Mohamed justice by not making a ruling on her complaint. It did, however, also say that by not bowing out of the elections, Mohamed ensured the sheikh’s efforts to influence the election in her case were not effective.</p>

<p>But the court said it was powerless to order that the flawed elections be annulled, or to punish any of the individuals accused of interfering with them. Any decision on further action was for FIFA, and the AFC, to decide, the court said.</p>

<p>Because of the rules governing the court, the panel’s full findings have been cloaked in secrecy since the verdict was announced on Jan. 25.</p>

<p>“If nothing happens it is a disgrace for FIFA, the AFC, and undermines the authority of CAS indirectly,” said Miguel Maduro, the former FIFA governance head who gave evidence in Mohamed’s case. “This award and what follows tells us at once that CAS has exposed corruption at the highest level of elections in football and at the same time tells us they cannot do anything about it.”</p>

<p>Maduro added that at the very least, FIFA should have initiated an ethics inquiry after the ruling. To date, it has not.</p>

<p>Such a move, though, would be extremely sensitive for soccer’s global leadership. The FIFA official responsible for overseeing the 2019 election, Eduardo Ache, told the CAS panel that soccer’s guidelines to improve female representation were mere recommendations. The panel said Ache’s evidence suggested he was “prepared to accept any discrimination provided at least one woman was elected to FIFA.”</p>

<p>But pressing for discipline in the case also could be uncomfortable for FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, who relies on the support of national and regional soccer leaders to push his agenda. He recently spent two weeks touring Africa, for example, to ensure that his favored candidate, a South African billionaire with no high-level experience in soccer administration, was elected president of the continent’s regional confederation. And he is unlikely to press for discipline against the leader of Qatar’s soccer federation — reportedly present when Mohamed was offered inducements to step aside — or any other Asian leader a year before Qatar hosts the 2022 World Cup.</p>

<p>The longer the full ruling in Mohamed’s case goes unpublished, though, the more it will give the appearance soccer’s leaders are trying to brush a problematic situation under the carpet, said Johan Lindholm, a professor of law at Umea University in Sweden who has published a book on CAS.</p>

<p>“Whether it’s because of bad PR or there are other things going on, then you would probably want to keep it as secret as possible,” Lindholm said.</p>


The ruling could not have been more clear. One of soccer’s six regional bodies had engaged in discriminatory behavior against a female official by hindering her chances of getting a seat on its board and a leadership position with the sport’s global governing body, FIFA.

The ruling could not have been more clear. One of soccer’s six regional bodies had engaged in discriminatory behavior against a female official by hindering her chances of getting a seat on its board and a leadership position with the sport’s global governing body, FIFA. The official, Mariyam Mohamed, also convinced judges at sports’ top court that an influential Kuwaiti sheikh had actively interfered in elections held by the Asian Football Confederation in 2019 to achieve his desired outcome. The full ruling, which has not been published, was obtained by The New York Times. In it, a panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland concluded that the inaction by Asian soccer officials over several months amounted to a “denial of justice” for Mohamed. Yet two months since the decision was announced, the effect of what appears to be a powerful denunciation of ethics breaches and a disregard for women’s rights has had all the effect of a snowball hitting a tank. Nothing has happened. The tainted elections will not be rerun. The men who offered Mohamed inducements to drop out have not been punished. And soccer’s leaders have taken no action. FIFA said in an email it had no comment, even though it previously insisted it would follow up on the court’s findings with soccer officials in Asia. Asian soccer’s governing body also declined to comment, saying its leaders had nothing to add to a January statement in which they had pledged the organization would review the findings. For Mohamed, the silence has been maddening. “It’s just a game for them, justice denial, the same process that I was in,” she said in a phone interview. “They’re waiting for time to pass by, and hoping I get fed up. Now the verdict has come, and it’s just very sad. I don’t know where else to go now.” Mohamed, who filed her complaints to the Asian federation’s disciplinary department in May 2019, says she initially celebrated the ruling, but came to realize it may amount to a Pyrrhic victory. She has not been contacted by officials from the AFC, she said. Nor has she heard from ethics investigators from FIFA, even though the organization’s rules state that gender discrimination is “strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion.” The case and its aftermath have highlighted how power works in global sports. It shows how a tainted Gulf royal linked to other cases of corruption has been able to exert significant control over one of soccer’s largest governing bodies even though he has no official role in its affairs. And it shows how a strategy of delay can be its own kind of injustice. Mohamed’s case had roots in FIFA’s response to its own problems with discrimination: To address a lack of women on its governing board, the organization since 2013 set aside specific seats for women, starting with one voting member in 2013 and now a minimum of one from each of FIFA’s six regional confederations. Mohamed, a former soccer player and coach from the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, had hoped to win the AFC’s spot in a vote in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in April 2019. It did not take her long to realize that the power brokers of Asian soccer had already decided the election’s outcome. She filed her first complaints about the election to the Asian confederation’s disciplinary department a month later. Emails show the organization responded to her inquiries by insisting it had begun an investigation, although it appears little was done. The AFC, citing confidentiality, refused to supply any evidence of its investigation to the court. At a hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport last July, the AFC hardly put up a defense. Its lawyers offered no witnesses to challenge Mohamed’s testimony that a top confederation official and the head of the soccer federation of Qatar had been present in a luxury hotel suite when the Kuwaiti sheikh, Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, told Mohamed he had decided that his preferred candidate, Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh, would be elected as the AFC’s female representative to the FIFA Council. Mohamed was told she should drop her candidacy, and do so within 24 hours. She later claimed, in testimony that went unchallenged by the AFC, that Sheikh Ahmad attempted to mollify her by saying he had so much sway in international soccer circles that he could obtain for her “any other position of her choosing at the AFC or FIFA” in exchange for her withdrawal. By this point, Sheikh Ahmad had no official role in soccer, having resigned his position on the FIFA Council in 2017 after allegations emerged in a U.S. federal court that he had bribed Asian officials. But Mohamed’s decision to take her case to court provided a rare public glimpse into his continuing stature as a power broker in global sports through his role as the president of the Olympic Council of Asia, an organization created by his father in 1982. At a 2013 International Olympic Committee meeting, for example, Sheikh Ahmad’s support helped Thomas Bach secure the IOC presidency and also deliver the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo. Since he was indicted in a forgery case unrelated to sports in 2018, he has “self-suspended” from two prominent Olympic roles. But his opinion still carries weight. Before the AFC’s 2019 elections, his legal troubles did not seem to be an issue. A list of his favored candidates was distributed to AFC voters on the eve of the elections and, aware of the talks with Mohamed and of Sheikh Ahmad’s preference for a different candidate, the leaders of several federations pressured Mohamed to drop out, she said. She declined to withdraw, and lost the vote, 31-15. Every candidate on Sheikh Ahmad’s list, however, was elected to seats on the AFC’s executive board or, as in Kiron’s case, as a confederation representative to FIFA. After reviewing the evidence presented by Mohamed and her lawyers, the CAS panel made clear in the summary of its decision that it agreed with her version of the events. The panel confirmed that the 2019 elections had breached FIFA and AFC rules on gender discrimination. It concluded that Sheikh Ahmad had tried to influence the outcome, and that the AFC had denied Mohamed justice by not making a ruling on her complaint. It did, however, also say that by not bowing out of the elections, Mohamed ensured the sheikh’s efforts to influence the election in her case were not effective. But the court said it was powerless to order that the flawed elections be annulled, or to punish any of the individuals accused of interfering with them. Any decision on further action was for FIFA, and the AFC, to decide, the court said. Because of the rules governing the court, the panel’s full findings have been cloaked in secrecy since the verdict was announced on Jan. 25. “If nothing happens it is a disgrace for FIFA, the AFC, and undermines the authority of CAS indirectly,” said Miguel Maduro, the former FIFA governance head who gave evidence in Mohamed’s case. “This award and what follows tells us at once that CAS has exposed corruption at the highest level of elections in football and at the same time tells us they cannot do anything about it.” Maduro added that at the very least, FIFA should have initiated an ethics inquiry after the ruling. To date, it has not. Such a move, though, would be extremely sensitive for soccer’s global leadership. The FIFA official responsible for overseeing the 2019 election, Eduardo Ache, told the CAS panel that soccer’s guidelines to improve female representation were mere recommendations. The panel said Ache’s evidence suggested he was “prepared to accept any discrimination provided at least one woman was elected to FIFA.” But pressing for discipline in the case also could be uncomfortable for FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, who relies on the support of national and regional soccer leaders to push his agenda. He recently spent two weeks touring Africa, for example, to ensure that his favored candidate, a South African billionaire with no high-level experience in soccer administration, was elected president of the continent’s regional confederation. And he is unlikely to press for discipline against the leader of Qatar’s soccer federation — reportedly present when Mohamed was offered inducements to step aside — or any other Asian leader a year before Qatar hosts the 2022 World Cup. The longer the full ruling in Mohamed’s case goes unpublished, though, the more it will give the appearance soccer’s leaders are trying to brush a problematic situation under the carpet, said Johan Lindholm, a professor of law at Umea University in Sweden who has published a book on CAS. “Whether it’s because of bad PR or there are other things going on, then you would probably want to keep it as secret as possible,” Lindholm said.

A soccer official proved her discrimination case. No one was punished.

<p>Earlier this month, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey shocked the entire world. Now, the reports are coming, that Meghan's estranged&nbsp;father Thomas Markle has taken a short trip up to Montecito, California.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Reportedly, he drove to Oprah's home, which is just miles away from Meghna and Harry's mansion, in an attempt to communicate with Oprah and to personally deliver a letter&nbsp;asking her to interview him.</p>

<p><strong><a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/from-suicide-to-racist-attack-on-baby-archie-10-big-reveals-from-prince-harry-meghan-markle-bombshell-interview-368810" hreflang="en">From suicide to racist attack on baby Archie: 10 big reveals from Prince Harry-Meghan Markle bombshell interview</a></strong><br />
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The Sun has shared some images&nbsp;showing the 76-year-old hand-delivering a letter to a security guard wearing a mask outside Winfrey's Montecito estate. "Thomas delivered a letter to Oprah asking her to contact him so he could tell his side of the story," an insider said, clarifying that the note was not for the Royal couple and "meant for Oprah'', to bring out his side of the story</p>

<p><a href="http://13.235.153.162/entertainment/royal-concerns-on-archies-skin-colour-to-having-suicidal-thoughts-meghan-markle-tells-all-in-oprah-interview-368751" hreflang="en">Royal concerns on Archie's skin colour to having suicidal thoughts, Meghan Markle tells all in Oprah interview</a>.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
Thomas has previously stated that he wants to talk to Oprah about his relationship with Meghan. He told The Sun in January 2020, “I was going to write Oprah a letter asking her to let me have an opportunity to speak.”<br />
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"Thomas watched the interview she did with them and feels he deserves a chance to have his say," the source added.</p>

<p><a href="http://13.235.153.162/world/not-a-racist-family-prince-william-defends-royal-family-against-meghan-markles-accusation-369712" hreflang="en">'Not a racist family': Prince William defends Royal Family against Meghan Markle's accusation</a><br />
<br />
Earlier this month, in a tell-all interview, Meghan opened up to Oprah about her father's "betrayal" after he posed for paparazzi photos ahead of her wedding day. The duchess revealed that Thomas lied to her back then and said he was "absolutely not" working with the press when in reality, he was helping the tabloids. "'I just need you to tell me. And if you tell me the truth, we can help.' And he wasn't able to do that," Meghan recalled, revealing that she and Harry tried to offer him protection from the tabloid.&nbsp;<br />
<br />
However, two days after Oprah's interview, Thomas appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and responded to his daughter's allegations against the British royal family and their racist remark on her child. The senior Markle termed it as just a <a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/lifestyle/news-meghan-markles-father-dismisses-her-racist-allegation-against-the-royal-family-the-wholething-about-colouris-bullst-369151">'dumb question</a>' and said he did not think the royal family was racist and all of it was&nbsp;bulls**t.&nbsp;</p>


Earlier this month, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey shocked the entire world. Now, the reports are coming, that Meghan's estranged father Thomas Markle has taken a short trip up to Montecito, California.

Earlier this month, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey shocked the entire world. Now, the reports are coming, that Meghan's estranged father Thomas Markle has taken a short trip up to Montecito, California. Reportedly, he drove to Oprah's home, which is just miles away from Meghna and Harry's mansion, in an attempt to communicate with Oprah and to personally deliver a letter asking her to interview him. From suicide to racist attack on baby Archie: 10 big reveals from Prince Harry-Meghan Markle bombshell interview The Sun has shared some images showing the 76-year-old hand-delivering a letter to a security guard wearing a mask outside Winfrey's Montecito estate. "Thomas delivered a letter to Oprah asking her to contact him so he could tell his side of the story," an insider said, clarifying that the note was not for the Royal couple and "meant for Oprah'', to bring out his side of the story Royal concerns on Archie's skin colour to having suicidal thoughts, Meghan Markle tells all in Oprah interview. Thomas has previously stated that he wants to talk to Oprah about his relationship with Meghan. He told The Sun in January 2020, “I was going to write Oprah a letter asking her to let me have an opportunity to speak.” "Thomas watched the interview she did with them and feels he deserves a chance to have his say," the source added. 'Not a racist family': Prince William defends Royal Family against Meghan Markle's accusation Earlier this month, in a tell-all interview, Meghan opened up to Oprah about her father's "betrayal" after he posed for paparazzi photos ahead of her wedding day. The duchess revealed that Thomas lied to her back then and said he was "absolutely not" working with the press when in reality, he was helping the tabloids. "'I just need you to tell me. And if you tell me the truth, we can help.' And he wasn't able to do that," Meghan recalled, revealing that she and Harry tried to offer him protection from the tabloid. However, two days after Oprah's interview, Thomas appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and responded to his daughter's allegations against the British royal family and their racist remark on her child. The senior Markle termed it as just a 'dumb question' and said he did not think the royal family was racist and all of it was bulls**t.

Meghan Markle's dad dropped letter at Oprah Winfrey's home asking for an interview: Report

<p>American singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett Atkins, along with his daughters made a special appearance on `The Disney Family Singalong`.<br />
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According to a magazine, the 30-year-old singer's daughters, 4-and-a-half-year-old Willa Gray, and 2-and-a-half-year-old Ada James joined their dad to sing `Do You Want to Build a Snowman` from `Frozen` for the ABC special Thursday night (local time), which also featured performances from Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, and the `High School Musical` cast.</p>

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<p>During the special appearance, the girls were seen dressed up as princesses Elsa and Anna while the father-daughter trio sang their hearts out from their front porch, tossing confetti around to mimic snow.<br />
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The Akins family's love Disney love was also channelled at their Halloween party last year, when the foursome dressed up as characters from `The Little Mermaid`, with Thomas Rhett going as Prince Eric to Willa`s Ariel.<br />
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In February, Rhett and wife Lauren Akins welcomed the family's newest addition, Lennon Love. Thomas Rhett shared on Instagram after welcoming Lennon, "It was such a joy to watch this little angel be brought into the world. My wife is just incredible through the entire birth".<br />
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The father of three added that watching Willa and Ada meet Lennon for the first time "was probably the sweetest thing I`ve ever seen in my whole life! Ada James and Willa Gray are going to be the best big sisters on the planet. The Lord is so good and I`m so grateful for my beautiful growing family!! Y`all pray for us as we switch from man on man defence to the zone."&nbsp;</p>


American singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett Atkins, along with his daughters made a special appearance on `The Disney Family Singalong`. According to a magazine, the 30-year-old singer's daughters, 4-and-a-half-year-old Willa Gray, and 2-and-a-half-year-old Ada James joined their dad to sing `Do You Want to Build a Snowman` from `Frozen` for the ABC special Thursday night (local time), which also featured performances from Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, and the `High School Musical` cast.

American singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett Atkins, along with his daughters made a special appearance on `The Disney Family Singalong`. According to a magazine, the 30-year-old singer's daughters, 4-and-a-half-year-old Willa Gray, and 2-and-a-half-year-old Ada James joined their dad to sing `Do You Want to Build a Snowman` from `Frozen` for the ABC special Thursday night (local time), which also featured performances from Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, and the `High School Musical` cast. View this post on Instagram Growing up too fast A post shared by ThomasRhettAkins (@thomasrhettakins) on Jan 23, 2020 at 5:34am PST × During the special appearance, the girls were seen dressed up as princesses Elsa and Anna while the father-daughter trio sang their hearts out from their front porch, tossing confetti around to mimic snow. The Akins family's love Disney love was also channelled at their Halloween party last year, when the foursome dressed up as characters from `The Little Mermaid`, with Thomas Rhett going as Prince Eric to Willa`s Ariel. In February, Rhett and wife Lauren Akins welcomed the family's newest addition, Lennon Love. Thomas Rhett shared on Instagram after welcoming Lennon, "It was such a joy to watch this little angel be brought into the world. My wife is just incredible through the entire birth". The father of three added that watching Willa and Ada meet Lennon for the first time "was probably the sweetest thing I`ve ever seen in my whole life! Ada James and Willa Gray are going to be the best big sisters on the planet. The Lord is so good and I`m so grateful for my beautiful growing family!! Y`all pray for us as we switch from man on man defence to the zone."

Thomas Rhett, daughters perform song from 'Frozen' for 'Disney Singalong Special'

Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been charged with the murder of his ex-wife. He would be the first African leader who has been charged with the first domestic murder while in office.

Lesotho PM charged with murder of ex-wife

A blanket ban on Russia at the Rio de Janeiro Games would have had devastating consequences, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.<br />
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The IOC opted not to ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics after revelations of a wide state-backed doping programme across many sports. Instead, it chose a set of criteria for athletes to meet, including a clean doping past and sufficient testing at international events, that so far has allowed more than 250 out of the original 387 Russian athletes to be cleared for Rio.<br />
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Bach, speaking at the IOC session in the Brazilian city, said preventing clean athletes from competing and treating them as &quot;collateral damage&quot; would have been wrong. &quot;This blanket ban of the Russian Olympic Committee has been called by some the &#39;nuclear option&#39; and the innocent athletes would have to be considered as collateral damage,&quot; Bach said.<br />
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&quot;Leaving aside that such a comparison is completely out of any proportion when it comes to the rules of sport. Let us just for a moment consider the consequences of a &#39;nuclear option&#39;. The result is death and devastation.&nbsp;The cynical &#39;collateral damage approach&#39; is not what the Olympic Movement stands for.&quot;<br />
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Several anti-doping bodies, including the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), as well as those from the United States, Canada and Germany, among others, had called on the IOC to implement a blanket ban on all Russian athletes. They expressed disappointment following the IOC&#39;s decision to allow some Russians to compete and accused the Games&#39; ruling body of lacking the leadership and courage to punish Russia.<br />
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&quot;What is not acceptable is the insinuation of some proponents of the blanket ban that those who do not share their opinions are not fighting against doping,&quot; Bach said. &quot;On behalf of all these supporters, I reject this insinuation in the strongest terms.&nbsp;We may disagree how we get there but we all work toward the same goal of protecting clean athletes. Despite these discrepancies, we agree we must not allow such a situation to happen again,&quot; he added. Bach said the doping system needed completely restructuring.<br />
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&quot;Engagement and not isolation is the key to build a more robust anti-doping system,&quot; he said.<br />
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(Reuters)

Thomas Bach said preventing clean athletes from competing and treating them as 'collateral damage' would have been wrong

A blanket ban on Russia at the Rio de Janeiro Games would have had devastating consequences, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Tuesday. The IOC opted not to ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics after revelations of a wide state-backed doping programme across many sports. Instead, it chose a set of criteria for athletes to meet, including a clean doping past and sufficient testing at international events, that so far has allowed more than 250 out of the original 387 Russian athletes to be cleared for Rio. Bach, speaking at the IOC session in the Brazilian city, said preventing clean athletes from competing and treating them as "collateral damage" would have been wrong. "This blanket ban of the Russian Olympic Committee has been called by some the 'nuclear option' and the innocent athletes would have to be considered as collateral damage," Bach said. "Leaving aside that such a comparison is completely out of any proportion when it comes to the rules of sport. Let us just for a moment consider the consequences of a 'nuclear option'. The result is death and devastation. The cynical 'collateral damage approach' is not what the Olympic Movement stands for." Several anti-doping bodies, including the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), as well as those from the United States, Canada and Germany, among others, had called on the IOC to implement a blanket ban on all Russian athletes. They expressed disappointment following the IOC's decision to allow some Russians to compete and accused the Games' ruling body of lacking the leadership and courage to punish Russia. "What is not acceptable is the insinuation of some proponents of the blanket ban that those who do not share their opinions are not fighting against doping," Bach said. "On behalf of all these supporters, I reject this insinuation in the strongest terms. We may disagree how we get there but we all work toward the same goal of protecting clean athletes. Despite these discrepancies, we agree we must not allow such a situation to happen again," he added. Bach said the doping system needed completely restructuring. "Engagement and not isolation is the key to build a more robust anti-doping system," he said. (Reuters)

IOC president says blanket Rio ban on Russia would have been disastrous

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