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BRITAIN’S Prince Charles arrived in Barbados as the Caribbean nation celebrates the founding of a republic and the removal of the queen as sovereign, cutting 400 years of imperial ties.

Barbados won independence from Britain in 1966 but has retained Queen Elizabeth as its official sovereign. She will be replaced with a Barbadian president in an inauguration ceremony to be held when the country celebrates independence today.

The celebration began yesterday with Sandra Mason being inaugurated today as the country’s first president to serve as a largely symbolic figure behind Prime Minister Mia Mottley. | Reuters

GREECE’S foreign ministry urged Greek nationals to leave Ethiopia yesterday, warning that conditions in the war-torn country were becoming “increasingly unpredictable”.

It recommended that they leave the country on available commercial flights as soon as possible, adding that Greeks who chose to remain should limit their movements, stock up on food, water and fuel, and stay in contact with the Greek embassy in Addis Ababa.

The US, Canada and other nations have also told their citizens to leave the country amid fears that Tigrayan rebels could march on the capital. | AFP

Solomon Islands

FIJI joined an international peacekeeping force keeping a lid on simmering tensions in the riot-hit Solomon Islands yesterday, as the Red Cross warned of food shortages in the Pacific nation’s capital.

The deployment of troops to maintain law and order in the wake of deadly anti-government protests lifts the number of peacekeepers to about 200 – mostly Australian, with a contribution of at least 34 from Papua New Guinea.

The Solomons crisis erupted last Wednesday when protests over government policies turned violent, fuelled by poverty, unemployment and inter-island rivalries in the nation of 800 000. | AFP

THOUSANDS of people mobbed a Pakistan police station, setting fire to it and nearby checkpoints after demanding that officers hand over a man accused of burning the Qur’an, police said yesterday.

The crowd of up to 5 000 people surrounded the station in Charsadda in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday night, also setting fire to more than 30 cars.

The identity or religon of the accused has not been disclosed by police. | AFP

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