Meghan and Harry release Archie christening photos - CNN International

The baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was christened in Windsor on Saturday, exactly two months after Archie was born on May 6. Photos taken after the private ceremony were released hours later.

The snaps were taken by fashion photographer Chris Allerton in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor, the same room where Harry and Meghan took some of their wedding pictures last year.

One of the photos shows Archie with his parents, his grandfather the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Meghan's mother Doria Ragland, and two sisters of Princess Diana, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes.

A second, black and white photo, pictured just Archie, Meghan and Harry in the Rose Garden at the castle.

Harry and Meghan were criticized by some for keeping Archie out of the spotlight, especially after it emerged recently that British taxpayers footed a £2.4 million (about $3 million) bill for their home renovation.

While royal baptisms have been private, cameras have been allowed to capture the arrivals of the family and their guests when the three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge -- George, Charlotte and Louis -- were christened.

The christening was held at a private chapel in Windsor Castle. The intimate service was officiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Harry was christened at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in 1984, and he and Meghan wed there in May 2018.

Only a few guests were invited to witness the baptism, according to Buckingham Palace. Among them were the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Queen skipped the event due to a prior engagement, according to the palace.

Seventh in line to the throne, Archie Harrison does not qualify immediately for the title of prince and the Sussexes have chosen not to use any title at all for their son.

While Archie will have the right to use his father's second peerage title, Earl of Dumbarton -- his parents have indicated they won't be using it for him.

However, when Prince Charles becomes King, Prince Harry's son will automatically become His Royal Highness Prince Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.

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Boris says he compared Muslim women to letterboxes to 'defend right of women to wear burkas' - Guardian News

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North Korea: Released Australian Student Was Spying - TIME

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Iran: UK 'should be scared' of retaliation over seized tanker - New York Post

Iran said Saturday the United Kingdom should be “scared” of possible retaliation after the Royal Marines captured an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar.

“I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran’s retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker,” Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, a member of a powerful group of clerics, was quoted as saying in Fars, Iran’s semi-official news agency.

“We have shown that we will never remain silent against bullying … As we gave a staunch response to the American drone, the appropriate response to this illegal capture (of the tanker) will be given by Iran as well,” Reuters reported.

The tanker was seized on Thursday for trying to take oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.

Iran also repeated threats to increase its level of enriched uranium beyond limits stipulated in the 2015 nuclear deal, which the US exited.

“Americans directly and Europeans indirectly violated the deal,” a top aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a video posted Saturday on an Iranian website.

Ali Akbar Velayati, Khamenei’s adviser on international affairs, said in the video that increasing enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels was “unanimously agreed upon by every component of the establishment,” the Associated Press reported.

“We will show reaction exponentially as much as they violate it. We reduce our commitments as much as they reduce it,” said Velayati, Khamenei’s adviser on international affairs. “If they go back to fulfilling their commitments, we will do so as well.”

The video follows similar threats on Wednesday. President Trump responded to those earlier threats with a tweet warning the nation to “Be careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!”

Iran wants European leaders to offer a way for Tehran to avoid punishing economic sanctions, especially those targeting its crucial oil sales, that Trump put in place in the year since he pulled the US out of the pact.

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Alek Sigley: North Korea accuses Australian of 'spying' - BBC News

North Korea says an Australian student who had been detained for several days before being released had been "spying" for news outlets.

Alek Sigley, 29, was reported missing in late June, but was freed on Thursday after Swedish officials in Pyongyang met the North Korean government.

NK News, one of the websites to publish his writing, has rejected Pyongyang's claims that he spied for them.

It said his columns only "presented an apolitical view of life in Pyongyang".

Mr Sigley, a fluent Korean speaker, had been living in Pyongyang while studying a Master's at Kim Il-sung university and running a tourism business.

Mr Sigley has not commented on why he detained. Following his release, he flew to Japan, where his wife lives.

On Saturday, North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA said that Mr Sigley had "on numerous occasions transferred information, including photographs and analysis, that he gathered while travelling to every corner of Pyongyang using his status as an international student".

He had done this "upon request by anti-DPRK [North Korea] news outlets such as NK news", KCNA added.

The government decided to deport him on humanitarian grounds after he "honestly admitted that he had been spying... and repeatedly asked for our forgiveness for infringing on our sovereignty", it said.

North Korea often accuses foreigners detained in its country of espionage or "hostile acts".

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In a statement, NK News, a website specialising in North Korean news and analysis, said it appreciated "the DPRK's decision to promptly release Sigley on humanitarian grounds".

It said it had published six articles from Mr Sigley which showed "vignettes of ordinary daily life in the capital".

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"The six articles Alek published represent the full extent of his work with us and the idea that those columns, published transparently under his name between January and April 2019, are 'anti-state' in nature is a misrepresentation which we reject."

Mr Sidley had published an essay titled: "From Perth to Pyongyang: my life as an Aussie student at Kim Il Sung University", as well as articles about North Korean fashion, apps, and restaurants.

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Iran religious leader threatens UK over capture of oil tanker - Al Jazeera English

The United Kingdom should be "scared" of Tehran's possible reciprocal measures for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by the British navy in Gibraltar, the semi-official Fars news agency reported an Iranian religious leader as saying.

"I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker," Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, a member of the Assembly of Experts, a powerful religious body said on Saturday.

"We have shown that we will never remain silent against bullying ... As we gave a staunch response to the American drone, the appropriate response to this illegal capture [of the tanker] will be given by Iran as well," he said over the seizure of the supertanker in the British overseas territory.

British Royal Marines seized the supertanker Grace 1 on Thursday for trying to transport oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions in a move which drew Tehran's fury and could escalate its confrontation with the West.

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On Friday, the tanker's crew were being interviewed as witnesses in an effort to establish the nature of the cargo and its ultimate destination, a spokesperson for the British territory said.

The spokesperson said the 28-member crew, who have remained on board the supertanker, were mainly Indians with some Pakistanis and Ukrainians.

Later on Friday, Gibraltar said it had obtained an order extending the detention of the tanker by 14 days because there were grounds to believe it was breaking sanctions by taking oil to Syria.

Saudi seizure of tanker

Iranian officials also say that Saudi Arabia has been holding an Iranian oil tanker in the port of Jeddah since late April after the ship experienced engine failure. 

"There was an Iranian oil tanker that was on its way through the Suez Canal, carrying 1.2 billions of crude oil on April 30 off the port city of Jeddah," Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Tehran, said.

"It experienced an engine failure and sent a distress call before being saved by Saudi Arabia with 26 crew members on board," she also said.

She added: "It has been since fixed in the port city, but Saudis are charging Iranians $200,000 a day. Iran wants this vessel back but the cost is very high, around $20m. Saudi Arabia says they will not release the vessel until Iran pays the bill."

Iran downed a United States military drone on June 20 that it said was flying over one of its southern provinces on the Gulf. Washington said the drone was shot down over international waters.

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines.

The ship's seizure comes at a sensitive time as the EU mulls over how to respond to Iran announcing it will go beyond the maximum uranium enrichment level it agreed to in a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.

Tensions have mounted in the wake of Washington's unilateral decision last year to abandon the nuclear deal and hit Iran's crucial oil exports and financial transactions with biting sanctions.

Iran has accused the administration of US President Donald Trump of waging "economic war" against it with a campaign to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero.

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