When the new Princess of Wales arrived at the Order of the Garter service in Windsor last week in a vintage Alessandra Rich polka dot tea dress, I knew it would be moments before she was once again considered Diana’s double.

Diana also wore polka dots!

The two Princesses of Wales have been declared fashion-forward twins from the moment they stepped into the limelight. Diana wore a sheer skirt by Laura Ashley. Kate Middleton walked the runway in a sheer black dress.

They were both awkward, shy and wide-eyed. They both bought ballet flats on the King’s Road, so the word is they could be twins!

When Catherine, Princess of Wales wore polka dots to the Garter Service in Windsor, there were immediate but misplaced comparisons to Diana

Just because Diana occasionally wore polka dots doesn’t mean Kate is her doppelganger, says Liz Jones. Diana is pictured here at Ascot in 1988

Liz Jones suggests that no meaningful comparisons in style can be made between Diana, here in 1986, and Catherine, Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales is her own woman and should be allowed to make her own path. Kate is pictured here at this year’s Commonwealth Day Service

Body language experts call Catherine a “perfect copy” of the late PoW. When she appeared in the tailored Erdem for Commonwealth Day, “the whole look was reminiscent of Diana,” a prominent hairstylist told Newsweek.

No! There are no profound and meaningful similarities in their style, nor should there be.

Yes, Diana and Catherine supported Catherine Walker, Jenny Packham and milliner Philip Treacy. Both wore a puff sleeve, a bit off the shoulder. However, this applies to all women who need to dress formally for certain occasions.

There are only a limited number of designers at the couture level. And to put it bluntly, Diana wasn’t a style icon, but Catherine definitely was. Not Di’s fault, because she grew up in the 80’s. She was often badly advised, not at all worldly.

Even the revenge dress he wore to the Serpentine the night Charles revealed his infidelity on TV was too short and paired with black opaque tights. Those looks should be a thing of the past and Catherine should be able to create her own path.

Because she is her own person.

Just because she could wear Diana’s brooch doesn’t mean she spends every waking moment thinking about her.

She doesn’t live in the past and what good would that do? William was once quoted as saying, “No one will try to follow in my mother’s footsteps and what she did was amazing.” It’s about creating your own future and destiny, and Kate will be in it do a very good job.”

Being myopic about what Catherine is wearing is tantamount to over-analysis of Love Island: the blue of her Erdem skirt suit has been likened to the color of the Commonwealth flag by one expert.

I imagine Catherine just wants to look beautiful and appropriate most days.

To endlessly dwell on Diana is not only unimaginative, it’s sexist. We don’t compare the cut of William’s suits to his father’s; In fact, let’s hope, as Julie Burchill suggested, that William has nothing to do with his father at all.

But with women? We do it all the time. Even comparing Meghan to the late Duchess of Windsor, although nothing could be further from the truth.

Diana wasn’t a style icon, says Liz Jones. Even the so-called “revenge dress” was too short and worn with the wrong tights. Diana wore the Christina Stambolian dress to an event at the Serpentine Gallery in 1994

Some commenters like to point to similarities in the choice of design and designer. Diana is seen here embracing William and Harry aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in 1991

But the truth is, there aren’t many designers at the couture level, says Liz Jones. Pictured is the Princess of Wales welcoming Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden in 2018

Diana, Princess of Wales at Nottingham in 1992

Catherine, then Duchess of Cambridge, at Coatbridge, 2021

Ms Simpson was so fussy that she had her sheets ironed because they were crumpled during a nap. She was truly an ambassador for Dior, as the V&A exhibition proved.

It’s like women don’t have their own ideas that we always have to copy. That we’re living in the past. We need hands held.

Catherine is not like Diana. She radiates sunny optimism, stability and confidence. We used to be scared for Diana.

We thought: if she can’t be happy, then what do we hope for? We look at Catherine and all seems right with the world.

Islamabad — In the tiny, remote village of Bandli, high in the mountains of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, local officials distributed a somber list on Friday. On it are the names of eleven missing men. They are believed to be among hundreds of people crammed into an old fishing boat that sank thousands of miles from their homes off the coast of Greece by human traffickers last week as they tried to cross onto European soil.

It was one of the deadliest maritime disasters in Europe in decades.

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The Bandli men were among an estimated 400 to 750 people from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and other countries who were being carried on the fishing boat when it sank about 50 miles from the southern Greek city of Pylos on June 14.

An undated handout photo by the Hellenic Coast Guard shows migrants aboard a boat during a rescue operation before their boat capsized in the open sea off Greece, June 14, 2023. HELLENIC COAST GUARD/ Portal

Pakistan has been grappling with a total economic meltdown for months, prompting more and more people to risk their lives to reach Europe in search of a better future.

CBS News’ affiliate network, the BBC, sent a team from its Urdu channel World Service to Bundli, where they met Raja Anwar standing on the roof of his home, staring absently at the gate to his property.

His 38-year-old son, Abdul, sent word to Anwar that he would board the boat in Libya just before it departed on June 14.

“We had to take out a huge loan of 22 lakhs ($8,000) from our extended family to pay for his trip,” Anwar told the BBC.

He said his village had lost a young generation of men, including his son and four nephews, the youngest of whom, Owais Tariq, was just 19. All but one of the men are married with young children, he said.

The boat the would-be migrants were on had much less human capacity and when it became clear that it was capsizing, the captain reportedly abandoned the ship and abandoned them to their fate. Of the hundreds on the boat – which one group said may have included many children – only 104 were rescued. So far, the Greek authorities have recovered 82 bodies.

Most of the nationals of Pakistan were apparently on board the doomed ship. The country’s interior minister, Rana Sanaullah, told parliament on Friday that there were at least 350 Pakistanis on the boat, adding that a total of 281 families had contacted the government for help and information.

People offer their support to Raja Yousaf (right), whose son Raja Sajid is missing after a shipwreck off the Greek coast, in Bindian village in Kotli, a district of Pakistan’s Kashmir prefecture, Sunday, June 18, 2023. Nasir Mehmood / AP

Another 193 Pakistani families have already had DNA tested to match the remains of victims found or to keep the file as so many people are still officially missing after the shipwreck.

Pakistan has arrested several suspected human traffickers and their agents, who have told authorities their ringleader is based in Libya, from where the boat set sail for the North African coast.

These people smugglers reportedly charged around $8,000 each to illegally ferry the Pakistani nationals from Libya across the Mediterranean to Europe — a dangerous sea crossing that has become increasingly busy as European nations have worked to seal off their land borders. The migrants were flown legally to Dubai, Egypt and directly to Libya, the authorities said.

An official investigation is underway to identify and arrest everyone else involved in people smuggling, Sanaullah said, adding that the Pakistani government is also working to recommend legislative changes to increase the likelihood of convictions in such cases.

The interior minister said not a single trafficker had been convicted in Pakistan for more than five years, adding that this was mainly because victims’ families agreed to a pardon in exchange for money.

Given Pakistan’s deep economic woes, it’s unclear what impact efforts to tackle irregular migration might have on the country.

Pakistanis are grappling with inflation at an almost unimaginable 38%. A rapidly depreciating currency and a current account deficit prompted the government to take drastic measures last year to avoid a sovereign default.

But these measures dealt a severe blow to domestic growth and jobs. The industrial sector, Pakistan’s economic engine, has shrunk by almost 3% in the current fiscal year according to preliminary data. This is an enormous burden for a country of over 230 million people and a generally young population that is pushing 2 million new people into the labor market every year.

Official unemployment figures have not been released for two years. But Hafeez Pasha, a former finance minister and economist known for his work on Pakistan’s labor issues, put the unemployment rate at a record “11-12%, conservative”.

After Egypt and Bangladesh, Pakistan currently has the highest number of nationals registered as arriving asylum seekers in Italy, European border protection agency Frontex told Portal.

This year through May, a record 4,971 Pakistanis attempted to cross the central Mediterranean in a single year, according to Frontex data since 2009.

Opportunities for legal migration are limited and this high number represents those who actually made it to Italy.

Many, like the hundreds of people who have now died on the boat off southern Greece, see no other choice but to try and negotiate deals through agents, who often present illegal routes as a faster, cheaper or even the only way to go to reach Europe, according to the Migrant Resource Centre, an EU-funded organization that provides information and advice to migrants.

Eleven desperate families in Bandli village on Friday clung to the hope that they would yet learn their loved ones were among the lucky ones rescued.

That hope was quickly fading, and pain was already showing on the faces of mothers, fathers and other relatives, who wondered if their loved ones were among the 12 Pakistani nationals Greek officials say were pulled out of the water alive became.

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In 2018, Tombi entered the door of an elementary school in Izmir for the first time. Back then, the ginger cat roamed the streets of the Turkish city in search of food and attention.

The children’s friend

From the first moment the cat was friendly and affectionate towards the students. He walked up to her and asked for hugs, but that wasn’t enough.

After spending several weeks on the playground, Tombi became a student too! He was in a CE2 class and “the kids really liked him,” Özlem Pinar Ivascu, their teacher, confided to The Dodo.

Ozlem Pinar Ivascu

You’d think a cat would distract students in class… However, Tombi had the opposite effect. The children were never so excited when they went to school and showed a higher ability to concentrate.

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“Since Tombi has been here, the children have come to school on time and take care of him. That’s a good thing for them,” says Özlem. At the same time, the teacher took him to the vet to make sure he was okay and had him vaccinated.

Ozlem Pinar Ivascu

The cat also benefits from this experience! He finally has a safe place to sleep and live his days, with bowls full of water and food and lots of friends willing to take care of him.

Everything was going perfectly, and yet a small problem almost put an end to Tombi’s adventures.

A complaint has been filed

After learning the cat was loose in the classroom, a student’s parents filed a complaint with school authorities, claiming Tombi could pose a health risk to children.

Ozlem Pinar Ivascu

The cat had no choice but to leave. A heartbreaker in everyone’s eyes. “We found a home for Tombi and he stayed there for three days but he wasn’t happy. He didn’t eat anymore, says Özlem. So I welcomed him into my house, but he wasn’t very happy there either. »

To find a solution, Özlem decided to share the cat’s mishap on social media. From then on, Tombi’s story spread like wildfire! “It got a lot of attention on all TV news,” Özlem said. I received support from many people, including my manager. »

Went back to school

Eventually, the parents who complained changed their minds and Tombi was able to return to class. “The children were very relieved to find him,” says Özlem happily, and he is happy to be back with the children. »

Ozlem Pinar Ivascu

The ginger cat brightens up the lives of hundreds of students for years before setting off to new horizons. Today Tombi has moved abroad with Özlem, with whom he is writing the new chapter in his life.

Also read: An elderly and sick cat, wandering in the snow, sees the end of the tunnel thanks to caring people

Ozlem Pinar Ivascu

While counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces began on several fronts, in west Someone begins to doubt the implications of this military campaign. Anonymous bloc officials supporting Kyiv and a US soldier told CNN that the counter-offensive is currently “does not meet expectations“.

Russia appears to have built defenses capable of withstanding the effects of the Ukrainian advance. And, again, according to officials interviewed by the US channel, the defensive tactics of Russian troops Missile attacks, minefields and more precise use of air forceswould slow down operations significantly. It is still an early stage for these officials and it is therefore difficult to make definitive judgments. The same sources say so Washington and the allies “stay optimists“, confident that, despite the initial obstacles, the troops of Volodymyr Zelenskyy You will get the desired result.

However, the signal coming from the United States suggests that doubts are beginning to creep in in some parts of the Washington and bloc apparatuses Born. And it’s an issue particularly dear to Kiev, aware that the success of this summer campaign may affect not only eventual victory over the invading army, but also the maintenance of steady Western military and economic support for the Duration of the campaign war. Therefore from the Ukrainian capital, despite the Fog With war affecting all operations, senior officials are beginning to weigh up what is expected of this counteroffensive.

President Zelenskyy said in an interview with the BBC. sure of final victory but he also admitted that progress on the battlefield “appears to be”slower than expected“. Mykhailo’s commentary is harsher Podoliak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, who said via his Twitter profile: “Real war is not a Hollywood blockbuster. “The counterattack is not a new season of a Netflix series” and that “don’t expect action and buy popcorn”. The message appears to be aimed at the very officials who leaked their doubts to CNN. Podolyak then emphasized in a very critical tone that “the time lost in convincing our partners to provide the necessary weapons can be seen in the Russian fortifications, deep defense lines and minefield systems built during this time”.

The same opinion is shared by Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal, who stated that the counteroffensive includes both offensive and defensive operations and that during the period the campaign was being prepared, Russia also took countermeasures to improve defenses in the occupied territories . The impression is that Ukraine are currently playing two different but closely related games. One on the battlefield, where Kiev, despite Russian resistance, still claims to recapture some villages in the east of the country and apparently has its sights on the Zaporizhia region, but also the Kherson region in the direction of Crimea. According to analysts, the attack on the Chongar Bridge, which connects the Black Sea peninsula with the rest of Ukraine, can be read as the prelude to an operation towards the southern front.

Instead, the other battle Zelenskyy fought is in the diplomatic arena, where the government wants to avoid giving in to the bloc supporting its war effort. The NATO summit on July 12-13 in Vilnius could already be a turning point. Kiev could try to produce tangible results in the weeks leading up to the summit, thereby presenting itself to the new NATO-Ukraine Council with the stuff needed to ensure maximum support from a West that has failed in its condemnation of the invasion yields but does not also appears to be exploring the alternatives to full-scale conflict.

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