Still have money set aside for medical expenses that you need to spend by the end of the year?

There are plenty of ways to meet the deadline for flexible spending accounts, and you don’t need to buy big-ticket items. You can use up the balance on everyday purchases such as bandages and items you’ve already bought.

Flexible spending accounts, or FSAs, let workers have pretax money deducted from each paycheck to pay for healthcare costs not covered by insurance or other plans. For 2019, the amount was up to $2,700. Next year, it’s $2,750. Because they’re not taxed, those dollars go further.

“Most people could find 10 things that they buy regularly that could qualify for FSA” by reviewing their receipts from pharmacies and supermarkets, said Jina Etienne, a Silver Spring, Md., certified public accountant. “It’s tedious, but I’ll do a lot for free money.”

The accounts are popular. There are about 15 million of them covering a total of 35 million Americans, said Jeremy Miller, founder of the decade-old FSAstore.com, which guarantees all 4,500 products it sells are FSA-eligible and notes which items require a doctor’s prescription.

Pharmacy chains and some major retailers also indicate FSA-eligible items on their websites, including CVS Health, Walgreens, Costco, Walmart and Amazon. They usually also note which purchases are FSA-eligible on customer receipts, making record keeping easier.

To start, check your spending deadline with your FSA plan administrator or employee benefits office. Some plans have a use-it-or-lose-it policy. But most companies give workers until mid-March of the next year to spend the balance or let them roll over up to $500, said Gary M. DuBoff of accounting firm MBAF in New York.

Then review what you’ve already spent, check your medicine cabinet for things running low, and try squeezing in care you’ve postponed, like lab tests or getting an eye exam and new eyeglasses.

Some often-overlooked items that experts note are FSA-eligible:

— Copays for doctor and emergency room visits, prescription medicines, other out-of-pocket expenses and some health insurance premiums.

— Bandages, hearing aids, first aid kits, antiseptic spray and wound ointments, heating pads, compression socks, blood sugar test kits, pill organizers, blood pressure monitors, crutches, wheelchairs, and wigs for people who’ve lost their hair due to a disease, along with replacement batteries and shipping costs.

— Family planning expenses such as birth control pills, pregnancy tests, prenatal vitamins, in vitro fertilization, vasectomies and abortions.

— Baby and child items such as breast pumps and related supplies, breastfeeding classes, training pants but not regular diapers, allergy ID bracelets and “smart” items such as socks that monitor breathing and wireless thermometer patches.

— Dental treatments, including X-rays, teeth cleaning, fillings, crowns, braces, extractions, dentures and denture cleaning supplies and fluoride treatments to prevent tooth decay.

— Out-of-pocket costs for corrective eye surgery, prescription glasses, readers, wipes and repair kits for glasses and contact lenses and solutions.

—Over-the-counter medicines for colds, allergies and pain and more usually are not FSA-eligible, but they are if your doctor writes a prescription for them.

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— Fitness-recovery products such as braces for wrists, knees and elbows, along with hot and cold packs, portable nerve-stimulating devices to control pain and special elastic tape to support injured areas.

— Steam inhalers and CPAP machines for respiratory care.

— Ambulance rides, lodging near a hospital and trips to your doctor, via car, taxi or public transit. Receipts or written records are needed.

— Inpatient addiction treatment, service animal costs, nursing services and Braille books.

Before buying anything you want to deduct, make sure it’s FSA-eligible. Check with your plan or review Internal Revenue Service publication 502 for allowable medical deductions. Sometimes there are limitations. For example, sunscreen and lip balm are only eligible with an SPF of 15 or higher.

DuBoff noted that plenty of items don’t qualify, including cosmetic surgery, medicines purchased from outside the U.S., pet medicines and medical marijuana.

Johnson writes for the Associated Press.

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least one person and causing a three-story building to collapse, setting off a search for an unspecified number of people who were feared to have been trapped inside, officials said.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the magnitude 6.9 quake struck an area about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) northwest of Padada town in Davao del Sur province at a depth of 30 kilometers (18 miles). The region has been battered by a series of powerful quakes in recent months.

A child died in a village in Davao del Sur’s Matanao town when a wall of her house tumbled down as the ground shook and hit her in the head, officials said.

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Davao del Sur Gov. Douglas Cagas said a three-story building housing a grocery store collapsed in downtown Padada during the quake, trapping an unspecified number of people inside. Search and rescue efforts were underway, he told the DZMM radio network, adding that a still-unknown number of people were injured in his province.

Matanao Mayor Vincent Fernandez said his two-story town hall was badly damaged by the intense shaking, along with two bridges and several buildings already weakened by previous quakes.

“The shaking was different this time, it wasn’t swaying. It’s like a roller was rumbling by underneath,” Fernandez told DZMM from an emergency shelter. As he was being interviewed, he paused briefly, saying the ground was shaking again in the latest of dozens of aftershocks.

Fernandez appealed for food packs and tents to be used by residents who needed immediate shelter from the rainy weather. Many buildings that can be used as evacuation centers have been damaged by recent earthquakes, he said.

President Rodrigo Duterte was safe with his daughter in his house in Davao city, where the earthquake was felt strongly. He returned to sleep after the tremors, said Brig. Gen. Jose Niembra, who heads the presidential security force.

Classes in Davao del Sur province, along with cities and town, including Davao, will be suspended Monday to allow checks on the stability of school buildings. Some cities and town lost their power due to the quake, officials said.

The Davao region has been hit by several earthquakes in recent months, causing some deaths and scores of injuries and badly damaging houses, hotels, malls and hospitals.

The Philippine archipelago lies on the so-called Pacific “Ring of fire,” an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. It’s also lashed by about 20 typhoons and storms each year, making the Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 million people one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

Beirut — 

Libya’s aspiring strongman Khalifa Haftar has besieged Tripoli for months in a bid to enter the capital, unseat the U.N.-recognized government and cement his hold over the country. But the septuagenarian general, who heads a grouping of factions styling themselves as the Libyan National Army, has made little headway, despite his many backers.

Now, there is new urgency in his campaign as tensions rise in a nearby flashpoint: the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

The saber-rattling began last month, when Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding with the Libyan government in Tripoli establishing economic maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean. The agreement, which went into effect last week, involves the same underwater region where Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt also are competing for gas and oil riches.

The deal has brought fresh umbrage upon Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the European Union, Egypt and others, and it also threatens an escalation in Libya’s long-festering civil war, with Turkey set to deploy its troops to insure the survival of the so-called Government of National Accord (and the maritime agreement with it) even as Haftar’s patrons — including Russia, the United Arab Emirates and France — redouble their efforts to destroy it.

The threat to add Turkish boots on the ground in Libya — a chaotic free-for-all of militias fighting alongside mercenaries from Russia, Sudan and Chad as well as military personnel from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and France — has stirred up a flurry of diplomatic maneuverings: On Wednesday, Erdogan phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the possibility of a “speedy cease-fire and resumption of intra-Libyan peace talks,” according to Russian state news; Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi spoke before a forum in the south of Egypt, saying he planned along with partner states to end the crisis in Libya “within months”; Greece and Turkey tussled over the legality of the maritime agreement in the United Nations; and the U.S., already alarmed by reports of Russian troops in the country, discussed Libya in a meeting between Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

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“There is no military solution to this. There is no capacity for any of the forces that are competing there to resolve this in a way that they can create victory on the battlefield that leads to a political resolution that has stability,” said Pompeo after the meeting. “We want to work with the Russians to get to the negotiating table, have a series of conversations that ultimately lead to a disposition that creates what the U.N. has been trying to do for an awfully long time.”

There was little talk of political resolution from Haftar.

“The zero hour is nigh, the hour of the … crushing incursion awaited by every honorable, free Libyan,” said Haftar in a televised address Thursday meant to exhort his troops to wage a “final assault” on Tripoli.

Since then, his Libyan National Army forces have escalated their offensive on Tripoli’s southern outskirts.

At stake is more than just the massive wealth of Libya, a country flush with the world’s tenth largest oil reserves and vast mineral resources, not to mention its status as a major transit hub with almost 1,200 miles of Mediterranean coastline. There are also some 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 122 trillion cubic feet of gas estimated to be in the east Mediterranean , according to a 2010 study by the U.S. Geographical Survey; it’s a prospective bonanza that has already kicked up acrimonious disputes among nations in the region.

U.S. companies are already investing in those areas.

This month, Noble Energy, a Houston-based hydrocarbon exploration company, said it would deliver commercial gas sales to the Israeli domestic market and regional markets from the Leviathan field off Israel’s shores. ExxonMobil has announced one of the world’s largest natural gas discoveries near the Greek portion of Cyprus and said it would work with the Greek Cypriot government to develop it. (Cyprus is a divided country, with Turkey recognizing a Turkish Cypriot state in the northern part of the island.)

Turkey’s agreement with Libya further complicates a growing diplomatic row over the issue of exclusive economic zones, or EEZs. The U.N.’s Convention on the Law of the Sea grants countries 212 miles from their coast where they can claim exclusive fishing, mining and drilling rights. But there isn’t enough distance between the countries on the East Mediterranean, which means they have squabbled over where to place the boundaries separating their EEZs.

The deal also promises to funnel more weapons into Libya, which, more than eight years after a NATO operation dislodged Col. Moammar Kadafi, persists as a maelstrom of violence that birthed its own Islamic State affiliate and has left the country divided between rival governments supported by an array of international actors.

Last Monday, a panel of experts tasked by the U.N. released a report detailing a large portion of that support — weapons transfers to Libya despite an international arms embargo on the country.

The 376-page report, complete with shipping receipts and related correspondence, cites consistent and “sometimes blatant” violations of the embargo by the Emirates, Egypt, France, Jordan and Russia, which deliver military support to Haftar; and Turkey, which has become the Tripoli government’s main supporter. (There were also half-hearted attempts at hiding the violations; one transaction involved an Irish navy patrol vessel bought by the UAE as a “pleasure yacht” before appearing in Haftar’s navy.)

In recent weeks, the generosity of Haftar’s backers has changed the calculus of the battlefield near Tripoli’s southern suburbs, where his forces have been mired in stalemate since April.

Though Haftar has yet to break the deadlock, said Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist at the Clingendael Institute, the fighters aligned with the Tripoli government are outgunned and may soon be forced to abandon their defense of the capital.

“You realize it’s an international alliance with unlimited resources, that it’s here forever, and you’re standing with your AK-47,” Harchaoui said in an interview Wednesday.

Pompeo criticized the violations in his remarks Wednesday, saying that “no nation ought to be providing incremental material inside of Libya.”

“It only creates more risk, more violence and moves us away further from the political resolution that Libya so desperately needs.”

But it’s unclear what, if any, leverage the U.S. has. Aside from a tacit blessing of Haftar’s assault on Tripoli when he started the operation in April, President Trump and his administration have largely taken a hands-off approach. That has changed with the entry of Russian troops, said Frederic Wehrey, a Libya scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, but it may not be enough.

“There’s a cooling of enthusiasm regarding Haftar in the White House, but how far is the U.S. really going to push to stop this war?” Wehrey said in a phone interview Wednesday, adding that Haftar had met with high-level U.S. officials warning him of involvement with the Russians.

Several thousand people, some making heart signs with their hands, turned out in Hong Kong on Sunday in an unusual display of support for the police force, even as riot officers clashed elsewhere with protesters and pepper-sprayed a crowd.

Competing rallies on Hong Kong Island and wildcat protest actions, including vandalism, by black-clad youths at shopping malls dramatically exposed the deep gulf between pro- and anti-establishment camps carved out by six months of demonstrations that have shaken and split the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

Truncheon-wielding riot officers fanned out at a shopping mall where demonstrators spray-painted protest slogans on the polished stone floor and smashed glass panels. Watched by shoppers, officers pepper-sprayed bystanders and made several arrests, pinning detainees to the floor and marching them away.

Roaming groups of youths in black popped up at other shopping malls, too, shouting slogans. At one mall, a small group adapted a Christmas carol into a protest song and a woman played “Glory to Hong Kong,” a protest anthem, on a harmonica.

The scene was completely different at a waterfront park on Hong Kong Island, where a large crowd showered love on the 30,000-strong police force, broadly criticized as heavy-handed by the protest movement. The rally echoed the Hong Kong government’s view that protesters have become unacceptably violent.

Pro-police demonstrators described protesters as rioters and terrorists and police officers as gallant heroes. They directed thumbs-up signs and shouted words of thanks at officers who policed the sidelines of the rally. One woman yelled that they looked handsome in uniform.

“I’m not against the protesters. It’s OK for them to speak, but in a peaceful way,” said Max Cheng, an IT worker who took part.

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When mass anti-government demonstrations first erupted in June against a proposed extradition law, Cheng said she was among the hundreds of thousands who marched.

But she said she later felt repulsed by violence that increasingly accompanied protests. She said she didn’t demonstrate again until Sunday, when she came out to support police, who have shot 26,000 tear-gas and rubber-baton rounds and arrested more than 6,000 people during the six months of snowballing protests.

“It has just gone too far,” she said. “People are too upset, too divided and very emotional.”

But at a separate anti-government rally held simultaneously Sunday just a few hundred meters (yards) away, demonstrators yelled that the protest movement would not let up as long as Hong Kong’s government continues to resist calls for full elections and other demands.

Called by social workers, the protest drew several hundred people, markedly less than the pro-police demonstration that drew several thousand.

Protester Fong Lee, a social worker, said some people are taking a breather after they turned out in record numbers last month to deliver a stinging rebuke to Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, turning an election for district councils into a slap-down of her government.

Lam is in Beijing this weekend to discuss next steps with her bosses in the Communist Party leadership. Demonstrators said they’re not expecting those meetings to yield any concessions and that they regard Lam as an irrelevance.

“Every time when Carrie Lam steps out to say something, she irritates people,” said Lee. “She’s just a puppet.”

It has been almost a year since the government began sending asylum seekers back to Mexico and only 11 people have been granted asylum. That accounts for a grant rate of less than one percent

Bryan thought it would take him about a month to get from Honduras to the United States last year.

He was 19 at the time, living by himself and had already been kidnapped by local gangs once. Men stripped him naked, checked his bodies for tattoos that are seen as a sign of gang affiliation there, and beat him after they found none. When the men were done, they gave Bryan three seconds to run away.

So, in October 2018, when Bryan heard that a migrant caravan was heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, he decided to tag along.

And it did take Bryan a month to get to the border. What he didn’t realize is that was only the beginning of a year-long struggle to request asylum.

That’s because Bryan arrived to the border at a time in which the Trump administration began making drastic changes to U.S. asylum policy.

Over the last year, in the name of national security, those changes have made it increasingly difficult for migrants to win asylum cases in the U.S. The latest change has effectively made the majority of non-Mexican migrants ineligible for asylum, according to lawyers and activists.

One policy in particular, called Migrant Protection Protocols or Remain in Mexico, has made it nearly impossible for migrants to receive asylum.

Data shows that as of September, of the more than 47,000 people in the program, fewer than 10,000 had completed their cases. Of that group, 5,085 cases were denied while 4,471 cases were dismissed without a decision being made — mostly on procedural grounds.

Only 11 cases — or 0.1 percent of all completed cases — resulted in asylum being granted, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

Bryan was not one of those 11 cases. He is currently waiting to be deported back to Honduras. He’s still afraid of the gangs and asked the San Diego Union-Tribune not to print his last name because he’s afraid they’ll identify him.

That 0.1 percent grant rate is significantly lower than the 20 percent of people who were granted asylum outside of the Remain in Mexico process, according to data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

That same data shows a 48 percent denial rate and a 30 percent “other” rate in 2018. The “other” category means that asylum cases either ended without a decision being made, or were withdrawn for some reason.

Before been enrolled in the Remain in Mexico program, Bryan went up against one of the first major changes the Trump administration made to asylum policy: expanding the metering program.

Metering forces migrants at the border to wait months in Mexico before getting a chance to turn themselves in to Customs and Border Protection agents.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security defend the practice by saying that there is a limited amount of space in holding facilities where they process migrants who enter the country without proper documentation. To prevent overcrowding, they need to manage the amount of people who enter each day.

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There are more than 10,000 migrants currently in Tijuana waiting to enter the United States and legally asking for asylum. Many have been there for months and on some days, none of them are allowed to enter the country. Instead of waiting, several people either cross illegally into the U.S. or turn around and go back home.

Advocates who have sued the federal government over the metering program argue that it violates international laws by preventing migrants from their right to request asylum — particularly Mexican asylum seekers who are forced to wait in the same country they are fleeing from.

In Bryan’s case, metering meant that even though he arrived to the border in November 2018, he didn’t get a chance to actually enter the country until January.

The three-month wait made Bryan subject to the Trump administration’s second drastic change to U.S. asylum policy: Remain in Mexico.

Officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols, the policy requires asylum seekers with immigration court cases in the U.S. to wait in Mexico until their cases are adjudicated.

The program was announced by the Department of Homeland Security in January as a response to changing demographics at the border. The migrant caravan brought a lot of women and children, which presented a problem to Customs and Border Protection because they were used to interacting with adult men.

“The situation has had severe impacts on U.S. border security and immigration operations,” the announcement read. “The dramatic increase in illegal migration, including unprecedented number of families and fraudulent asylum claims is making it harder for the U.S. to devote appropriate resources to individuals who are legitimately fleeing persecution.”

The logic behind Remain in Mexico is that forcing people to spend months in Mexico waiting for their cases will deter them from filing false asylum claims. That, in theory, should free up the courts to process legitimate claims.

But advocates on the ground have long argued that the program, along with the administration’s other changes to asylum policy, also deters migrants from submitting legitimate claims.

“There’s metering, there’s Remain in Mexico, there’s the new asylum ban. Basically, the process is blocking people from getting asylum,” said Kennji Kizuka, senior researcher and policy analyst for Human Rights First.

The “asylum ban” Kizuka refers to is the third asylum policy change. This one, enacted in July, makes non-Mexican asylum seekers at the southern border ineligible for asylum unless they’ve already requested for asylum in another country.

Kizuka has spent most of this year researching the living conditions of migrants returned to Mexico. He has helped author for reports; each one documenting an increasing number of migrants being robbed, beaten, kidnapped, and raped south of the border.

The latest report, published Thursday, identified 636 reported cases of kidnapping, torture and other violent attacks on asylum seekers who are part of the Remain in Mexico program. That figure includes 138 cases of kidnapping or attempted kidnapping of children.

Kizuka says legitimate asylum seekers who fled their home are choosing to go back because they are afraid they’ll die in Mexico.

“There are people who just cannot take it anymore,” he said. “They would rather die at home than die in a foreign country where their families won’t be able to come for their remains and give them a proper burial.”

Despite these hardships, Bryan made the best of his time in Tijuana.

He made money working construction jobs and also found work in restaurants as a dishwasher and waiter. He rented a two-bedroom house with nine other men and volunteered at migrant shelters.

He became heavily involved in a group of Central American activists from the caravan, joined a band that wrote pro-immigrants songs, and became an Evangelical Christian.

“His experience with the migrant caravan was life changing for him,” said his lawyer Siobhan Waldron.

During the summer, after seeing migrant families struggle to find housing in Tijuana, he helped build a migrant-run shelter.

Bryan says building that shelter was one of the best things he’s ever done. It showed him that even when everything seems like it’s stacked against him, he can still push forward.

“In Tijuana, we were told we are nothing, that we don’t have any opportunities,” he said. “But we showed people that we can do things, even if they are small.”

While Bryan lived his life in Tijuana, his court case in the United States slogged through the courts. It took ten months from the time Bryan turned himself in at the border until a judge denied his asylum claim.

In Bryan’s case, his fate partly came down to a brief exchange between him and an immigration judge about abused he’d already suffered in Honduras.

A judge asked him to retell the worst thing that had happened to him in Honduras. Bryan was nervous. He knew that his potential future in the United States was on the line.

Bryan told the judge about the time gang members told him to transport drugs and guns when he was 16. He refused and they threatened him.

“Besides this time when you were 16 and they wanted you to deliver drugs and weapons, did you have any other major problems with the gangs,” the judge asked.

“No,” Bryan said.

It wasn’t until the judge asked Bryan if anyone had ever harmed him in Honduras that Bryan told the judge about being kidnapped and beaten.

Bryan had suffered a traumatic event, he was nervous and told the story out of order, but the facts of the story never changed, never contradicted themselves, Waldron said.

The judge didn’t see it that way.

In his decision, the judge describes Bryan’s answer as an, “internal inconsistency,” that is, “significant enough to be the basis for the Court’s adverse credibility finding.”

Bryan and Waldron decided to file an appeal – a legal right afforded to all asylum applicants. Waldron thought judge’s decision was unfair and felt they had a strong chance to get another decision.

However, appeals last six to eight months, sometimes longer. After being denied asylum, Bryan was sent to Otay Mesa Detention Center. He had never spent time in jail and struggled to live in the detention center.

“When you have to wait so long to go to court, spend time in detention, be sent back to Mexico, it’s demoralizing,” he said. “The whole thing is designed to make people grow desperate and give up.”

So, after thinking it over and talking with his lawyer, withdrew his appeal even though he still fears for his life in Honduras. He’s done fighting.

He had endured more than a year of obstacles to get to this point, but the prospect of prolonged detention was the last straw, Waldron said.

“Every single one of these policies is to make asylum so difficult,” she said. “There are so many hoops to jump through, logistical barriers, family separation, Remain in Mexico, every single policy you can think of to send a message that if you want to try for asylum it’s going to be really really hard.”

Last month, Bryan celebrated his 21 birthday at Otay Mesa Detention Center. He’s currently waiting to be deported and is unsure what he will do once he gets back to Honduras.

The Frenchman is a keen admirer of the young forward, but the Blancos manager says it would not be fair to discuss his future at the moment

Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has vowed to respect Paris Saint-Germain’s relationship with Kylian Mbappe amid rumours of disharmony at Parc des Princes.

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Mbappe, 20, was publicly told by Thomas Tuchel to respect coaching decisions after seemingly ignoring the PSG boss when substituted late in last weekend’s Ligue 1 win at Montpellier.

Sources from France then claimed the World Cup winner has at times questioned his importance and treatment in comparison to team-mate Neymar.

The reports have fuelled speculation Mbappe could seek a move to Real Madrid in future but Zidane, who recently admitted to being “in love” with the talented France forward, tried to avoid driving a wedge between player and coach.

“Mbappe plays for PSG. I can’t comment on what goes on there behind the scenes,” the Madrid boss said on Saturday ahead of his side’s La Liga game against Valencia.

“That would be a lack of respect on my part. You know that I know him very well, but I have to have respect.”

Madrid’s trip to Mestalla on Sunday marks their final match before El Clasico on Wednesday, a potentially pivotal encounter in the title race.

Zidane insisted his team was focused only on beating Valencia and would not be distracted by the upcoming match at Camp Nou.

“We don’t even talk about it,” he said. “We are not interested in what will happen on Wednesday. We are only interested in tomorrow’s game.

“Valencia are playing very well, getting very good results, they’re through to the next stage of the Champions League.

“What we want is to give the best version of ourselves and to try to continue growing as a team. That is what interests us.”

Zidane offered no clues over his starting XI but promised Gareth Bale had not fallen out of favour after the winger went unused against Club Brugge in the Champions League.

“I don’t think Gareth’s role is less important now,” he said.

“He is one of us and I will count on him, but I have 25 players and they are all important to me. I follow the squad’s progress day by day and everyone puts in. Bale is as important as the others.”

Invitée sur le plateau de Ça ne sortira pas d’ici, la nouvelle émission de Michel Cymes sur France 2, Michèle Laroque est revenue sur la disparition de son amie Valérie Benguigui. La comédienne est décédée en septembre 2013, des suites d’un cancer du sein.

Michèle Laroque a eu droit, à son tour, à une consultation médicale dans le cabinet du docteur Cymes. Alors qu’elle est actuellement sur la scène du théâtre Edouard VII pour la pièce Encore un instant, dans laquelle elle joue aux côtés de François Berléand, l’actrice était invitée de l’émission Ça ne sortira pas d’ici, ce mercredi 27 mars sur France 2.

Durant l’interview de son invitée, Michel Cymes a rappelé combien l’autopalpation était importante – et nécessaire – pour les femmes. Et l’actrice de réagir : « Oui, mais je crois que la peur nous empêche de faire beaucoup de choses », constate-t-elle.

Michèle Laroque a profité de son passage en plateau pour évoquer la disparition deson amie Valérie Benguigui, décédée le 2 septembre 2013, des suites d’un cancer du sein. « Valérie, elle incarnait la vie. J’ai eu un grand choc. C’était une personne qui avait vraiment vraiment beaucoup de cœur et qui avait beaucoup de talent. Elle était exceptionnelle », a-t-elle confié, non sans une certaine émotion.

Ce décès a été une sorte de déclic pour la compagne de François Baroin : « À la suite du décès de Valérie, que je n’arrive toujours pas à intégrer tellement elle représentait la vie pour moi, effectivement, j’ai été la marraine d’Octobre rose… J’ai envie de dire « soyons solidaires entre femmes, passons nous des bons messages, aidons nous ». Et si c’est difficile d’aller toute seule faire des examens, appelons une copine et allons-y à deux, parce que c’est important de faire attention à ça, vraiment », a expliqué l’actrice, très touchée par la disparition de cette amie qui lui était chère.

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Le prince Charles serait inquiet que son jeune frère Andrew dilapide l’héritage de la reine Elizabeth avec l’argent du contribuable.

Ce n’est pas parce qu’on est membre de la royauté que notre famille s’entend forcément à merveille ! La rivalité entre le prince Charles et son frère Andrew, plus jeune que lui de 11 ans, a toujours été connue du public. Mais un nouveau documentaire diffusé sur la chaîne britannique Channel 5 a récemment révélé que le fils aîné de la reine Elizabeth II essayerait de mettre Andrew, duc d’York, sur la touche. En effet, le prince Charles serait inquiet que son frère “dilapide l’héritage” de la famille royale.

Intitulé The Royal Family at War (La Famille royale en guerre), le documentaire a révélé, selon le Daily Mail, que le prince de Galles voudrait une monarchie “réduite” lorsqu’il monterait sur le trône. Il souhaiterait ainsi que seuls les membres de sa famille immédiate puissent se servir de l’argent du contribuable. Ce qui exclurait Andrew d’York et ses deux filles, Eugénie et Beatrice. Victoria Arbiter, une éditorialiste de CNN spécialisée dans la royauté, explique notamment dans le documentaire que les Britanniques seraient de plus en plus irrités que certains membres de la famille royale utilisent leurs impôts alors qu’ils ne font finalement pas grand-chose.

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Le prince Andrew a déjà fait scandale outre-Manche en raison de sa manière d’utiliser l’argent public. Il avait été pointé du doigt lorsqu’il avait utilisé des avions ou des hélicoptères royaux pour effectuer des trajets qui auraient pu se faire en voiture, notamment lors de ses voyages en Écosse pour aller jouer au golf. Sa proximité avec le milliardaire américain Jeffrey Epstein, envoyé en prison en 2008 à cause de son implication dans des affaires de prostitution, avait également été remarquée. Dans le récent documentaire, la biographe royale Penny Junor explique ainsi que “Charles est inquiet que le comportement d’Andrew fasse du mal à la famille” et dégrade son image auprès du public britannique. Le documentaire précise que la proximité entre la reine Elizabeth II et son second fils, perçu outre-Manche comme son favori, aurait été un élément déclencheur des tensions entre Charles et Andrew.

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Meghan Markle et le prince Harry s’apprêtent à devenir parents pour la première fois. Dans quelques semaines, la duchesse de Sussex donnera naissance à leur bébé. Mais l’annonce de l’accouchement est soumise à des règles strictes.

Moins d’un an après leur somptueux mariage, Meghan Markle et le prince Harry s’apprêtent à devenir parents. C’est le 15 octobre dernier, juste avant leur premier voyage officiel en dehors du Royaume-Uni, que la nouvelle est tombée. Kensington Palace annonçait la grossesse de Meghan Markle et donc l’arrivée d’un petit bout de chou pour le printemps 2019. Après Arthur – le fils de Pippa Middleton –, les adorables George, Charlotte et Louis vont bientôt accueillir un nouveau petit cousin ou cousine.Bambin qui aura tout juste un an d’écart avec le prince Louis.

Mais chaque naissance royale doit se soumettre à des règles strictes. Et même si le prince Harry ne règnera sans doute jamais, il doit également se plier au protocole. L’arrivée de leur tant attendu bout de chou se prépare. Les deux tourtereaux ont d’ores et déjà reçu des premiers cadeaux de naissance ainsi que la poussette de bébé. Et surtout, Meghan Markle a choisi l’hôpital dans lequel elle accouchera. En revanche, le duc et la duchesse de Sussex n’auront pas le choix sur la manière dont ils annonceront la naissance de leur enfant à leur entourage.

Un ordre bien précis

Hormis l’équipe médicale et le prince Harry qui sera dans la salle d’accouchement, sans surprise, c’est la reine qui doit être la première informée de la venue au monde du bébé royal. Selon plusieurs médias britanniques, Elizabeth II serait contactée via un téléphone crypté, afin que la bonne nouvelle ne fuite pas. L’acte de naissance serait également glissé dans une enveloppe, puis acheminée vers Buckingham sous escorte. Les grands-parents seront ensuite mis au courant. Le prince Charles, Camilla Parker-Bowles ainsi que Doria Ragland, qui devrait même s’installer quelques temps au Royaume-Uni – et peut-être même Thomas Markle – pourront se réjouir de l’arrivée du nouveau-né. Tout comme Kate Middleton et le prince William, qui, en revanche, pourraient bien manquer cet événement.

Après la famille, ce seront les sujets de la reine qui auront la primeur de cette nouvelle. S’en suivra ensuite le reste du monde. Les Anglais seront avertis par une proclamation signée des médecins royaux et placée sur un chevalet dans la cour du palais de Buckingham, tandis que le palais postera l’information sur les réseaux sociaux. Dans le même temps, pas moins de 62 coups de canon seront tirés de la Tour de Londres et résonneront pendant environ dix minutes. Une arrivée au monde pour le moins royale !

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