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As the summer’s first transfer window slams shut, Premier League clubs have spent more than £447m on new signings – and there is still so much business to be done.Tijjani Reijnders’ imminent arrival at Manchester City will take spending to nearly half a billion. Few knew what to expect from this special window brought in ahead of the Club World Cup – but it has delivered 10 days of transfer drama and set the tone for what promises to be a fascinating summer. And we are just six days away from it re-opening. Please use Chrome browser for a more…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to take a seat at Wednesday’s opening night of the award-winning musical “Les Misérables” at the Kennedy Center, where he replaced the previous leadership with loyalists, had himself installed as chairman and pledged to rid the performing arts venue of programming he has complained is “woke” and too focused on leftist ideology and political correctness.The Republican president’s attendance at the sold-out showing of the Tony Award-winning tale of redemption in 19th century France comes as he has focused more than any recent predecessor on the arts center along the Potomac River that…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signalling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most controversial foreign policy decisions.The Vatican expressed satisfaction that Leo’s June 5 nomination of Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan as auxiliary bishop of Fuzhou was recognized Wednesday by Chinese authorities. The Vatican said in a statement that Lin taking possession of the diocese and the civic recognition of his appointment “constitutes a further fruit of the dialogue between the Holy See and the Chinese authorities and is a significant step in…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey will export 48 of its nationally-produced KAAN fighter jets to Indonesia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday, marking the first export deal for the advanced aircraft that is still in the development stage.Erdogan said in an X post that the 48 KAAN fighter jets would be manufactured in Turkey and exported to Indonesia, adding that Indonesia’s “local capabilities” would be integrated into the production process.The Turkish leader didn’t elaborate or disclose the financial details of the agreement.The deal came on the sidelines of the defense industry exposition, Indo Defence 2025, in Jakarta, Turkey’s…
As Asian governments go through the motions of negotiating with the US, Donald Trump’s trade war is inflicting serious and ever-increasing damage on the region’s largest economies. It remains to be seen what the US and China will ultimately agreed on in London this week. Vague talk of a preliminary strategy to ease trade tensions, with zero specifics or timelines, has so far left global markets with more questions than answers. The final readout said the two sides agreed in principle on a framework for de-escalating trade tensions, which will next be presented to Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour government sought to regain the political initiative Wednesday as Treasury chief Rachel Reeves set out her spending plans for the coming years that included big funding boosts for health, defense and housing.Reeves, who has been blamed by many for Labour’s decline in popularity since it returned to power after 14 years in July, outlined the government’s spending and investment priorities, which she hopes will signal to voters that the “change” promised at the election is being delivered. “We are renewing Britain,” she told lawmakers. “But I know that too many people in too many parts…
London CNN — Elon Musk said Wednesday that he regrets some of his recent social media posts about President Donald Trump. “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Musk said in a post on X. Musk’s relationship with Trump deteriorated in a spectacular, public fashion last week as the two men traded jibes on their respective social media platforms. Until recently, Musk was Trump’s close ally in government and co-head of his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, where the tech billionaire spearheaded mass layoffs of federal workers. But their relationship soured when…
CNN — At long last, the United States has reached a trade agreement with China. Again. After a testy war of words that escalated into a tit-for-tat restriction on key exports, American and Chinese officials this week met in the United Kingdom with a singular goal: Find a way to agree to what they had agreed to a month earlier in Geneva. It appears the countries’ top trade negotiators have accomplished that. On Tuesday night, both Chinese and Trump officials said they had agreed to a framework to implement the consensus they reached in May, and the trade truce would…
CNN — A rare, first-generation Labubu figure has sold for $150,000 in Beijing at an auction held exclusively for the toys that have taken the world by storm. The 131-centimeter (51-inch) mint green figurine with a gremlin-like appearance, sharp teeth and puckish grin went for 1.08 million yuan ($150,325) at the Yongle International Auction house that normally specializes in selling jewelry and modern art. “Congratulations to the online buyer on collecting the world’s only such one,” said the auctioneer at an exhibition center in downtown Beijing on Tuesday afternoon. Labubus are currently the trendiest plush toys on the planet, created…
Abuja, Nigeria CNN — Cuts to US-funded malaria programs are adding to a host of issues confronting Congolese mother Mwayuma Idi Feza, whose city, Goma, is at the center of the country’s intensifying conflict and run by a vicious militia. “I have a child who is sick. He has had malaria for a week and a few days now,” Feza, 36, told CNN of her 1-year-old son, whose fever she suspects is caused by the mosquito-borne illness. She is also experiencing symptoms of the disease, she said. “I’m feeling cold. I feel bitterness in my mouth.” The single mother is…