The closures, representing about 1% of the company’s roughly 18,000 North American stores, will cost about $300 million in restructuring charges and are expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2026.

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Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested and are suspected of being low-level agents allegedly recruited by a GRU-linked team operating from Slovakia.

Source: FAZ

The sanctions have not yet been decided, with possible punishments ranging from fines and points deductions to expulsion from the Premier League. City are expected to appeal and continue to deny the allegations.

The charges, brought in February 2023, relate to alleged financial breaches between 2009 and 2018, including claims that the club failed to provide accurate financial information and breached UEFA and Premier League regulations.

Under Sheikh Mansour’s ownership, City have won multiple domestic trophies and the Champions League, while the club has consistently denied the Premier League’s allegations.

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Our ambition is for Iraq to be a global hub for energy production and to leverage its potential to promote regional and international security and stability in a sustainable manner.

We are working to diversify our oil export ports and develop energy corridors linking Iraq, Türkiye, Jordan, and Syria in order to reach global markets, with the aim of contributing to energy security and diversified supply routes.

Here at the United Nations headquarters, there is a replica of the study of the Babylonian king Hamurabi.

It has an inscription which reads, "Laws are made to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak."

In today's world, we find the weak being oppressed because it is the law of the powerful that governs, not the power of the law.

There will be no room for security in the Middle East without a just solution for this issue and without establishing the right of the Palestinian people to their land, to self-determination, and to establishing their sovereign state.

Iraq is the heart of history beating in the modern world.

Iraq is a nation worthy of partnership as we move toward the future.

Trump and I are like two people that's charting the course for the great ship of China-U.S. relations.

When Trump visited China in May, we agreed on the vision of building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.

This time, we've agreed to add new substance to it, that the relationship will be a constructive one of strategic stability on the basis of respect, fairness, and reciprocity.

One can see that the prospects for this relationship will get more brighter.

America is very happy about this visit, and I'm sure China is very happy also.

Great things for both countries. It's been just very, very productive.

Lebanon’s future will not be decided on its behalf, nor may its security and stability become the price of settlements concluded in its absence.

We want Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territory up to our internationally recognized borders, in accordance with the 1949 General Armistice Agreement.

We want the release of our detainees, the safe return of our people to their villages and towns, and the reconstruction of what the war destroyed.

It was in that spirit that Lebanon entered negotiations with Israel to reach arrangements that would end the war and restore Lebanon’s full sovereignty.

This requires Israel’s withdrawal and the extension of the Lebanese state’s authority over all its territory, with weapons held by the state alone.

Syrian officials said 77 tanker trucks have already headed toward the Iraqi border.

The route was previously used to move Iraqi fuel oil through Syria for export, but this marks the first gasoline shipments moving in the opposite direction.

Future agreements could expand the corridor to other petroleum products and goods.

Source: Reuters