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Manchester City become ‘world’s most valuable football club’ after securing $500mn US investment

Manchester City become ‘world’s most valuable football club’ after securing 0mn US investment Premier League champions Manchester City have become the world’s most valuable football club after landing a mammoth $500 million investment from American private equity firm Silver Lake. Though primarily known for their heavy investment in the realms of technology, Silver Lake will now own a 10 percent minority share in one of the world’s premier football clubs, leaving CFG’s valuation at a staggering $4.8 billion. As a result of the deal, Abu Dhabi-based CFG now lie within touching distance of the $5.5 billion valuation given to the NFL giants, the Dallas Cowboys – the world’s most valuable sports team. Those faithful to the Citizens will likely be deligh...

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Help – YES, intervention – NO! Lopez Obrador reacts to Trump’s plan to designate Mexican drug cartels ‘terrorist organizations’

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Help – YES, intervention – NO! Lopez Obrador reacts to Trump’s plan to designate Mexican drug cartels ‘terrorist organizations’ Mexican president has rejected any “intervention” from the US after Donald Trump promised he would designate the country’s drug cartels as terrorist organizations. "Cooperation, yes, intervention, no" Manuel Lopez Obrador responded to US President’s earlier comments that he had been working on branding the cartels as terrorist organizations over the last 90 days. Trump revealed his plans when Bill O’Reilly, a conservative media personality, asked him if he was “going to designate those cartels in Mexico as terror groups and start hitting them with drones" in an interview posted on his personal website on Tuesday. ...

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Russia will be top-level Euro 2020 hosts, UEFA chief Ceferin tells Putin

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Russia will be top-level Euro 2020 hosts, UEFA chief Ceferin tells Putin UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin has told President Vladimir Putin he has no doubt Russia will be ideal hosts for matches at the 2020 European Championships. At a meeting in St. Petersburg, Ceferin referred to Russia’s successful experience of holding the 2018 FIFA World Cup, telling Putin he was sure of the country’s ability to host a similarly high-level matches at next year’s European footballing showpiece, TASS reports. Putin and Ceferin meet in St. Petersburg. © Sputnik St. Petersburg is preparing to host four ...

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Iran says it arrested 8 people linked to CIA during unrest – state media

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Iran says it arrested 8 people linked to CIA during unrest – state media At least eight individuals with ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were arrested in Iran during protests over a fuel price hike, the country’s official state news agency IRNA reported. Those detained “had received CIA-funded training in various countries under the cover of becoming citizen-journalists,” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said, as cited by the outlet. Six were reportedly arrested attending street riots while “carrying out CIA orders,” while two others were apprehended as they were trying to “send information abroad.” Also on rt.com Western media excited about ‘new Iran revolution’, but polls tell a different story abou...

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Merkel says NATO is ‘more important’ now than during Cold War… so forget that ex arch-rival (Warsaw Pact) is long gone

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Merkel says NATO is ‘more important’ now than during Cold War... so forget that ex arch-rival (Warsaw Pact) is long gone German Chancellor Angela Merkel said NATO is now equally or more important than it was during the Cold War, a praise being sang to a military bloc long without its arch-rival and with a history of interventions. East Germany native Angela Merkel provided her very complimentary take as NATO braces to mark their 70th anniversary at a special summit in London. Keeping the military bloc in place today “is even more in our very own interests as it was in the Cold War – or at least as important as it was in the Cold War,” the Chancellor told German MPs. “Because, and the Foreign Minister [Heiko Maas] said yesterday, Europe currently can...

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Roger Waters: Detention of lawyer taking on big oil ‘a dark day for American jurisprudence’

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Roger Waters: Detention of lawyer taking on big oil ‘a dark day for American jurisprudence’ Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has blasted a New York court for extending human rights lawyer Steven Donziger’s house arrest. Donziger had won a landmark lawsuit against oil firm Chevron, but is accused of fraud and bribery. Waters has long supported lawyer Steven Donziger in his efforts to prosecute oil giant Chevron for alleged pollution of indigenous land in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. Chevron was slapped with a $9.5 billion penalty by an Ecuadorian judge in 2011, but has since accused Donziger of using bribery, fraud and extortion to sway the Ecuadorian judgment. The long arm of @Chevron!@SDonziger pic.twitter.com/9PeCbo1o59— Roger Water...

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Beijing says developed countries doing too little to curb global warming

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Beijing says developed countries doing too little to curb global warming China on Wednesday accused developed countries including the US of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing issues including climate compensation. The world’s second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, China has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations, AFP said. “Developed countries’ insufficient political will to provide support” is the biggest problem currently facing international climate efforts, said Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment. An Environment Ministry report also criticized the US – currently in the process of pulling out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on global w...

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‘10 supermodels were waiting for us’: Ex-Arsenal defender claims Lokomotiv Moscow set up HONEY TRAP before Champions League clash

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‘10 supermodels were waiting for us’: Ex-Arsenal defender claims Lokomotiv Moscow set up HONEY TRAP before Champions League clash It is a tactic usually reserved for secret services around the world, but ex-Arsenal defender Pascal Cygan claims Lokomotiv Moscow attempted to deploy a honey trap to ensnare Gunners players ahead of a UEFA Champions League game. Cygan claims the Russian team arranged for a bevy of beauties to meet the Arsenal players at their hotel in the build-up to a Champions League group stage clash in September of 2003. Recalling the scene to a French news outlet, Pascal said: "When we entered our hotel in Moscow there were 10 Russian top models waiting for us. "They were seated in front of the bar. We were later told that they had ...

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At least 13 killed in new massacre near east DR Congo’s Beni – officials

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At least 13 killed in new massacre near east DR Congo’s Beni – officials At least 13 people were killed in a new massacre near the eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo, blamed on a notorious militia, AFP reported, citing a local official and a UN source. “We have the figure of 13 killed at dawn,” a spokesman for the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, told AFP, while local administrator Donat Kibwana said that 14 people were killed. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) evacuated dozens of their staff working on the Ebola epidemic from Beni due to the worsening security situation. Rebels believed to belong to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed eight people in an overnight raid on Sunday, Reuters said. Res...

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Gargantuan ‘dust towers’ may have STRIPPED Mars of all its water, says NASA

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Gargantuan ‘dust towers’ may have STRIPPED Mars of all its water, says NASA Roughly once a decade, Mars experiences an extremely violent, planet-wide storm that covers the entire surface with continent-sized dust towers. NASA now thinks this phenomenon may be what stripped the planet of its water. According to two new papers, a fleet of NASA spacecraft monitored the Red Planet throughout 2018 including NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which peered through the dusty haze formed by these violent tempests (including the storm which ended the Opportunity Rover's mission), using its heat-sensing Mars Climate Sounder instrument. Using the MRO’s readings, combined with images from the Mars Context Imager (MARCI) on board an orbiter above the planet...

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