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This clears the way for Japan to sell weapons to more than a dozen countries. Source link

This is a very similar situation to the one that surrounded Red Bull’s former head of strategy, Will Courtenay, who is now McLaren’s sporting director. It emerged at the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix that Courtenay had signed to join McLaren when his contract ended, and Red Bull emphasised that he would not be allowed to…

WASHINGTON — With a cease-fire in the US-Israeli war on Iran due to expire on April 22, US actions at sea are drawing renewed attention to a central issue: how deeply Iran’s military establishment is embedded in the country’s economy. The disabling on April 19 of the M/V Touska, a container ship reportedly linked to…

Sprint legend Usain Bolt has urged rising Australian star Gout Gout not to forget track and field and find a good support network to keep him focused on his career as the spotlight and distractions intensify. Gout, 18, retained the 200m title at the Australian Athletics Championships on 12 April in a time of 19.67…

West Ham edge a point clearer of the relegation zone as they share a goalless draw with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Source link

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, which represents roughly half of drivers on the Tube network, are striking over a Transport for London’s (TfL) voluntary proposal to allow train operators to move to a compressed four-day week. Source link

Most analysts had predicted the rate would remain unchanged at 5.2%. Source link

Having played tennis at the University of Miami, Elsa Mendoza encouraged her three sons to play sports and work hard academically. She urged her eldest Fernando to keep believing despite repeatedly being overlooked, beginning with his first team at nine years old, when he was initially fourth-choice quarterback. Coming out of high school, he was…

Will the £200m Paris St-Germain-paid Barcelona for Neymar Jr ever be surpassed? Records are there to be broken, but that figure has stood as football’s most expensive sum for almost a decade now and it is hard to see anyone topping it soon. Yet tracking the progression of the world record fee offers an insight…

He is likely to set out to the committee the context in which his initial decision was taken – that Lord Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador had already been publicly announced and his interpretation of the law, the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, 2010, was that he was not authorised to share the conclusions of the…