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Bayern Munich secured yet another Bundesliga title after beating Stuttgart 4-2 at home on Sunday. Top scorer Harry Kane scored his 32nd goal of the season after coming on as a second-half substitute as the Bavarians won their 35th German league title — 34 of them coming in the Bundesliga era. “To finish the league off in ​the way we have with the goals we scored… credit to the lads… we still have a lot to ​play for… but all the hard work, this makes it all worth it,” said Kane. Bayern Munich cruise to title  The win moved the Bavarian giants…

South Korean police said on Tuesday they have sought an arrest warrant for Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, over an investor fraud scheme. Bang is suspected of violating capital market laws by misleading early investors of the HYBE agency in 2019, police said. He allegedly told them the company had no plans to go public, prompting them to sell shares to a private equity fund linked to his associates. Investigators say Bang later received about 30% of the fund’s post-IPO profits under a prior agreement, earning roughly 190 billion won ($129 million, €109.5 million). Bang…

Weeks after Apple’s 50th anniversary, the US technology titan announced on Monday that its CEO Tim Cook would step down in September, to be succeeded by hardware engineer John Ternus. Ternus will step into some of the biggest shoes in corporate America. Cook is credited with turning Apple from a $350 billion (€298 billion) company when he started to a valuation of over $4 trillion today. Ternus takes over a tech giant that must keep its premium edge — the iPhone recently retook the crown as the world’s most popular smartphone by sales — while pushing harder into artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, Apple faces…

Bayern Munich sealing a 13th out of the last 14 men’s Bundesliga titles was one of the least surprising storylines to come out of German football this weekend. Another was the misogynistic reaction online to Marie-Louise Eta becoming the first woman to coach a match in the top five European men’s leagues. Eta’s Union Berlin side fell to an unfortunate 2-1 defeat to fellow strugglers Wolfsburg but the social media discourse was marred by the usual comments, with Union’s social media admins taking several users to task. The German football association (DFB), in the form of vice-president Celia Sasic, said this…

The Venice Art Biennale, which takes place every two years, has historically maintained that art transcends politics. But since the event is also referred to as the “Olympics of the art world” — with national pavilions acting as official, state-sponsored platforms showcasing contemporary art — global politics inevitably get entangled in the conversation. A posthumous exhibition by Koyo Kouoh This year’s event, held from May 9 to November 22, lists 100 national participations, with seven countries taking part for the first time: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Nauru, Qatar, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Vietnam. The national entries accompany the Biennale’s main international art exhibition, titled…

Four years ago, the United States tightened the screws on China’s technological ambitions, rolling out export curbs on advanced chips, commonly known as semiconductors, used in artificial intelligence (AI), data centers and national defense. The Biden administration aimed to limit Beijing’s ability to develop technologies that could boost its military and financial strength, further narrowing the gap between the world’s two largest economies. The restrictions pushed Beijing to accelerate its push for chip self‑reliance, a goal laid out years earlier in its Made in China 2025 plan. The Chinese government has since poured hundreds of billions of dollars into building up domestic semiconductor production. Chips as a national security issue Beijing…

Bayern Munich secured yet another Bundesliga title after beating Stuttgart 4-2 at home on Sunday. Top scorer Harry Kane scored his 32nd goal of the season after coming on as a second-half substitute as the Bavarians won their 35th German league trophy. “To finish the league off in ​the way we have with the goals we scored… credit to the lads… we still have a lot to ​play for… but all the hard work, this makes it all worth it,” said Kane. Bayern Munich cruise to title  The win moved the Bavarian giants an unassailable 15 points clear of second-placed Borussia Dortmund…

Conservative billionaire Vincent Bollore, the owner of the Hachette group, pledged on Sunday to find new authors to replace the some 170 who have left the prestigious subsidiary Grasset in protest at alleged political interference. The protest was ‌triggered ​by the departure of Grasset’s chief executive, Olivier Nora, which the authors blame on Bollore, who is known for his highly conservative views and has shifted his outlets ever further to the right.Bollore’s family made its money by means of ports and trading in AfricaImage: Julien De Rosa/AFP What did Bollore say? In a commentary published by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, which he also owns, Bollore expressed…

How will Trump’s blockade of Iranian oil work? After US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan collapsed at the weekend, US President Donald Trump said the US Navy would block ships entering or leaving any Iranian port or coastal facility via the Strait of Hormuz. Until the war began in late February, a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil trade passed Hormuz, the narrow stretch of water between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. If successful, the blockade would sever Iran’s main source of revenue by halting its nearly 2 million barrel-per-day oil export trade, which Trump is betting will force Tehran back to…

Until just a few years ago, the quiet community of Peyia on the western coast of Cyprus was known mainly for its banana plantations. Over the past decade, however, the area has undergone a rapid transformation, driven largely by developments involving foreign investors, many of whom are Russian. The most emblematic project of the development of this coastal community is the Cap St Georges complex, a luxury resort that includes a hotel and hundreds of beachfront villas. Between March 28 and April 16, this high-end resort hosted some of the world’s greatest chess players, who gathered there to compete in…