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What is the hearing all about? The Premier League, the top football division in England and the richest football league in the world, has charged its reigning champions, Manchester City, with 115 breaches of its financial regulations. The charges were initially bought in February 2023 and cover the years between 2009 and 2018.  Starting on September 16, 2024, a three-person commission will review mountains of evidence for about 10 weeks at an undisclosed location. A verdict is expected sometime before the end of the current season. The English champions, owned in practice by the United Arab Emirates’ ruling family, deny all charges and…

Voting began on Wednesday in Indian-administered Kashmir in its first local elections in a decade and also for the first time since the disputed region was stripped of its semi-autonomous status five years ago. Polling is staggered geographically in the three-phased ballot to elect the local government because of security arrangements and logistical issues in the restive Himalayan region. Additional troops deployed Amid a heavy police and paramilitary presence, over 2.3 million residents are eligible to cast their votes in the first phase on Wednesday, which will see 24 Assembly constituencies contested in the region’s seven southern districts. Kashmir remains one…

Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday was headed to jail in the US to await trial, after a judge ordered him to be held without bail in a case that sees the rapper accused of racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky ordered Combs to remain jailed after the music mogul pleaded not guilty to charges that were unsealed. Combs was arrested by federal agents in New York on Monday. He was charged in a three-count indictment with engaging in a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse of women. What is the rapper accused of? According to prosecution, the rapper and producer used…

The suspect in an apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump over the weekend has been charged with two federal gun crimes.Plenty of information has come to light about suspect Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, who was arrested following the incident on Sunday at Mr Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was playing at the time. But the FBI says an investigation is “still at the early stages”, and there are still a lot of unknowns following the incident.Here are five key unanswered questions after the alleged shooting attempt.Did Routh know Trump would be playing golf?…

When China’s youth unemployment rate reached a record high of 21.3% last year, Beijing did what authoritarian governments do whenever ugly truths emerge — it stopped publishing the data. After fiddling with its methodology for six months, China’s National Bureau of Statistics excluded students from the data and Bingo! — by December, youth joblessness had dropped by nearly a third. Massaging the data, as many China watchers suspect happened, doesn’t make the problem go away. In July, after several months of small declines, the youth jobless figure rose sharply again — by a third to 17.1%. Singapore-based Jiayu Li, senior associate at the public-policy advisory firm Global…

Just like a boxer needs his entry music, US presidential candidates have long used songs as campaign anthems. For bands and musicians, this can be an honor, though that’s not always the case. The White Stripes are now taking legal action against the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump because he used their super hit “Seven Nation Army” without permission. In a video posted on X that has since been deleted, Trump was seen boarding a plane with the iconic opening riff of the song playing in the background. Jack White, the band’s singer and guitarist, published a picture of the…

There are hundreds of huge stone statues on Rapa Nui — the so-called Moai. No one has ever conclusively found out why they exist. But researchers have long assumed that many thousands of people must have lived on the Pacific island, also known as Easter Island, to erect the colossal figures. Ancestors of contemporary Polynesians first settled on the then-uninhabited volcanic island around the year 1210. No other inhabited place is so isolated in the world. Rapa Nui is 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles) from the nearest inhabited island and almost 3,800 kilometers from the Chilean mainland. Early theories assumed that…

What does the new format look like? A little more like a league than a cup, at least initially. The new format was already evident at last month’s draw, which was to determine the fixtures of the new league phase, as opposed to placing teams into groups, as had previously been the case. The 36 qualifying teams were divided in to four seeded pots of nine. Real Madrid, winners of last season’s competition and the teams with the eight best coefficient rankings (based on previous European performance) were placed in Pot 1, the teams with the next nine best coefficient rankings formed Pot 2, and so…

Highest flood warnings have been declared at some 100 places in the Czech Republic, with most regions in the country affected. Austria, Poland and Romania have also been hard-hit. DW has the latest.

A shrinking voter turnout globally and increasingly contested election results are posing a risk to the credibility of democracy, a new report revealed on Tuesday. The report published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) said that global voter turnout between 2008 and 2023 plunged by 10 percentage points, going from 65.2 to 55.5. What does the report say? The annual report, which has been measuring democratic performance in 158 countries since 1975, revealed that 47% of nations witnessed a decline in crucial indicators over the past five years, making it the eighth consecutive year of global democratic decline. The international watchdog…