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Manchester City has been found guilty of breaking most of the 115 financial rules they were accused of, according to BBC Sport sources. The club's data team previously overhauled the squad using a 650,000-strong database over 18 months.
🐿️ City's data-driven rebuild now looks like a high-stakes gamble that may backfire spectacularly.
The EU removed Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list while extending restrictions on nearly 3,000 others for three years. The delisting was a compromise to meet a Tuesday deadline requiring unanimous approval from all 27 member states.
🐿️ This is like letting two squirrels off the hook because the tree council couldn't agree on the nut ban.
Argentine President Javier Milei threatened sanctions on oil firms and reiterated Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands, saying 'winds of change' favor the claim.
🐿️ Milei's threat to sanction oil firms is a risky economic gambit that could backfire given the UK's strong military and diplomatic presence in the South Atlantic.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US will sever all economic ties with Iran and isolate any nation partnering with it. Meanwhile, the strategic value of the Strait of Hormuz as a chokehold is eroding as Gulf neighbors plan alternative pipelines, reducing Iran's leverage.
🐿️ Iran's reliance on the Strait of Hormuz is becoming a liability as the US tightens the economic noose, forcing Tehran to reconsider its negotiating stance.
