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When Barcelona announced in January they had signed Frenkie de Jong from Ajax, the midfielder became the latest in an illustrious pipeline of Dutch imports to the Catalan club. Since Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff brought Dutch ‘Total Football’ to Barcelona in the 1970s, there has been a steady stream of talent moving south from the Netherlands. De Jong is proud to join the likes of compatriots Ronald Koeman, Frank de Boer and Patrick Kluivert in heading to the Nou Camp, having dreamed of wearing Barca colours. “I think it’s a bit because of Cruyff,” De Jong told Reuters in…

Shares in Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct have plunged by up to 27% as investors gave their first reaction to financial results – delayed several times in bizarre fashion last week. The stock fell sharply at the open and settled around 10% down in early trading on Monday morning.It was not until after dealing had concluded on Friday that the retailer finally revealed numbers for the year to the end of April after several false starts. Market analysts wrote at the time that the handling of the results statement had amounted to a “shambles”. After the initial share price plunge on…

The chief executive of Vauxhall-owner PSA says it could move all production from its Ellesmere Port factory if Brexit makes it unprofitable. Carlos Tavares told the Financial Times that the carmaker has alternatives to the plant which it could use. The move would probably lead to the closure of the site, the FT said, threatening 1,000 jobs. That would leave Vauxhall’s Luton-based van plant as its last presence in the UK.

Meghan, wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, has chosen to feature 15 women she considers “Forces for change” on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue that she guest-edited, Buckingham Palace said. The Duchess of Sussex, who gave birth to her first child in May, spent seven months working with British Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful on the issue. The former actress, 37, said in a statement she had sought to steer the focus of the September issue – usually the year’s most-read – to “the values, causes and people making an impact in the world today”. The cover of…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union that the Irish backstop, which he said was undemocratic, needed to be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit Deal. Johnson, since taking office, has repeatedly warned that if the EU continues to refuse to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement agreed by his predecessor, Theresa May, then he will take Britain out on Oct. 31 without a deal. His biggest demand is that the most hotly contested element of the Brexit divorce agreement – the Irish border backstop – be struck out of the Withdrawal Agreement, a demand that has angered…

Turkish authorities raided a printing press in Istanbul, where nearly $271 million worth of fake banknotes were being printed. Stacks of counterfeit $100 banknotes were found by police and anti-crime and anti-smuggling authorities during the search in Istanbul’s Esenyurt neighbourhood Police said among the five people arrested, one had been earlier dismissed from the police force for suspected membership of a network that Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed military coup in 2016. Ankara has accused U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the attempted putsch in July 2016. He has denied any involvement. Authorities were searching for two more…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to make the United Kingdom the greatest place on earth by leaving the European Union on October 31. “Our mission is to deliver Brexit on the 31st of October for the purpose of uniting and re-energizing our great United Kingdom and making this country the greatest place on earth,” Johnson told parliament in his first speech as prime minister. Britain’s new leader has promised to do a new Brexit deal with the bloc in less than 99 days but has also warned that if EU leaders refused – something he said was a “remote…

Enough of adversarial politics…. Let’s move on to calmer waters… Britain’s newspapers headlines heralded former London mayor Boris Johnson as he prepared to take over as prime minister. The former London mayor won the contest to succeed Theresa May, securing the leadership of the Conservative Party in a campaign put the United Kingdom on course for a showdown with the European Union. Johnson’s cabinet choices will help to flesh out how he intends to manage the world’s fifth-largest economy and its divorce from the EU at one of the most fateful moments in its modern history.  With the pound stuck…

Education minister Anne Milton has resigned from the government, citing “grave concerns” about Boris Johnson’s support for leaving the EU without a deal. Ms Milton is the second Tory minister to quit ahead of Mr Johnson’s appointment as prime minister, with speculation of a further exodus before he enters No 10 on Wednesday. Mr Johnson’s refusal to rule out a no-deal Brexit has caused alarm in Westminster, with a string of senior cabinet ministers saying they cannot serve under his leadership. The prior resignation of Alan Duncan, a junior foreign office minister who has long been critical of the now…

Boris Johnson is expected to be elected leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and the country’s next prime minister, tasked with following through on his “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit in just over three months time. Arriving at his London office on Tuesday morning, Johnson was confronted by a silent protester wielding a sign reading ‘Freedom, Independence, Identity, Democracy, Sovereignty’. He declined to answer questions from the media. Johnson and his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, have spent the last month criss-crossing the country seeking to win over the less than 200,000 Conservative Party members who will choose…