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Chelsea could help Man Utd’s Ronaldo problemManchester United will have to pay Cristiano Ronaldo nearly £10 million if they want to terminate his contract. The Sun state that the 37-year-old is owed that figure in basic wages for the remainder of his current deal, which runs until June. The club could attempt to reduce that fee if they find out Ronaldo’s refusal to come off the bench against Tottenham Hotspur was in breach of his contract. However, the Sun also reveal that Chelsea could offer an interesting opportunity as the Blues owner Todd Boehly is open to negotiating a deal…

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says it has been a “tricky set of circumstances” to put the federal budget together. “Governments haven’t had to deal with some of these issues for over a decade,” she told Sky News Australia. “We are trying to put together the most responsible, sensible budget that actually helps households deal with this inflation challenge which is hitting their hip pockets.” Source: Sky News

San Francisco’s three-year plan to build a single public toilet for $1.7 million could be going down the drain as California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening to withhold the funds until the city figures out a more efficient away to use the money.The toilet’s sky-high cost was met with outcry last week, prompting California Assemblyman Matt Haney to cancel an event celebrating the new bathroom in the Noe Valley Town Square.Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, is now threatening to withhold the funds altogether.”A single, small bathroom should not cost $1.7 million,” Erin Mellon, a spokesperson for Newsom, told…

“We once again sternly warned (the) enemies that staged maritime provocations on top of the firing of artillery shots and cross-border loudspeaker broadcasts,” the spokesman added, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. The maritime border is considered a flashpoint, and has been the location of several clashes between the two Koreas over the years. Tensions have soared in recent weeks with North Korea conducting several missile launches and artillery barrages that have provoked South Korea and Japan and worried their Western allies. Pyongyang has dramatically ramped up its military exercises recently as Seoul and Washington say North Korean leader…

SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged warning shots off the west coast on Monday, accusing each other of breaching their maritime borders amid heightened military tension. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it broadcast warnings and fired warning shots to see off a North Korean merchant vessel that crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto sea boundary, at around 3.40 am (2.40am Singapore time). The North’s military said it fired 10 rocket artillery rounds after a South Korean navy ship violated the NLL and fired warning shots “on the pretext of tracking down an unidentified ship,”…

Every year, crosses are erected in a park along Memorial Drive to pay tribute individually to the thousands of Southern Albertans who made the ultimate sacrifice — defending freedom. This year, volunteers installed 3,620 crosses during Saturday’s snowfall. For the past 13 years, students from Delta West Academy have placed silk poppies on the crosses which each bear the name, age at death, rank, regiment and date of death of a southern Alberta soldier who died in war or peacekeeping missions.For students like Makena Dennis, walking through the Field of Crosses gave her a chance to reflect on the ages…

Cyril Ramaphosa has proposed independent panels to vet board appointments at state companies rather than the inquiry’s call for a ban on loyalists being deployed to public roles © Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has re-established a permanent anti-corruption agency in Africa’s most industrialised nation in his official response to the findings of an inquiry that blamed his governing African National Congress for the country’s worst post-apartheid graft scandal.Ramaphosa announced the overhaul in a televised address on Sunday as part of “a new chapter in our struggle against corruption” after a decade of accusations of looting under Jacob…

European, US and Asian consumers are returning to “austerity shopping behaviours” common in the 1970s and 1980s as inflation squeezes budgets for food and household goods, research has shown.Data group IRI said households were turning back to measures such as making packed lunches, buying cut-price food that is out of date, curbing their alcohol intake and visiting multiple supermarkets to secure the cheapest deals.The changes in how people shop for household essentials are cutting into sales growth for consumer products and boosting supermarket own-label brands.The research follows evidence of people cutting back on bigger-ticket items such as clothing earlier in…

Both the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Chargers took a hit with knee injuries to some of their best players.J.C. Jackson and D.K. Metcalf both suffered knee injuries in the game in southern California.Jackson was looking to defend a pass, but landed very awkwardly and immediately grabbed his knee. Jackson was carted off the field and into the locker room.The 26-year-old missed the first game of the season after he underwent surgery to remove an extra bone he was born with. JETS ROOKIE PHENOM LEAVES GAME WITH KNEE INJURY SHORTLY AFTER 62-YARD TOUCHDOWNJackson signed an $82.5 million deal with the…

Nic Claxton followed up one double-double with a second for the first time in his career, and his superstar teammates immediately started pushing for another. And another. And another. The Nets are not about to let Claxton slow up after his fast start, which included 13 points and 10 rebounds in a loss to the Pelicans and 19 points and 11 rebounds in a win against the Raptors. More than ever is expected out of Claxton, 23, after the Nets parted ways with three rotational frontcourt veterans during the offseason. “I’m happy he played well, we want him to keep…