In light of the country’s extreme volatility in the country’s financial markets, US President Donald Trump has offered to support Argentina’s economy.
Following a significant selloff of its assets, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated on Monday that Washington is prepared to do “what is needed” to stabilize the Latin American nation’s economy.
According to Bessent, options for assisting Buenos Aires include central bank currency swaps, direct currency purchases, and the purchase of US dollar-denominated government debt.
The Treasury Secretary said further details would be revealed after Tuesday’s meeting between Trump, Bessent, and Argentine President Javier Milei in New York.
Argentina will be Great Again, according to Bessent, who described Buenos Aires as a “systemically important US ally” on X.
Following Bessent’s comments, the Argentinian peso, stocks, and bonds increased.
Milei thanked the Trump administration for its “unconditional support,” which led to an upset election victory in 2023 when she promised to halt runaway inflation and decades of economic decline.
Milei said on X that “the people who support the principles of freedom must work together for the well-being of our peoples.”
The Argentinian leader has become a significant Trump ally in the Americas and frequently appears on American conservative platforms.
Following Milei’s La Libertad Avanza coalition’s disastrous performance in local elections earlier this month, investors rushed to unload the peso and government bonds.
Milei’s chances of winning the nation’s midterm elections in Buenos Aires province have been squelched by the result, which the libertarian leader hopes will give him a stronger mandate to carry out his campaign of right-wing economic reforms.
Argentina’s economy was helped by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank, which agreed to provide bailout funds in April.
Without being recognized, Sir Chris Hoy or Sir Andy Murray could not enter the city center. Even without his Olympic medals clanking around his neck, Duncan Scott might get a good few second glances.
However, Jack Carlin did it quite simply and unintentionally wander through Scotland’s largest city earlier this week.
Only two of Carlin’s Scottish compatriots have won more Olympic medals since his silver and bronze medals in Paris last summer. Hoy and Scott are the only other two. Even though he can surpass Carlin with two golds, even Murray falls short of his four-game total.
Not that the ebullient cyclist’s low profile even bothers him at all.
When I’m eating a sausage roll while walking down the road, he says, “the last thing I want to be stopped.”
When the Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow next summer, the city’s residents might care a little more.
Carlin, who was a fan of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in 2014, will play a key role in the reimagined event.
The 28-year-old has a wrong to right, as if playing a home game wasn’t enough motivation, given that he now lives just up the street in the city’s east end.
Carlin has reached the top of the podium 19 times in international competition, but he has never done so.
His Commonwealth winning streak includes silver, bronze, and keirin silver from three years ago, while his broken ankle 12 weeks away from Paris hampered his chances at the previous Olympics.
His focus is on the summer of next, after spending several months in Australia and south-east Asia.
I would never have believed him if someone said to 17-year-old Jack, sitting in the Glasgow 2014 spectators, “Listen, you’d be talking about a home Commonwealth Games, 12 years later, with four Olympic medals around your neck,” he says.
“It’s undoubtedly an exciting time for both Scottish and Glaswegian.”
Taylor Swift has 11 studio albums, but a former friend claims to have unreleased tracks that show how her talent sparkled from a young age.
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Taylor Swift ’s music has dominated the charts for almost two decades – but her love life and her public feuds have at times threatened to obscure her huge talent. Now, a new Channel 4 documentary reveals how Taylor’s songwriting prowess and ability to connect with her audience has always been her superpower, enabling her to clap back at her critics with lyrical precision.
When Taylor was just 13 years old, she and her friend Robert Ellis Orrall worked together to create a demo that included three tracks called Invisible, Just South of Knowing Why, and Need You Now.
Robert recalls their studio sessions, reiterating that Taylor had Taylor directed the session right away. In the first two days of our relationship, we recorded three songs, two of which are included on Taylor Swift’s debut album. Her father said, “Here’s another 15 that she wrote,” after we’d written a few songs.
Robert reveals that he has sixteen more Taylor-written songs that have never been heard by the general public while holding up a CD for the camera.
On the show, which features interviews with many of Taylor’s early collaborators, he declares, “I have tons of these from way back.” 16 of our songs are copyrighted in 2003, the same year we began writing. You have never heard of any of those.
Robert credits Taylor with having all the original ideas, claiming that she was a powerhouse even in her early years, when she co-wrote the book. Robert was able to identify her as a huge star when he first met her while he was working with her. On her debut album, Place in This World, Robert was one of the co-writers, and he was confident that it would appeal to listeners. Millions of kids could relate to that, according to Robert. She “had a plan,” she said, “and she wasn’t going to change it.” She would not be halted. Right and center, she was being told “no” by people, but she was not doing that.
Taylor was encouraged to sing at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville because he had a regular slot there thanks to Robert’s assistance in getting her discovered. Scott Borchetta spotted her at that time, and he gave her her a signed Big Machine Records label.
Taylor talks about her big break in the documentary’s audio. She claims, “I’m looking out and seeing all these faces, and one guy has his eyes closed and I kept noticing him, and he said, “Hi, I’m Scott Borchetta. The good news is that I want to start my own record labels and that I want to have one of my first artists, he says.
The pair worked together for 12 years and released six albums. Then in 2016 Taylor’s ongoing feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian blew up and threatened her career. Kanye’s song Famous contained sexual lyrics about Taylor which she publicly took issue with. Then, Kim released clips of a video of a phone call appearing to show Taylor approving the lyrics. The backlash from this was not kind and when Kim called her a snake, #TaylorSwift IsASnake went viral.
Taylor’s mother Andrea was the subject of a video that shows how the fallout affected the young star. She is portrayed as saying, “I’ve been doing this for 15 years, I’m tired of it,” in the video. At this point, it seems like it’s more than just music; on average, I’m like “OK,” but occasionally I’m like “it just gets loud.” Taylor retreated from the public eye, but she soon made a comeback, this time with the snake motif, which was prominent on her Reputation album from 2017 and subsequent tour.
In 2020, the full video of the Kanye call was released, proving Taylor had not fully approved the lyrics. Also in 2017, Taylor’s life away from music made headlines once more when she won a sexual assault civil case against DJ David Mueller.
She stated at the time, “I acknowledge the privilege that I enjoy in life, in society, and in being able to bear the high cost of defending myself in a trial like this.” I want to assist those whose voices should also be heard. I’ll be making donations to a number of organizations that support sexual assault victims’ self-defense in the near future.
In 2019, fans were again supportive of Taylor when she spoke out in fury after she parted ways with Scott Borchetta and he sold her back catalogue to Scooter Brau n. Taylor asked fans to weigh in on her behalf.
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However, Channel 4 ’s new documentary sees her first manager Rick Barker slam her behaviour. He says, “No one stole her music, no one made her sign a bad record deal.” This year, Taylor, now 35, announced her engagement to American football star Travis Kelce. And even her former manager Rick is wishing her well. He tells the film crew, “I hope what comes next for Taylor is that she has found her person and that she gets to experience the things that most people get to experience and that some people give the girl a break.”
Matt Graveling, BBC Sport correspondent and Daniel Austin, BBC Sport senior journalist
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Premier League games are a regular fixture for some football fans. They also purchase season tickets for away games and travel throughout the nation with their team.
For some, attending a top-tier game in England is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity they can reclaim and take extended breaks from their daily lives for.
James from South Korea paid £900 for a ticket purchased from an unlicensed resale website last weekend to travel 5, 500 miles to Brighton to watch his beloved Tottenham play for the first time. He was denied entry to the stadium when he attempted to.
When James attempted to scan the ticket, it had already deactivated. He was given the instructions to go to the ticket office, where Brighton staff informed him that his ticket had been fraudulently purchased.
He appeared to be upset outside the stadium, saying, “I’m disappointed, I didn’t understand this rule.”
“I was told to try to get the ticket refunded,” I was told.
More than a hundred more people like James also had their tickets canceled in the same way.
Reselling is prohibited in the UK, but many websites still have locations abroad.
According to the BBC investigation, resellers frequently rack up hundreds of tickets using fake identities and fake identities to sell them for higher prices, leaving customers with extortionate prices or completely out of pocket after purchasing ineffective tickets.
According to Tom Greatrex, president of the Football Supporters’ Association, “long-term supporters are finding it impossible to get tickets because they are made available through secondary agencies.”
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Brighton claim they are attempting to stop ticket sales at exorbitant prices through unlicensed websites. They are using new technologies.
Joseph Sells was on duty for the Tottenham fixture this season to try and solve the issue. This year, they hired him into a new staff position as tickets investigation officer.
According to Sells, “We’ve discovered hundreds of unauthorised resale tickets] today, and by moving at the black market rate, we’ve prevented about £100,000 of transactions that would have been touts,” according to Sells.
“We’re making significant investments to stop the issue from the beginning using the most recent technology,” he said.
A family brought six tickets, totaling £6, 000, to watch the Manchester City game a fortnight ago.
“That’s very upsetting, of course. If you want to attend a game, you can purchase directly from the club. It’s a sad story, but we’re repeating it.
Later, Brighton later reported to the BBC that 285 touted tickets had been revoked and that 12 individual season ticket holders had their tickets for upcoming matches also been identified as touts.
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The Premier League is already enacting new regulations for digital ticketing, including those that, according to them, will make it harder to sell tickets.
Sells claims that while he shares resources with other clubs, Brighton’s software searches for suspicious transactions and searches resale sites for tickets with seat numbers.
He claims that we are essentially teaching a model how to spot bad behavior before it enters the club. Each transaction is given a risk score.
Let’s say someone in Estonia uses a United Arab Emirates prepaid card to make purchases. This will flag the system.
The model “teachs how to spot more anomalies daily” claims the model.
Fans at Brighton are given a letter outlining the incident and ending with the phrase “To obtain a refund you should contract your card issuers who will assist you as a victim of fraud in reclaiming monies you have paid to the seller.”
Fans whose tickets are blocked on entry can also purchase any remaining seats in the stadium, either from season ticket holders who are unable to attend or from those in the hospitality section.
In a remote area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, at least 24 people were killed in explosions, including children, which sparked inquiries into the incident.
A local police official claimed that fighters and civilians were killed when bomb-making material allegedly stored at a Pakistan Taliban compound, known as the TTP, detonated in the Tirah Valley region early on Monday.
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However, a large number of local opposition figures and other authorities accuse the Pakistani military of conducting nighttime airstrikes as part of a “counterterror operation” to expel fighters from mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government or the armed forces have not yet released an official statement.
According to Zafar Khan, a local police officer, at least 10 civilians, including children and women, were killed in addition to at least 14 fighters, two of whom were TTP commanders, according to The Associated Press news agency.
In Khyber, Bajaur, and other areas of the northwest, security forces are conducting operations against the Pakistani Taliban. Since its inception in 2007, the outlawed group has been staging an armed uprising against Pakistan’s government. Although the organizations share common ideological roots, they are distinct from the Taliban, which has been in place in Afghanistan.
An attack on unarmed civilians
Iqbal Afridi, a member of the opposition’s National Assembly whose district includes Tirah, which is close to Afghanistan’s border, claimed that Pakistani airstrikes caused the explosions.
Lawmaker Sohail Khan Afridi also attributed the attack to the military while speaking at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly on Monday afternoon.
He claimed that the security forces’ assault was nothing more than an attack on unarmed civilians.
Both politicians are members of Imran Khan’s provincial government, which is led by former prime minister Imran Khan.
According to Babar Saleem Swati, the speaker of the provincial assembly, “civilites were killed and homes were destroyed as a result of jet aircraft bombardment,” which will have a negative impact on the country’s future.
According to Swati, “when the blood of our own people is made so cheap and bombs are dropped on them, everyone starts to burn,” and federal and provincial governments should launch a fair investigation and pay compensation to the families who have been affected.
Independent monitor, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, expressed its shock at learning that the attack claimed the lives of children and civilians.
Relive the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup final, when England defeated Canada to put an end to a run of three final defeats in a row.
On BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app, watch England v. Canada play in the women’s rugby world cup final on Saturday, September 27 at 15:00 BST.
