In response to the ongoing protests against ICE immigration raids in Los Angeles, US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 2, 000 National Guard troops. The troops were cited as a result of “lawlessness” in the city. In protest of the immigration sweeps and the deployment of the national guard, activists have demanded a third day of demonstrations on Sunday.
Borussia Dortmund have agreed a deal with Sunderland to sign Jobe Bellingham for an initial 32m euros (£26.96m) plus 5m euros (£4.2m) in add-ons.
The 19-year-old midfielder had garnered interest from across Europe but it is Dortmund, former home of elder brother Jude, who are set to secure his signature.
Bellingham has played for Sunderland since 2023 and helped them secure Premier League promotion this past season, making 43 appearances for the Black Cats and scoring four goals across all competitions.
Borussia Dortmund experienced an inconsistent season in 2024-25 but had a strong finish to the campaign winning their final five matches to finish fourth and secure Champions League football for next season.
If the deal is completed by 10 June, Bellingham would be able to play in the upcoming Club World Cup.
That tournament takes place in the United States from 14 June to 13 July.
It is thought Bellingham is keen to follow in his brother’s footsteps.
Jude, two years Jobe’s senior, also came through Birmingham City’s academy before moving to Dortmund in 2020 and then Real Madrid in 2023.
Bellingham is already mirroring his brother’s career with the move to Dortmund and he was also named the Championship’s Young Player of the Year in May, five years after Jude won the same award.
Another connection between brothers may have helped facilitate Bellingham’s move to Dortmund.
The German club’s UK scout is Daniel Dodds, brother of Wycombe Wanderers boss Mike, who worked with both brothers in the Birmingham academy.
Mike Dodds was also part of the coaching staff at Sunderland when Jobe Bellingham made the move from St Andrew’s to the Stadium of Light.
“I think he can go to the very top,” Mike Dodds told the Northern Echo in 2023.
Married at First Sight Australia groom Adrian Araouzou has been widely criticised by fans after publishing an Instagram post that many thought was misogynistic. Earlier this week, he uploaded a video captioned “Unpopular opinion” which shows him eating on a camp chair.
He wrote across the screen: “High standards because I don’t want my kids to have a mum who’s drunk every weekend, thinks it’s ok to disrespect their body, looks at doing anything for their man as a chore, has no faith in God, or prioritises material things over nature’s beauty.” Fans weren’t impressed with the message – and many criticised him for it.
One wrote: “Misogynistic manosphere springs to mind… Andrew Tate!” Another said: “what do you bring to the table though…” A third said: “Wow…unfolding. The way you speak about women is disgusting. She can wear what she likes and have fun on the weekends.
READ MORE: MAFS star drops behind-the-scenes bombshells – from odd rule to ‘creating drama’
“Mothers are not just mothers…they are their own person too! Should a woman not drink alcohol or dress up and have fun because she is a mother!!! Wow. How they let you on MAFS baffles me.” Someone wrote: “You just hit a new low here..”
One more hinted that Adrian’s post may be directed to Awhina Rutene, who was paired with him om MAFS – but their relationship faced challenges, including a cheating scandal. She has since moved on with Billy Belcher, who is originally from England but has been living in Australia for the past 15 years.
The comment read: “This post shows exactly what type of man you are. Just because you can now see she is happy and met someone who actually cares about her and her son…. The jealousy is just wow.” Despite widespread criticism, Adrian also received some support in the comment section, where one wrote: “Love it, straight to the point!”
Another said: “Why are people assuming Adriana is aiming this at Awhina? And these are his standards, we all have standards.” One more added: “Everyone has preference, if his don’t align with yours then just move on, he wouldn’t want ya as much as you don’t want him.”
On MAFS, Awhina and Adrian hit things off straight away on their wedding day when they realised they were both a twin, and with their family dynamics in common, it seemed like the perfect pairing. However, things went downhill on the honeymoon when Adrian made some cutting remarks when he found out Awhina had a son – telling her he’d struggle to be able to “love” someone else’s child.
Despite more rocky moments in their relationship, they managed to get all the way to the end to the final vows. They later decided to try and make their relationship work away from TV screens, but have since broken up. Awhina has now confirmed her relationship with Billy on Instagram after posting a mirror selfie of them with the caption: “I’ll keep this one.”
The Mirror has contacted Adrian Araouzou for comment.
Married at First Sight Australia groom Adrian Araouzou has been widely criticised by fans after publishing an Instagram post that many thought was misogynistic. Earlier this week, he uploaded a video captioned “Unpopular opinion” which shows him eating on a camp chair.
He wrote across the screen: “High standards because I don’t want my kids to have a mum who’s drunk every weekend, thinks it’s ok to disrespect their body, looks at doing anything for their man as a chore, has no faith in God, or prioritises material things over nature’s beauty.” Fans weren’t impressed with the message – and many criticised him for it.
One wrote: “Misogynistic manosphere springs to mind… Andrew Tate!” Another said: “what do you bring to the table though…” A third said: “Wow…unfolding. The way you speak about women is disgusting. She can wear what she likes and have fun on the weekends.
READ MORE: MAFS star drops behind-the-scenes bombshells – from odd rule to ‘creating drama’
“Mothers are not just mothers…they are their own person too! Should a woman not drink alcohol or dress up and have fun because she is a mother!!! Wow. How they let you on MAFS baffles me.” Someone wrote: “You just hit a new low here..”
One more hinted that Adrian’s post may be directed to Awhina Rutene, who was paired with him om MAFS – but their relationship faced challenges, including a cheating scandal. She has since moved on with Billy Belcher, who is originally from England but has been living in Australia for the past 15 years.
The comment read: “This post shows exactly what type of man you are. Just because you can now see she is happy and met someone who actually cares about her and her son…. The jealousy is just wow.” Despite widespread criticism, Adrian also received some support in the comment section, where one wrote: “Love it, straight to the point!”
Another said: “Why are people assuming Adriana is aiming this at Awhina? And these are his standards, we all have standards.” One more added: “Everyone has preference, if his don’t align with yours then just move on, he wouldn’t want ya as much as you don’t want him.”
On MAFS, Awhina and Adrian hit things off straight away on their wedding day when they realised they were both a twin, and with their family dynamics in common, it seemed like the perfect pairing. However, things went downhill on the honeymoon when Adrian made some cutting remarks when he found out Awhina had a son – telling her he’d struggle to be able to “love” someone else’s child.
Despite more rocky moments in their relationship, they managed to get all the way to the end to the final vows. They later decided to try and make their relationship work away from TV screens, but have since broken up. Awhina has now confirmed her relationship with Billy on Instagram after posting a mirror selfie of them with the caption: “I’ll keep this one.”
The Mirror has contacted Adrian Araouzou for comment.
Thai and Cambodian forces will return to their previously agreed-upon positions on the border, both sides have announced, after the two governments reinforced their military presence following an eruption of violence that killed a Cambodian soldier.
Thai Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Sunday that both sides hoped the thorny border issue could be fully resolved through a meeting on Saturday of the Joint Boundary Committee, which was set up to facilitate bilateral negotiations.
But Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn reiterated that his government had called on the International Court of Justice to resolve the border dispute.
“Given the complexity, historical nature and sensitivity of these disputes, it is increasingly evident that bilateral dialogue alone may no longer suffice to bring about a comprehensive and lasting solution”, Sokhonn said.
However, Thailand has said it does not recognise the court’s jurisdiction and proposes to settle the matter through bilateral negotiations.
The two countries have, for more than a century, contested sovereignty over undemarcated points along their shared border when France mapped out Cambodia in 1907 when it was a French colony.
Since 2008, when fighting first broke out over an 11th-century Hindu temple, bouts of violence have sporadically occurred, resulting in the deaths of at least 28 people.
In the most recent outbreak on May 28, a Cambodian soldier was killed in the disputed border region between Cambodia’s , Preah Vihear province , and Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province.
While the Thai and Cambodian militaries agreed to quell tensions, Cambodia said it could keep its troops in the area despite Thailand urging it to leave.
On Saturday, the Thai army took control of the “opening and closing” of all border crossings it shares with Cambodia, referring to a “threat to Thailand’s sovereignty and security”.
According to government data, Thailand operates 17 official border crossings along the shared 817km (508-mile) frontier.
The latest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine is scheduled for next week as already agreed with Russian officials, Ukraine’s intelligence chief has said, rebuking Moscow’s allegation that Kyiv had indefinitely postponed the swap.
“The start of repatriation activities based on results and negotiations in Istanbul is scheduled for next week, as authorised persons on Tuesday were informed,” military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said in a statement on Sunday.
“Everything is moving according to plan, despite the enemy’s dirty information game”.
That barbed comment followed Russia’s pointed accusation on Saturday that Ukraine had indefinitely postponed the return of the bodies of 6,000 soldiers on each side and the exchange of wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war and prisoners of war under the age of 25.
Ukraine was “carefully adhering to the agreements reached in Istanbul”, Budanov countered, referring to a second round of negotiations that took place in the Turkish city on Monday.
Meanwhile, Russia said that it brought more than 1,000 bodies of slain Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange point while also handing over to Ukraine a first list of 640 prisoners of war, but that Ukrainian negotiators were not at the swap location. Ukraine denied the allegations and said Moscow should stop “playing dirty games”.
Melinda Haring, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, told Al Jazeera that it’s a good sign that the process seems to now be back on track.
“This is a big deal, because the prisoner exchange will be the largest that Ukraine and Russia have engaged in so far. And in the past, these exchanges have gone off pretty seamlessly,” Haring said. “So the fact that there were dual narratives about this in the middle of a big push at getting the Russians and the Ukrainians to agree on a peace negotiation was really troubling.
“POW [prisoner of war] exchanges are considered to be low-confidence ways of building trust in a bigger negotiation. So the fact that there was friction over this, and I believe it was on the Russian side, shows that there’s not a lot of interest in an actual peace negotiation on Moscow’s terms,” she said.
The two sides are no closer to any temporary ceasefire agreement as a concrete step towards ending the conflict despite some initial momentum from the United States, though US President Donald Trump appears to be losing patience in his campaign for a ceasefire, even suggesting the two be left to fight longer like children in a park before they be pulled apart.
Nor has Trump followed Ukraine’s European Union and United Kingdom allies in imposing harsher sanctions on Russia.
The duelling narratives and fading diplomatic momentum remain the backdrop to the grinding war, now in its fourth year, as both sides ratchet up attacks against each other.
In the early hours of Sunday, Russia said it shot down 10 Ukrainian drones near the capital, Moscow, forcing two key airports to suspend their activities. That came a week after Ukraine conducted an audacious and unprecedented drone operation targeting nuclear-capable military aircraft in multiple airbases deep inside Russia, including in Siberia. Kyiv claims it destroyed 14 percent of Russia’s strategic bombers.
But Ukrainians have also been under heavy attack. In the past days, Russian forces have pounded the country, hitting multiple locations and killing more than a dozen civilians over the weekend, with Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, the worst hit.
They have also made significant advances on the ground. Russia says its forces have entered Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time since the war began three years ago. The Russian Defence Ministry said tank units have reached the western border of the region and are continuing their offensive. The industrial region is home to three million people and includes the major city of Dnipro. Ukraine has not yet commented.
“It is significant because the region of Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the regions that Russia sees as now being part of the Russian Federation after the referendums that were held back in 2022,” said Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Kyiv.