After Manchester United improved their offer for Bryan Mbeumo, Ibrahima Konate turned down a new contract offer from Liverpool, and Arsenal are interested in signing Bradley Barcola, Tottenham will concentrate on signing Eberechi Eze.
BayernMunich and Liverpool both want to sign ParisSt–Germain’s 22-year-old France international Bradley Barcola, who also has an Arsenal interest. (L’Equipe, in French, required, subscription required)
After losing ground attracted to Crystal Palace’s 26-year-old England winger Bryan Mbeumo, Brentford’s Cameroon forward, following ManchesterUnited’s improved offer for the 25-year-old for more than £60 million. (Talksport)
Ibrahima Konate, a 26-year-old France defender on a contract until the summer, turned down the club’s most recent offer for a new deal. (Guardian)
England goalkeeper James Trafford, age 22, is in talks with Burnley over a deal. (Romano-Fabrizio)
Jamie Gittens, a 20-year-old English winger for Borussia Dortmund, is still a target for Bayern Munich despite having a verbal agreement with Chelsea. (Sky Germany)
As part of a deal with Manchester United for English winger Jadon Sancho, Juventus are prepared to offer Serbian striker Dusan Vlahovic, 25, and Brazilian midfielder Douglas Luiz, 27, both. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian)
Roony Bardghji, a 19-year-old Swedish winger from FC Copenhagen, is close to signing for Barcelona in a roughly £2 million deal. (Sky Sports)
Despite reports that claim they have, Monaco are yet to agree to a deal with free agent and 32-year-old former France international Paul Pogba. (Sky Sports)
In retaliation for US strikes on several important Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, Iran has launched an attack on a US military base in Qatar.
After Iran fired a missile barrage at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base on Monday, which had been evacuated and was under the control of Qatari air defenses, no injuries have yet been reported.
Numerous nations have vehemently condemned the attack, despite the fact that some analysts believe the Iranian response’s relatively small response indicates a desire to calm tensions with the US.
Some of the responses made by various nations are listed below.
United States
US President Donald Trump wrote in a post on the Truth Social platform, “Iran officially obliterated their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we anticipated and have successfully countered. 14 missiles have been fired, of which 13 were knocked down and 1 was ‘set free’ because it was heading in a safe direction. No Americans were hurt, and hardly any harm was caused, is a good thing. Most importantly, they have completely eliminated their “system,” and there can, at least, be no more dread. Iran has provided us with timely notice, which prevented any injuries and lost lives. I’m likely to support Iran’s efforts to achieve Peace and Harmony in the Area, and I’m sure that Israel will do the same. I appreciate you paying attention to this issue! ”
Qatar
The Minister of Foreign Affairs’ official spokesperson, Dr. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s attack on Al-Udeid Air Base was condemned by the State of Qatar, according to Mahed bin Mohammed Al Ansari, who viewed this as a flagrant violation of Qatar’s sovereignty, its airspace, international law, and the United Nations Charter.
He stated that Qatar has the right to respond immediately in accordance with international law in a manner equivalant to the nature and scale of this violent aggression. ”
Saudi Arabia
The aggression by Iran against the brotherly State of Qatar, which is a flagrant violation of international law and the principles of good neighborliness, and is inexcusable, and cannot be justified under any circumstances, is condemned and condemned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ”
United Arab Emirates
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s attack of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the sister state of Qatar, was viewed as a flagrant violation of Qatar’s airspace and sovereignty, and a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter, by the United Arab Emirates. The UAE reaffirmed its unwavering opposition to any attack that threatens Qatar’s security and safety and threatens the region’s stability and security. ”
Bahrain
Following the Iranian attack on its territory, the Kingdom of Bahrain pledges its full support to Qatar, its sister state.
In these difficult circumstances, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries make the necessary efforts to exercise self-restraint, prevent escalation, and settle all disputes peacefully with the sisterly State of Qatar, as required by the bond of brotherhood and blood. ”
Kuwait
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s attacks on Al Udeid Air Base in the sisterly State of Qatar are strongly condemned and denounced by the State of Kuwait. This attack violates international law, Qatar’s airspace, international law, and the United Nations Charter in a flagrant way. It constitutes a perilous escalation that threatens the region’s stability, security, and peace.
The State of Kuwait pledges its full support for the brothers who live in Qatar’s sister state, Qatar’s leadership, government, and people, as well as its full support for all efforts to safeguard its sovereignty, security, and stability, including its right to respond directly to a direct threat that is proportionate to the magnitude of this flagrant aggression. ”
France
Qatar, which has been struck by Iran on its soil, is shown France’s solidarity, according to President Emmanuel Macron’s statement. I keep in touch with the regional partners and the country’s authorities. I urge everyone to restrain themselves, de-escalate, and return to the table of negotiations. This chaotic spiral must end. ”
Bryan Mbeumo, a Brentford striker, has received an improved bid of more than £60 million from Manchester United.
The 25-year-old’s bid for £45 million plus up to £10 million in add-ons was rejected this month by United.
This week is expected to see the continuation of discussions regarding the Cameroon international’s potential second signing of the summer.
Before they return to pre-season training on July 7th, United are eager to strengthen Ruben Amorim’s squad after signing Matheus Cunha for £62.5 million from Wolves.
There has also been interest in the forward from other Champions League clubs, with Thomas Frank, who recently took over as manager of Tottenham, wanting to be reunited with Mbeumo.
As with Cunha, Mbeumo’s Premier League experience is viewed as a major plus because Amorim needs players who can launch the season with a more positive start than their three slow outings under Erik ten Hag.
Mbeumo helped the Bees get their 20 goals, which was his career-high, last season.
Because of Cameroon’s participation in the Morocco-Africa Cup of Nations, Mbeumo, an international partner of United goalkeeper Andre Onana, is likely to miss four weeks of the campaign for 2025-26.
On December 24th, Cameroon take on Gabon in their opening group game.
After posting an image of himself wearing an Aston Villa shirt with the name “Rashford” on his social media channels, Alejandro Garnacho’s future is once more the subject of heated debate with his new move.
Tasha Ghouri, the first deaf contestant to have a cochlear implant and EXCLUSIVE: Love Island star, has spoken out about her time on the show and the realities of living in a villa.
Tasha is sharing her experiences at the villa.
Former Love Island star Tasha Ghouri has lifted the lid on the reality show’s best-kept secrets – including her unusual habit of sneaking in a two-hour nap while the other girls got glammed up for the evening.
Tasha, 26, who won hearts during the 2022 series (Season 8) and made history as the show’s first deaf contestant with a cochlear implant, says her quick catnap was essential for surviving villa life.
She continued, “I wasn’t really a full glam girl.” I would ask the producers to wake me up just an hour before the other girls were doing their makeup for hours. In twenty minutes, I would apply bronzer, eyebrows, lip gloss, a little mascara, and curl my hair. Because I’ve been reading all day, it really helped me recharge. People talking over each other and having so many accents make you feel exhausted.
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Tasha coupled up with Andrew Le Page in the 2022 series of the show, coming fourth in the final(Image: Matt Frost/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
The model and dancer, who has teamed up with Philips for the Lumea IPL hair removal devices, admits she hasn’t had time to watch this year’s Love Island but says it remains addictive because it’s “a human and social experiment” that lets viewers watch friendships, romances – and fiery rows – unfold in real time.
Reflecting on her own series, Tasha revealed recouplings could drag on for up to five hours, with constant retakes if Islanders giggled at the wrong moment. And those secret “down days” weren’t quite the break fans might imagine – they still weren’t allowed to mix freely, but perks included pizza and McDonald’s feasts.
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Tasha, who wowed audiences on Strictly Come Dancing in 2024, after her villa stint, says her biggest mission was always representation. “I never saw anyone like me on TV growing up. Now, people decorate their cochlear implants because they’ve seen me dancing with mine. That’s the power of feeling seen.”
The model and dancer from Thirsk was born deaf and wore hearing aids until she was five-years-old, when she had a cochlear implant fitted.
She wants to raise more awareness for the deaf community and is confident in her deafness, which she refers to as her “superpower.”
What’s inside you and what’s inside you, according to the saying. So I’ve always told the younger generation to embrace their beauty because they are already enough, she exclaims.
At the age of 23, Tasha has come a long way since entering the Love Island villa, and she won’t soon let the trolls out.
Admitting her self-confidence has come on leaps and bounds since her reality TV days, she also reflects on the fact that even she still has the odd wobble.
Tasha took part in the Strictly Come Dancing 2024 season.
She explained that because of the pressure, bullying, and bullying in this industry, I had to develop thicker skin. “Obstacles actually make you stronger,” says the saying.
After Love Island, Tasha faced cruel ableist comments about her hearing – but rather than hide away, she used it as fuel. “I wanted people to understand why my voice sounded how it did and why I could be more sensitive sometimes. By speaking up, I realised I do have a voice and I deserve to be here – and I’m not stopping, even if people get sick of me!”
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She continued, “I was only 23 when I went in, self-employed, and figuring it all out,” as she recounted her whirlwind journey. I learned a lot about communication and individuality from that experience, and it helped me become much more powerful. In the last three years, I think I’ve grown more than ever. I’ll always be grateful for the platform that Love Island gave me.
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In contrast to his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor of Lagos State in 2023, Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, claims President Bola Tinubu won’t hesitate to sack any service chiefs who aren’t working.
On Sunday, the politician was a guest on Channels Television’s Inside Sources program.
Voters in New York City have already begun to cast their ballots, where the upcoming Democratic Party primary has attracted national attention.
Following nine days of early voting that ended on Sunday, polls will open on Tuesday.
The Democratic Party’s leadership in the race, which includes former governor Andrew Cuomo’s son, a former mayor with established experience, and young Democratic socialist state assembly member Zohran Mamdani, who has promised to address cost-of-living issues, has sparked a debate over the party’s future in New York and beyond.
The Democratic primary winner is regarded as the clear favorite to win the city’s November general election, with the incumbent mayor firmly leaning toward the left and the Republican candidate a long shot at winning.
Democratic incumbent mayor Eric Adams announced earlier this year that he would withdraw from the primary.
The city’s ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank several candidates based on their preference rather than voting for just one candidate, has also been highlighted by the race.
What are the status of the race as voters turn out for the polls, and what are the ranked choice voting’s advantages and disadvantages? We examine that and more in detail.
Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, addresses the media following his speech at a New York City event on June 22, 2025. [Photo: AFP]
When is the last day to vote?
On June 24, the New York City Democratic mayoral primary will be held with voting open from 6am to 9pm. Between June 14 and June 22, early voting took place.
The candidates are who?
Cuomo and Mamdani are in a battle to take the top spot in the country’s largest city, while others are running for the top spot as well.
After a report revealed that he had sexually harassed at least 11 women while serving as governor, Cuomo, a 67-year-old centrist former governor from a political dynasty in New York, launched an effort to resurrect. He eventually succumbed to this demand in 2021.
At a time when the federal government is under greater scrutiny from the administration of US President Donald Trump over issues like immigration enforcement, the former governor has positioned himself as the most experienced figure capable of leading the city.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist and state legislator with an immigrant background, has started a campaign with low success rates but has risen steadily as the young lawmaker makes an unflinchingly progressive pitch to voters. He has pledged to reform the political structure of the city and pass laws imposing a freeze on rent increases and free public transportation.
Cuomo and Mamdani are among the candidates running, despite the country’s attention currently favoring them.
They include New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, New York City Council member Adrienne Adams, New York City Council member Whitney Tilson, investor Michael Blake, political consultant, and former state senator Zellnor Myrie.
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani addresses the Gerald W. Lynch Theater’s June 12, 2025, debate at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
What makes this race so notable?
The race for mayor has been filled with drama, fitting New York’s reputation as one of the best cities in the world.
A stark contrast between competing visions for the city’s future has been drawn between Cuomo’s attempt to retake office after a previous governor’s attempt to do so in addition to Mamdani’s young, vibrant campaign with strong appeals to the city’s pluralistic identity.
Centrist figures like former president Bill Clinton have supported Cuomo, while progressive figures like Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have endorsed Mamdani.
The Middle East conflict has also had a significant impact on the race. Cuomo, a fervent supporter of Israel, has pledged to combat anti-Semitism. Mahmudani, a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights, has mentioned receiving anti-Muslim death threats during the campaign.
The Trump administration’s aggressive policy toward immigration enforcement has also been a turning point. When federal immigration agents temporarily detained Lander, the city’s comptroller, while he was escorting a man outside of immigration court, city officials and candidates reacted with fury last week.
What can we infer from the most recent polls?
Recent polls indicate that Mamdani and Cuomo are in a close fight.
In an Emerson poll conducted on Monday, Cuomo received 35 percent of the vote, Mamdani received 33 percent, Lander received 13 percent, and Adrienne Adams received 8 percent.
In a prior Emerson poll in late May, Cuomo received 34 percent, Mamdani received 22 percent, Lander received 10 percent, and Adrienne Adams received 8 percent.
In the final round, Cuomo defeats Mamdani by 45 percent, according to a Marist poll from June, while Emerson poll shows Mamdani with 52 percent, Cuomo with 48 percent, and Mamdani with 45 percent.
When will the outcomes be available?
Polls close at 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday (GMT, Wednesday), and some preliminary results should be made soon. Due to the city’s ranked-choice voting system, the final result will take longer to be tabulated.
Since the city is awaiting all mail-in ballots until July 1, ranked choice tabulation will not begin. On July 15, the official results will be released, but they may already be known.
How does ranked choice voting work?
People rank several candidates based on their preferences in ranked choice voting rather than just picking a single candidate.
Supporters claim that this is more complicated than a traditional election because it allows voters to express their preferences without casting an all-or-nothing vote.
Voters in New York order as many as five candidates according to their favorability. Only the first choices are counted during the first round of voting. A candidate’s overwhelming majority of more than 50% of the vote determines their candidacy.
If not, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and the second-choice pick is chosen based on the votes cast by the voters who placed them first.
The process continues until there are only two candidates left, with the winner based on the number of votes cast.
What are its advantages?
Those who support ranked choice voting claim that it gives people the freedom to cast their ballots in favor of the candidate they like the best without worrying about their chances of winning.
You could place Lander first and Mamdani second if you like Mamdani and think he has the best chance of winning, for example.
People can choose to support the candidate they most strongly with the exception of when the other candidates you ranked lose out on the race’s outcome.
Some argue that a candidate’s ranked choice makes it difficult to win if they don’t have a lot of broad support, since candidates gain if they perform well with both their own core supporters and those of several other candidates as well.
In the SoHo neighborhood of New York City on June 14, 2023, absentee ballots are positioned inside a sealed ballot box.
What are its shortcomings?
The complexity of the system is one of its drawbacks. Even those who have previously cast ballots using ranked choice voting can be confused about the implications of their rankings, despite the obvious simplicity of the idea of choosing a group of candidates based on preference.
Some people also think that the voting process is less transparent because a computer is assigned the task of tabulating and redistributing votes in each round, making it harder for traditional news organizations to follow developments.
