Manchester City have confirmed the signing of AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders for an initial fee of £46.5m on a five-year contract.
The Netherlands international is Pep Guardiola’s fourth summer signing with Rayan Ait-Nouri, Marcus Bettinelli and Rayan Cherki having also joined.
Reijnders, 26, was signed in time to be eligible for this month’s Club World Cup in America and could make his debut on 18 June against Wydad FC.
“I am ecstatic to be signing for Manchester City,” Reijnders said. “City are one of the biggest teams in the world, with the best coach, world-class players and outstanding facilities.
“Under Pep Guardiola, City have won so many titles and I want to help keep that going with a lot more success in the coming years.”
The midfielder has been capped 22 times by the Netherlands but was left on the bench during Tuesday night’s 8-0 thrashing of Malta.
He scored 15 goals in 54 matches across all competitions for Milan last term and was named Serie A’s midfielder of the season.
City boost squad for Club World Cup
A question being asked in the lead up to the Club World Cup was how seriously teams would be taking the expanded competition.
Manchester City have emphatically answered that question by moving quickly to bolster a wounded squad that will now hope to go far in the competition in the United States.
With De Bruyne departing and a hole left in attacking midfield, City were eyeing up Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz but decided not to pursue a deal.
Instead, they have boosted the side with the signings of midfielder Reijnders and Cherki and left-back Ait-Nouri for a total of around £108m, which is less than the reported 150m Euros (£127m) asking price for the Germany international.
‘He will love working with Guardiola’
Reijnders joins City in a period which feels like a revolution rather than a renewal, and one that may require a revolving door at the Etihad over the next few months.
Attacking midfielder Cherki has already joined, while midfielders Kalvin Phillips, James McAtee and Jack Grealish have all been tipped to leave the club, along with defender Kyle Walker who spent the latter part of last season out on loan.
The squad also includes Ederson, Stefan Ortega, Nathan Ake and John Stones, whose futures have also been the topic of much media speculation.
Finding the right time to replace ageing stars like Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva and the injured Mateo Kovacic in City’s midfield will also surely be in Guardiola’s thinking.
Despite the £50m acquisition of Nico Gonzalez in February, the lack of running power and physicality in City’s engine room was exposed last season as they failed to win a major trophy for the first time in eight years.
Reijnders, who turns 27 in July, is viewed as the man to help alter that dynamic.
A powerful box-to-box midfielder, Reijnders ended last season with 10 goals and four assists in Serie A, with only one player in his position, Napoli’s Scott McTominay (16), having more goal involvements.
His performances were also considered one of the few positives in a disappointing season for Milan, who finished eighth in Serie A and missed out on European qualification.
Reijnders was ranked ninth for forward passes in Italy’s top flight last term and was fifth for through balls and carrying the ball.
“He will slot in very well at City, he runs a lot, he’s very willing to improve and he will love working with Guardiola,” said Italian football journalist Daniele Verri.
This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin.
Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, C3S said.
The latest data comes amid mixed momentum on climate action globally, with China and the EU reducing emissions as the Trump administration and technology companies increase their use of fossil fuels.
“Temperatures were most above average over western Antarctica, a large area of the Middle East and western Asia, northeastern Russia, and northern Canada,” the C3S bulletin added.
At 1.4C above pre-industrial levels, May was also the first month globally not to go over 1.5C (2.7F) in warming in 22 months.
“May 2025 breaks an unprecedentedly long sequence of months over 1.5C above pre-industrial,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of C3S.
“Whilst this may offer a brief respite for the planet, we do expect the 1.5C threshold to be exceeded again in the near future due to the continued warming of the climate system,” Buontempo said.
The city of Lyon was covered in heavy smoke from intense wildfires in Canada, which reached France on Tuesday, according to Meteo France [Jeff Pachoud/AFP]
The increased temperatures were particularly felt in Pakistan’s Jacobabad city in Sindh province, where residents grappled with extreme temperatures in the high 40s, which sometimes reached 50C (122 F).
The soaring temperatures followed another heatwave last June that killed more than 560 people in southern Pakistan.
“While a heatwave that is around 20C might not sound like an extreme event from the experience of most people around the world, it is a really big deal for this part of the world,” Friederike Otto, associate professor in climate science at Imperial College London, told reporters.
“It affects the whole world massively,” Otto added. “Without climate change, this would have been impossible.”
In a separate report released on Wednesday, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) research collaboration said Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland.
Mixed momentum on climate action
The latest data comes amid mixed progress on climate change action.
United States President Donald Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill” during his presidency, even as his country faces increasingly severe weather events, like the fires that tore through California’s capital, Los Angeles, late last year. Emissions from technology companies are also surging, as expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres drives up global electricity demand, according to a recent report from the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
New analysis by the climate reporting site Carbon Brief found that China’s emissions may have peaked, as the country increased electricity supplies from new wind, solar, and nuclear capacity and reduced its reliance on coal and other fossil fuels.
“China’s emissions were down 1.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1 percent in the latest 12 months,” Carbon Brief reported last month.
“If this pattern is sustained, then it would herald a peak and sustained decline in China’s power-sector emissions,” it added.
The EU also announced last week that its 27 member states are well on track to meet their goal of a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
“Emissions are down 37 percent since 1990, while the economy has grown nearly 70 percent — proving climate action and growth go hand in hand,” said Wopke Hoekstra, the EU’s commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump following their spectacular public falling-out.
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X early on Wednesday.
“They went too far.”
Musk, who departed from his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency last month, did not specify which criticisms in particular he regretted.
Musk’s expression of regret comes after he made a series of extraordinary attacks on Trump, including an unsubstantiated claim that his administration has refused to release files on Jeffrey Epstein to conceal the president’s involvement with the late financier and convicted sex offender.
After serving as one of Trump’s most powerful backers during his reelection campaign and the initial phase of his presidency, Musk publicly broke with the president last week over his “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, branding the package of sweeping tax cuts and spending increases a “disgusting abomination”.
Musk went on to post a flurry of criticisms of Trump and the Republican Party’s spending plans, sparking a public war of words between two of the world’s most powerful men.
Musk, who spent hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump’s run for the White House, also claimed that the president would not have been elected without him and expressed support for his impeachment.
In his sharpest attack, Musk claimed that Trump was “in” the so-called Epstein files and that was the “real reason” they had not been made public.
The White House described the claim as an “unfortunate episode”.
Amid the back and forth between the two men, Trump said the “easiest way” to cut spending would be to cancel the contracts and subsidies awarded to Musk’s companies, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX.
In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, Trump said he assumed his relationship with Musk was over and that he had no interest in mending ties.
“I have no intention of speaking to him,” Trump said.
Trump also warned that Musk would “pay very serious consequences” if he followed calls to fund primary challenges against Republicans who voted for his signature bill, which is pending in the US Congress.
On Monday, Trump appeared to have softened on his former ally, telling reporters they had had a “great relationship” and he wished him well.
Before his expression of regret, Musk had made moves apparently aimed at dialing down tensions between the two men.
The South African-born entrepreneur deleted a number of X posts attacking Trump – including his claim about links to Epstein – and shared several of the president’s social media posts defending his immigration crackdown and condemning unrest in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California — On a warm Tuesday afternoon in East Hollywood, Payo grilled up heaping plates of chicken, carne asada, potatoes and ribs at the food stall where he works.
He moved here three years ago from the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. He has a one-year-old daughter in the United States.
But in the country that he now calls “home”, even doing his job now feels dangerous.
For millions of undocumented migrants in the US, fear and uncertainty about the future are fixtures of life. Yet with the administration of US President Donald Trump launching a series of aggressive immigration raids and calling in the National Guard and more than 700 US Marines to crack down on protests that have followed, the last several days have felt different to Payo and residents of neighbourhoods in Los Angeles with large immigrant communities.
“I feel tense. It’s a bit of a risk even being out here on the street,” says Payo, who requested that only his first name be used.
Still, he feels he has little choice but to continue his work, to support his daughter, as well as family back in Mexico.
“I’ve never felt like this before during my time here,” he says. “When you leave your house, you don’t know if you’ll return home.”
A man working at a food stall in the East Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, on June 10, 2025 [Brian Osgood/Al Jazeera]
Chilling effect
East Hollywood is located several miles from downtown Los Angeles, which has been the site of large demonstrations and protests, some of which have turned violent and included clashes with law enforcement, since last Friday. Local officials have accused Trump of seeking to escalate the situation rather than helping restore calm.
Residents of the neighbourhood say that the streets have been quiet, with fewer people venturing outside amid heightened fears over immigration raids and arrests.
“People aren’t going out as much. They’re not going to work because they’re afraid,” said Jose Medina, who works as a cleaner at a hospital and first came to Los Angeles from El Salvador about 45 years ago.
He says the city’s status as a metropolis with a large Latino community is part of what drew him there. According to a 2023 census survey, Spanish is spoken in nearly 40 percent of Los Angeles households, and the city’s ties to Latin America are as old as the United States itself.
“It’s a beautiful city, a city of working people,” says Medina, noting that immigrant workers often take on demanding jobs such as construction, landscaping and cleaning services.
Immigration raids across Los Angeles and the state over the last several days have frequently targeted workplaces, adding to the feeling of anxiety in immigrant communities. So, too, has the aggressive nature of the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.
“What you see in the news and in the statements is that they’re going after the most violent criminals, but we know that’s a lie and that’s not what’s happening. We’re seeing agents coming into a Home Depot and picking up everyone, not even investigating,” said Jose Madera, director of the Pasadena Community Job Center, which offers support for day labourers.
“With day labour, if you miss one day of work, that’s the rent, or that’s food on the table for your children and your family,” he added, of the economic cost of staying home from work due to fear over immigration raids. “That’s the decision that every day labourer and every migrant person has to make.”
He also said that the due process rights of those detained and deported also seem to have been ignored.
The parents of a 23-year-old man deported to Mexico after being arrested on Friday told The Washington Post newspaper that he signed what he believed was a form consenting to a COVID-19 test, but may have been a document agreeing to his deportation.
Sensitive locations that have traditionally been exempted from immigration enforcement activities, such as courthouses, have also been subjected to raids. Los Angeles school district officials said on Monday that school security will set up safety perimeters around schools so that families can feel secure as they attend student graduations.
Marlene Marin, the owner of a hair salon in East Hollywood who has lived in the city for 35 years and is originally from the Peruvian capital of Lima, said that the last several days have reminded her of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people stayed in and the streets were largely empty.
“People have a lot of anxiety. We don’t have many clients coming in,” she said. “There is an economic impact when people don’t want to go out to the stores and the shops.”
Marlene Marin sits in her hair salon in Los Angeles, California, on June 10, 2025 [Brian Osgood/Al Jazeera]
History of dissent
On Tuesday evening, Mayor Karen Bass declared a curfew in the downtown area of Los Angeles in what she said was an effort to halt vandalism and looting.
“There are some bad people burning police cars,” said Marin. “But I don’t think the people doing that are immigrants.”
In a speech on Tuesday, Trump leaned into incendiary rhetoric, promising to “liberate” the city from “animals” and “a foreign enemy”. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency largely tasked with immigration raids, shared a picture on social media showing immigration agents flanked by heavily armed soldiers detaining a man.
But contrary to Trump’s narrative, studies have repeatedly shown that migrants are less likely to commit crimes than those who are born in the US. “People are here looking for something better, to support their families,” says Payo, standing under a tent that shields him from the afternoon sun as smoke pours off the grill in East Hollywood.
Throughout Los Angeles’s history, a tradition of robust dissent and immigrant activism has frequently brought local figures and movements into confrontation with federal authorities.
During the 1980s, the city became a key part of the country’s sanctuary movement, which offered support for refugees fleeing violence in countries like El Salvador and Guatemala, where military governments, with the backing of the United States, were carrying out campaigns of brutal violence.
When a Roman Catholic priest named Father Luis Olivares offered refugees and undocumented workers physical sanctuary inside the La Placita church near the city’s historic centre, immigration officials threatened to raid the church if Olivares continued to defy the federal government. Eventually, the government didn’t follow through on the threat.
But Mario Garcia, a professor of Chicano studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara who wrote a biography on the life of Olivares, says that the Trump administration has pushed an aggressive interpretation of executive power with few comparisons in modern US history.
A sign informing migrants of their rights if they are confronted by immigration enforcement agents inside a building in Los Angeles, California, on June 10, 2025 [Brian Osgood/Al Jazeera]
“[Ronald] Reagan’s policies in the 1980s on immigration did not include the militarisation of INS [the Immigration and Naturalization Service], the predecessor of ICE. It did not include using the National Guard and the Marines to put down protests in support of the undocumented and Central American refugees,” he said in an email to Al Jazeera.
Garcia believes that Trump isn’t done yet and that his recent moves may be laying the groundwork for something even more dramatic: the declaration of martial law.
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has cancelled a waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate hours after five Western governments announced he faced sanctions, along with fellow ultra-nationalist Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for inciting violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Warnings have previously been raised that Israel’s ending of the waiver could have devastating consequences for the Palestinian economy, which is dependent on the Israeli banking system as the Palestinian Authority (PA) does not have its own central bank or currency.
“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has instructed Accountant General CPA Yali Rothenberg to cancel the indemnity provided to correspondent banks dealing with banks operating in Palestinian Authority territories,” Smotrich’s office said in a statement on Tuesday, announcing the changes.
The statement also directly linked Smotrich’s decision to the PA’s international advocacy against the establishment of illegal settlements in the occupied territories, which the minister’s office described as the “delegitimisation campaign against the State of Israel internationally”.
Smotrich’s decision to end the waiver came hours after Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom announced sanctions against him, as well as against Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for their “incitement of violence” against Palestinians.
The sanctions were not publicly linked to Smotrich’s targeting of the PA, which governs parts of the occupied West Bank and represents Palestine at international forums, including the United Nations and the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
However, Smotrich has a history of blaming the PA and punishing the 2.7 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for international condemnation of Israel’s illegal occupation.
“For every country that unilaterally recognises a Palestinian state, we will establish a settlement,” Smotrich said in July 2024, as he announced that Israel was “recognising” five illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank after five more countries – Norway, Spain, Ireland, Armenia and Slovenia – announced they were recognising Palestinian statehood.
He has also called for Israel to annex the occupied West Bank if the ICJ ruled that Israeli settlements are illegal.
‘A humanitarian crisis’
The end of the waiver could have a devastating impact on the finances of Palestinians, particularly in the occupied West Bank, which has already suffered multiple economic blows over the past two years.
The overwhelming majority of exchanges in the West Bank and Gaza are in shekels, Israel’s national currency, because Palestine is not allowed to have its own central bank or print its own currency, which means that Palestinian banks are reliant on Israeli banks to operate.
But Israeli banks only continue to work with the Palestinian banks because of the government waiver, which protects them from potential legal action relating to transactions with their Palestinian counterparts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has repeatedly threatened to end the waiver in the past, prompting rebukes from even Israel’s closest allies.
Janet Yellen, the United States Treasury Secretary in former President Joe Biden’s administration, warned in May last year that “to cut Palestinian banks from Israeli counterparts would create a humanitarian crisis”.
In July, G7 countries urged Israel to “take necessary action” to ensure the continuity of Palestinian financial systems.
The UN has also warned that “unilaterally cutting off Palestinian banks from the global banking system would be a violation of the fundamental principles of international law”.
Under this pressure, the Israeli government has agreed to extend the waiver for short periods. However, far-right ministers like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have always objected.
After one vote in November last year, Ben-Gvir, who has been convicted in Israeli courts of possessing a “terror” organisation’s propaganda material and supporting a “terror” organisation, wrote in a post on X that he had a “principled objection” to indemnifying the Israeli banks.
Actress Dakota Johnson has revealed her dream about The 1975’s Matty Healy, which saw the singer morphing into a vegetable to dodge the police, with Chris Martin’s reaction
Dakota Johnson shares Chris Martin’s reaction to her ‘murderous’ dream about Matty Healy(Image: WireImage)
Newly single Dakota Johnson has revealed her ex Chris Martin’s brilliant reaction to her wacky dream about singer Matty Healy. The Fifty Shades of Grey actress, 35, and the Coldplay frontman, 48, recently ended their romantic relationship after eight years together.
Chatting with comedian Amy Poehler, Dakota recalled having a bizarre dream about The 1975 hitmaker. “I actually had a dream the other night,” Dakota told host Amy during the latest episode of the Good Hang podcast. “Matty Healy from The 1975 was in my dream and he was murdering people, and he was Matty Healy as himself.”
Dakota, who recently enjoyed a dinner date with Matty’s ex Taylor Swift, then went on to note how the dream got even stranger, with her dream version of Matty morphing into a vegetable to dodge the police. “When the people were looking for him—they were cops maybe,” Dakota continued, “he would turn into a piece of asparagus.”
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If that wasn’t weird enough, an Oscar-winning actress then entered the dream. “I saw these two poles and a bed and I was like, ‘Matty?'” Dakota said. “The sheets came down and it was him as an asparagus and Angelina Jolie as an asparagus. They were getting married, and they left in a helicopter together as asparagus.”
The next morning, Dakota shared her wild dream with her then-boyfriend Chris. The Fix You songwriter was fascinated by Dakota’s subconscious, telling her: “That’s a really good pitch for a movie.”
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Dakota and Chris reportedly split over his reluctance to set a wedding date. . Insiders allege that the frustration stemming from this hesitancy contributed to the end of their eight-year relationship, with 35 year old Dakota particularly “sick” that no date had been decided.
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The two became engaged years after their on-off romance took off in 2017, following the dad-of-two’s split from his ex-wife, Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow. A source told Page Six: “She was sick of him dragging his feet on setting a date for the wedding.”
Others in Dakota and Chris’ inner circle reckon disagreements on starting a family played a role too. Another insider claimed: “They broke up over Chris Martin not wanting to have more kids.”
While Dakota, unlike her former beau, has never tied the knot or had children, she has hinted at her desire for both. A confidant shared with The Sun, “They really tried to work through their issues but the age gap was often a problem. She’d [also] expressed that she may want children in the future, whereas Chris is kind of done with that part of his life.”
Following the news of the couple’s split, an insider disclosed: “They just haven’t been able to figure out to make it official. Dakota held a flame for them to be together because she loved him so much and loved his kids so much.
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“Breakups aren’t instant and they continued to breakup and makeup and sometimes things would work when they were away from each other, while they were working because absence makes the heart grow fonder, but then they’d get back together and little things just kept adding up to where they weren’t right for each other anymore…
“Dakota is devastated that she isn’t going to be around his kids as much anymore, but wants them to know that she is always there for them.”