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The best government bond market may be outside the United States.Allspring Global Investments’ George Bory is pushing clients toward countries whose central banks are raising interest rates or have different inflation dynamics.”Bond markets everywhere have rushed to price inflation. Places like the UK, certainly across Europe, even places like Australia — we’ve seen a material run-up in central bank tightening expectations,” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “Now, some of that’s been delivered on already. The ECB raised rates just a few weeks ago. The expectation is they will do a bit more. But unless the Fed is going…

The former Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said he is “optimistic” about the prospect of Andy Burnham becoming the next prime minister.Miliband told a think tank event in London on Friday that Burnham, who is widely expected to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister, has “this openness and energy that I think is very attractive and positive”.He said the expected appointment of the former Labour cabinet minister James Purnell as Burnham’s Downing Street chief of staff was “fantastic”.”I haven’t lost my youthful optimism,” Miliband told an event organised by the Center for Global Development think tank.”Andy…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Enugu Command, says it has seized 929.463 kilogrammes of various illicit substances and secured the conviction of 53 drug-related dealers in Enugu State. The various illicit drugs, including Cannabis Sativa and methamphetamine, popularly known as Crystal Meth or “Mkpuru Mmiri,” were seized between November 2025 and June 2026. The Commander of the NDLEA in Enugu State, Owoputi Adekunle, disclosed this on Friday during the commemoration of the 2026 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Enugu. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the event was held in collaboration with the…

By Jacob Ajom What happened to the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria? It hurts to note that Nigeria’s legacy in age group football competitions has become a distant history. The Golden Eaglets, with five FIFA World Cup titles and three runners up medals are the most successful international team in the world in that category. They have also won U17 AFCON twice. In the U20 class, the Flying Eagles used to be one of the best out of Africa with two silver medals from the FIFA U20 World Cup. In 1996, Nigeria shook the world when the Dream Team(as the U23…

Luca Guadagnino says it wasn’t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman movie Artificial shortly after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. “I can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” Guadagnino told Italian television, “[but] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.” Speaking to news show Otto e mezzo on Italian network La7, Guadagnino cited an incident from 2003 when CBS canceled the broadcast of The Regans, a miniseries about President Ronald Regan and his family, starring Josh Brolin and Judy Davis, following a conservative backlash. (The series eventually…

BakeriesIt has to be Københavns Bageri; they upgrade beloved Danish classics using the best ingredients. The cardamom buns are second to none, but the “potato cake” – that’s a choux bun filled with vanilla custard and topped with a cocoa-dusted marzipan disc to resemble a potato – might be my favourite. MF For bread, go to Tír Bakery in the morning and stand in line – they sell out every day, but their bread is the best. For croissants, go to Bageriet B and sit outside and enjoy a good filter coffee. THTempting pastries at Juno the Bakery. Photograph: Juno…

Cape Verde national football team coach, Bubister said his team will approach their 2026 FIFA World Cup knock-out game against defending Champions Argentina with the right attitude. Cape Verde qualified for the knock-out stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in their debut appearance after playing a goalless draw against Saudi Arabia on Friday, becoming the smallest nation to ever reach the World Cup knock-out. The West African team finished second in Group H with three points, coming out undefeated in a group that had Spain and Uruguay. The team has been drawn against holders Spain in the round of…

This is the moment rescuers pulled a newborn baby from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building, after two deadly earthquakes hit Venezuela.Videos shared on social media show rescuers in the city of La Guaira moving the baby away from the rubble and handing it over to a man, who appears to be the father. The mother was also pulled alive from the rubble a while later, AFP reports. Rescue efforts are continuing in the country, after back-to-back quakes struck the country, killing at least 920 people and injuring more than 3,360.More on this story.

By Obas Esiedesa The Federal Government has expressed confidence that Nigeria will achieve a perfect score in the 2026 validation of the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), with the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Musa Sarkin Adar, declaring the country fully prepared for the exercise. “We are ready for them. Nigerians are very resilient people and very brilliant people. We are not afraid of their coming, and I assure you this time around, we must get that 100 per cent, and we will get it,” Adar said during an engagement with civil society organisations and…

Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, on Tuesday, and were found about half a kilometre off the track. It was the first time the FRNSW drone’s AI detection system had been used to rescue missing people