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Poland will buy advanced Patriot missile defence systems worth up to $15 billion in a deal announced Wednesday by the Pentagon. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the sale would involve up to 48 Patriot PAC-3 launchers and up to 644 Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles, along with radars and control components for the systems. The agency said the State Department, which has authority over US arms export deals, had approved the sale, which will provide Warsaw with… Read the full article here

The Senate Majority Whip in the ninth Senate, Orji Kalu, has said that the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, won the contest in a free, fair and credible manner. The former Governor of Abia State was reacting to media reports that some unnamed 22 Senators of the All Progressives Congress were planning to leave the party for another opposition party because of the outcome of the Senate election. Kalu, who spoke on a recorded video through his verified… Read the full article here

James Maddison, on Wednesday, signed a five-year contract worth £40m with North London side, Tottenham Hotspur. The 26-year-old midfielder joins from relegated side, Leicester City to sign a deal that will run till 2028. Having been faced with a promotion battle back to the English Premier League next season, Leicester City had no choice but to cash in on their key midfielder whose contract will run down in just a year. The elegant English midfielder has been… Read the full article here

Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy resolved their differences at the US Open and are now friends again, the 2017 Masters champion has revealed.McIlroy had been vocal in his opposition to the breakaway LIV Golf, hitting out at players – including Garcia – who had joined the organisation.Earlier this month, the PGA Tour and DP World Tour agreed a shock merger with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is behind LIV Golf.U.S. OpenMcIlroy ‘would go through 100 Sundays like this’ to… Read the full article here

Ryan: Yes, I do.Microsoft: So you do believe it’s in Microsoft’s best interests to make Activision games available on multiple platforms?Ryan: No, I don’t agree with that.Microsoft: So if you were running Xbox, would you recommend making Call of Duty and other Activision games exclusive to Xbox and PC?Ryan: That’s a hypothetical question that I don’t wish to answer.Microsoft: So you don’t get to answer?Ryan: I don’t have enough knowledge to answer that question. Read the full article here

Receive free War in Ukraine updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. Vladimir Putin has moved to shake up Russia’s security services in the wake of the Wagner group’s failed insurrection, rewarding loyalists with promotions and freezing out figures sympathetic to the paramilitary organisation’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.Sergei Surovikin, a senior Russian general known to have a good relationship with Prigozhin, has… Read the full article here

Web3 lending platform Maple Finance has announced the launch of a direct lending program, according to a June 28 fact sheet from the platform’s development team. The program is intended to replace services previously provided by Celsius, BlockFi and other now-bankrupt lenders.The first lending pool will be available sometime in July, the company stated.Introducing Maple Direct, the new lending arm of Maple Finance.With the formation of Maple Direct, Web3 now has a specialist digital native… Read the full article here

Finding The One! Below Deck Mediterranean‘s Captain Sandy Yawn has been open about her love story with girlfriend Leah Shafer. The couple met in 2018 when the gospel singer reached out to the reality star on social media about her hit Bravo series. “She sent me a nice message that said, ‘I came across your show, congratulations, many blessings,’” the captain recalled in an interview with The Cheat Sheet in 2019, noting that the term “many blessings”… Read the full article here

Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said that releasing the IPOB leader would not be an “act of mercy”, but an obedience to various court orders which freed him. Mr Ejimakor said this in a statement on Tuesday. Background Mr Kanu has been detained at the facility of the State Security Service (SSS) since he was rearrested in Kenya and brought back to Nigeria in June 2021, after initially fleeing the… Read the full article here

Bill Gates Bill Gates’ visit to Nigeria this week is both important and significant. His visit precedes that of Malala Yousafzai and other global figures scheduled to be in the country next month. Bill is therefore the first global development leader to visit Nigeria under the new leadership of President Tinubu’s administration. Bill Gates’ commitment to Nigeria’s development is long-standing and personal. On this many visits to Nigeria, he is one of the few global leaders… Read the full article here