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The British government postponed plans for the controlled return of fans into sports stadiums as part of new restrictions announced on Tuesday to tackle a second wave of COVID-19. The government had been planning to allow 25-33% capacities from Oct. 1, giving sports a funding boost after months of empty stadiums. “We have to acknowledge that the spread of the virus is now affecting our ability to reopen business conferences, exhibitions and large sporting events,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson told parliament. “So we will not be able to do this from the first of October. “I recognise the implications for…

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Tuesday proposed stopping insurers from charging existing car and home insurance customers more than new ones in the latest crackdown on an industry grappling with costly COVID-19 claims. One week after the FCA successfully brought a test case against eight insurers over their denial of business interruption claims, it said customers who renewed home or motor insurance policies should pay no more than new clients using the same sales channel. “The FCA estimates that its proposals will save consumers 3.7 billion pounds ($4.74 billion) over 10 years,” FCA interim chief executive Christopher Woolard said.…

German’s Angela Merkel embarks this week on her third bold attempt to reshape European migration, but she faces an uphill task convincing other EU leaders to host refugees, even if her plan contains generous incentives. Having taken in a million refugees in 2015 and struck a deal with Turkey to cut Mediterranean arrivals a year later, Merkel is the driving force behind a new European Union migration pact to be unveiled on Wednesday. It seeks to share the task of accepting the hundreds and sometimes thousands of refugees arriving by boat every week – an idea that one EU official…

Democrats are thinking about taking extreme measures to block President Trump or undo his plans to nominate a new Supreme Court justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president announced on Saturday that he will nominate a woman in the next week to succeed the late justice. But Democrats say they not only want to prevent the nomination, they’re open to impeaching Trump after the election and then packing the court with new justices if they’re able to take over the White House. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his desire to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members to…

The Abu Dhabi Film Commission, the Israel Film Fund and the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film and Television School have signed a cooperation agreement for training and production, a joint statement said on Monday. The agreement includes plans for an annual regional film festival rotating between Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and Israel. The move comes after the countries agreed to establish bilateral diplomatic and trade ties, which officials have said will create significant economic opportunities. The two sides will develop training programs for film-makers from the two countries over a period of several months, which could…

Shares in HSBC HSBA.L and Standard Chartered STAN.L fell on Monday to their lowest since 1998 after media reports that they and other banks, including Barclays BARC.L and Deutsche Bank, moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over nearly two decades despite red flags about the origins of the money. The BuzzFeed and other media articles were based on leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen). HSBC shares in London HSBA.L fell as much as 3.6% to their lowest since the Asian currency crisis of 1998. The stock has now nearly halved…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday endorsed Donald Trump’s reelection bid for the U.S. presidency, saying his rival Democrats have forced a “moral imperialism” on the world that illiberal leaders like himself reject. “We root for Donald Trump’s victory, because we know well American Democratic governments’ diplomacy, built on moral imperialism. We have been forced to sample it before, we did not like it, we do not want seconds,” Orban wrote in an essay. Nationalist Orban faces a steep challenge to his decade-long rule in parliamentary elections due in early 2022 as Hungary braces for the economic and social…

Manchester United defender Luke Shaw has said the Premier League club must bring in reinforcements after they opened their Premier League campaign with a 3-1 defeat by Crystal Palace on Saturday. United have made just one signing in the close season with Dutch midfielder Donny van de Beek arriving from Ajax. “We have a very good group but, personally, I think we need more players to strengthen the squad,” Shaw told TV2. “When you look around at how other teams are strengthening their teams, then we must also do it to keep up with the others.” The 25-year-old full back…

Some 70 migrants jumped overboard from the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms on Thursday, in an attempt to swim to the nearby southern Italian city of Palermo. Those who jumped into the sea, part of a group of more than 270 people, were picked up by Italian coastguard and police ships. The charity vessel carried out three separate rescue operations in the central Mediterranean between Sept. 8 and 10. The crew are still waiting for instructions on where the migrants will be allowed to disembark. The Italian coastguard have transferred two pregnant women and one of their husbands onto land…

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu is set to face a vote of no-confidence from the club’s members after a campaign group seeking to oust him gathered the necessary number of signatures on Thursday to force the vote. “Mes que una mocio” (More than a motion), a group of members supported by candidates for next year’s presidential election, said they had gathered 20,731 votes by Thursday’s deadline. Barcelona announced later on Thursday that 20,687 signatures backing a vote of no confidence have been counted — comfortably clearing the required 16,520 to trigger the vote. “Member Jordi Farre, promoter of the vote…