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The U.S. government, which announced on July 1 that it had declined to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA) in its current form, is seeking stronger automotive sector rules of origin (ROOs) in the North American free trade pact. In a report submitted to U.S. Congress this month, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated that his office, the USTR, “intends to examine carefully the USMCA’s automotive rules of origin to identify areas where stronger rules can directly benefit U.S. manufacturers and workers.” According to the USTR, the United States’ trade deficit in autos and parts with Mexico reached US $138.2 billion…

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Bleecker Street’s Crosswalk and Universal Pictures Content Group to release film that will be accompanied by new Mary McCartney-directed short Finding Faith George Michael: The Faith Tour, the unreleased concert film capturing the singer’s 1988 concerts in Paris on his first solo tour, has found distributors ahead of its theatrical release later this year. Bleecker Street’s Crosswalk will release the film in North America — including a run of early access IMAX screenings — with Universal Pictures Content Group handling worldwide distribution. The film, directed by longtime Michael collaborators Andy Morahan and David Austin, features unseen footage from Michael’s two…

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A joint police task force is ramping up efforts to solve the oldest missing teens case in America – Brooklyn’s 15-year-old Bonnie Bickwit and her boyfriend Mitchel Weiser, 16, who vanished 53 years ago this week on their way to a historic rock concert in upstate New York. The task force, created as a result of a Rolling Stone investigation and led by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office and the New York State Police, recently conducted an excavation at an abandoned power company site in upstate Steuben County searching for remains of the teens. Investigators are also pursuing a new…

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The key point here is whether the transfers can be defined as a ‘swap deal’.One of the clauses in Uefa’s transfer regulations defining “player exchange transactions” says that multiple deals between two clubs going in both directions completed within a 45-day period will be considered a swap.If two clubs transfer players in the same window after the 45 days have elapsed they could still be considered as swaps if there is anything in the contracts to connect them.Indeed Tottenham and Brighton moved centre-backs Jan Paul van Hecke and Luka Vuskovic between them in separate deals earlier this summer, though both…

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All stories in El Jalapeño are satire and not real news. This one was sent in by a reader. In an unprecedented public advisory released Tuesday, Mexico’s Health Ministry condemned what it called “a reckless, sugar-fueled epidemic sweeping backyards, gardens and hanging feeders nationwide.” In other words, the hummingbird’s diet. This diet, officials said, places the birds at risk for what authors describe as “a lifetime of poor nutritional choices.” When informed that hummingbirds have evolved over 42 million years to metabolize nectar at extraordinary rates, Dr. Elena Paloma, chair of the advisory panel, responded, “That’s exactly the kind of…

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The 83rd Venice International Film Festival is unveiling its official lineup today. Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, president of the Biennale di Venezia, will confirm the films running in competition and main sidebar sections. You can follow their presentation, starting from 11 am local time at La Biennale Library of the Historical Archive in Venice, on the festival site or on its social media channels on YouTube, X, TikTok, and Facebook. Venice, alongside Cannes, is considered the world’s most prestigious film festival and a major awards season prognosticator. Buttafuoco, who has usually avoided making political statements in…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The oil price has risen above $98 a barrel for the first time since early June after Iran-backed Houthi militants said they had attacked two Saudi Arabian tankers in the Red Sea. In a statement on its Al-Masirah television channel on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Yemeni group said it used missiles and drones to target the ships Encelia and Layla, accusing them of violating its embargo of the Red Sea. The Houthis warned this week that they were imposing a maritime…

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