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However, the city aims to widen its appeal by building a giant “matrix” of theme parks in the area surrounding the 9-year-old Shanghai Disney Resort, which stretches over 3.9 sq km in Shanghai’s eastern suburbs. The huge new complex, Shanghai International Resort, will also encompass the Legoland Shanghai Resort which is due to open in mid-2025 and the world’s largest standalone Peppa Pig outdoor theme park, which will launch in 2027. Though the venues are largely aimed at domestic tourists, they may also attract foreign visitors if they can combine visits to entertainment parks with sightseeing trips to older sites, travel specialists…

The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter that U.S. lawmakers plan to send to Secretary of State Rubio on Wednesday.The work on the abducted children by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab was frozen when President Trump signed an executive order in late January halting almost all foreign aid spending. Since then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and an official under him, Pete Marocco, have ended the vast majority…

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A-League footballer Josh Cavallo says he still receives daily death threats more than three years after publicly revealing he was gay.Cavallo was professional men’s football’s first openly gay player after coming out in 2021.And while the 25-year-old Adelaide United squad member said it was the “best decision” he ever made to come out, it has come with “sad” consequences.“There’s multiple, multiple, multiple death threats that come my way daily still, and it’s quite sad to see,” Cavallo told FIFPRO’s Footballers Unfiltered podcast.“In the world of football, being an openly gay player is a very toxic place. It’s something that not…

The promise of a “final” release of all government secrets relating to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has whetted the appetite of many Americans, including the current occupant of the Oval Office.But many historians are taking a more measured, wait-and-see approach to Tuesday’s release of documents by the National Archives.“I doubt that these releases are going to overturn our understanding of what happened on that terrible day in Dallas,” Fredrik Logevall, a historian at Harvard who is working on a multivolume biography of President Kennedy, said before the release.But still, he added, “we should prepare to be surprised.”It…

Almost everyone has hung onto a library book a little bit too long, but how many of us can measure that infraction in decades? Robert Murray can, after holding on to a beloved but borrowed copy of a book on woodcraft from the UBC library for 64 years.The book in question? A 1931 edition of Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness, originally authored in 1906. 1:03 Winnipeg woman returns overdue library book after 30 years: ‘I needed to do the walk of shame’ “I picked this book up just by happenstance when I…

A federal district judge in Maryland has found that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appear to have breached the United States Constitution through their efforts to dismantle an agency dedicated to distributing foreign aid. Judge Theodore Chuang issued the preliminary ruling on Tuesday, in response to a complaint filed by 26 employees and contractors for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). “The Court finds that Defendants’ actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID Officer, likely…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as senior advisers for IRS reform, and Shapley was named deputy director of criminal investigations at the agency. The promotions stand in stark contrast to President Trump’s decision on Monday to revoke Secret Service protections for Hunter Biden, despite an executive order signed by his father, former President…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Semiconductor materials group JX Advanced Metals rose on its first day of trading — in a test of investor appetite for chip-related stocks — after raising $3bn in Japan’s biggest IPO in almost seven years.Shares traded up 2.8 per cent at ¥843 ($5.64) on their first day, edging above the ¥820 at which the initial public offering was priced, as investors bought up the stock exposed to artificial intelligence and computing trends despite its peers taking a bruising in recent weeks. The…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Citigroup has cut bonuses for 250 top employees under a programme that tied their pay to a turnaround effort aimed at boosting shareholder returns and fixing compliance shortcomings at the US bank. Citi’s so-called transformation bonus programme was put in place three years ago to incentivise senior staff to boost the group’s financial performance and improve its risk and control systems following an order by regulators to take action after a high-profile blunder in which it accidentally wired $900mn to a group…