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At 21, the midfielder has finally been presented with an opportunity to add some substance to the excitement that has been building around his name. The midfielder has tasted success at youth level, winning two FA Youth Cups, the Under-21 Premier League and the UEFA Youth League, while starring for England up to Under-21 level. Ozil: I want to stay at Arsenal It was at the 2016 Toulon Tournament where Loftus-Cheek excelled, so much so he secured the Player of the Tournament prize and was said to be on the shortlist for several Premier League clubs ahead of the 2016-17 campaign....

New boss Maurizio Sarri has steered the Blues to four consecutive league victories since taking the reins and he will be demanding his players to pick up where they left off. Wins over Huddersfield Town, Arsenal, Newcastle United and Bournemouth put Chelsea alongside Liverpool and Watford as the only teams to boast a 100 per cent record at this point. Recently promoted Cardiff, meanwhile, have not yet managed to put a win on the board and they come into the game with just two points from a potential 12....

The Blues have lost out to Manchester City in Premier League and FA Cup action in the last 10 days and a home win over Bournemouth has been their one post World Cup highlight in 2023. However, visitors Palace head across the capital in similarly poor form, with Patrick Vieira’s side dumped out of the FA Cup by Southampton last weekend. Here’s all the key information on the match including kickoff time, live streaming and TV channels, lineups and betting odds....

(Our MLS Power Rankings are voted on by Goal’s editors and writers. Comments written by Rudi Schuller.) 1. FC DALLAS LAST WEEK: 1 CHANGE: — Another week, another No. 1 ranking for Dallas. This team is firing on all cylinders right now, showing great resiliency from a heartbreaking CONCACAF Champions League exit. 2. PORTLAND TIMBERS LAST WEEK: 3 CHANGE: +1 The Timbers keep racking up results home and away, knocking on the door for the top spot....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on Sunday that the frozen ready-to-eat chicken nuggets that were produced on May 6, 2020, are subject to recall. The recalled product is the 4-lb bag of “Pilgrim’s Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Nuggets,” with a best before date of May 6, 2021, and a lot code of 0127. Product cases contain lot codes 0127105009, 0127105010, 0127105011, 0127105012, 0127105013, 0127105014, 0127105015, or 0127105016 printed on the box....

The Chiefs left tackle will have surgery on an injured groin muscle he suffered in practice last week which will cause him to miss multiple games, KMBC News reported Wednesday. Fisher will travel to Philadelphia to see a specialist for the surgery and likely will have it Thursday, coach Andy Reid said, but didn’t say how long he will be out. NFL media reported that a core surgery normally has a 4-6 week recovery time, which means Patrick Mahomes’ primary blocker will be gone for at least a fourth of the season....

The Kansas City Police released the following statement on the incident: MORE: Chiefs Super Bowl parade 2020 time, route and how to watch It’s unclear just how long police were chasing the suspect, but Kansas City Police spokesperson Jake Becchina told 41 Action News several vehicles were in pursuit “very quickly.” The 41 Action News report states police used stop sticks, which struck the vehicle before executing a PIT maneuver later on....

While annoying, chigger bites are fairly easy to treat. Better yet, you can take steps to prevent them. This article describes what chiggers are, how they bite, and the symptoms they cause. It also explains how to treat and prevent chigger bites. What Are Chiggers? Chiggers are the larvae (babies) of harvest mites, or Trombiculidae. Closely related to ticks, the mites are arachnids and part of the same family that includes spiders and scorpions....

When George W. Bush visits China next month, he’ll be a long way from Sertar, too. But events there will be on the minds of some U.S. officials traveling with the president; Washington hopes to raise the issue at bilateral human-rights discussions that may resume later this month. Chinese authorities are expected to continue demolition until October, and in early August, NEWSWEEK has learned, a bomb exploded outside local government offices in the town of Kangding....

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday said “political forces” in the U.S. are influencing the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The communist Chinese government on Friday announced new national security laws aimed to suppress such protests by banning behaviors loosely classified as treason and subversion. Wang chastised U.S. leaders during a press conference during the annual National People’s Congress meetings in which Beijing lawmakers addressed their top 2020 concerns: national security issues involving the Hong Kong protests and economic growth in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic....

Now, with the unveiling of new regulations Friday, visiting international media will have greater freedom to travel and report during the 2008 Olympics and the run-up to the Games, from Jan. 1, 2007, to Oct. 17, 2008. The most important aspect of the nine-point regulations is article 6, which states that “to interview organizations or individuals in China, foreign journalists need only to obtain their prior consent.” This article supersedes—for the period of its validity—some of the most stringent restrictions that have bedeviled foreign journalists in China for decades....

President Joe Biden added more Chinese companies to the off-limits list late Thursday making it a total of 59 in a move that updated an order signed by former President Donald Trump in 2020 where 31 were originally listed, the Associated Press reported. Biden said the update is to “ensure that U.S. investments are not supporting Chinese companies that undermine the security or values of the United States and our allies....

On Wednesday, Turkish health minister Fahrettin Koca said his country had ordered 50 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech pharmaceutical company, with the first shipment set to arrive on December 11, according to a statement. Turkish labs will assess the safety of the vaccine and initial results from Phase III clinical trials, with an emergency use authorization possible soon, he said. “If developments continue positively as we expect, Turkey would be among the first countries in the world to begin vaccinations in the early phase,” Koca said....

Life has been unusually tense in the past few months for officials like Hu and their underlings. On Oct. 15, more than 2,000 select Chinese Communist Party cadres will gather for a pivotal meeting at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Participants’ careers could soar or stall, depending on political currents far outside their control. Although president and party leader Hu Jintao (no relation to the Youth League chief) and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are slated to keep their jobs until they retire in 2012, the No....

“Gone are the days when one country or a group of countries dictated the world,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily press briefing on Tuesday. Zhao accused the G7 of “distorting facts” after the three-day summit in England concluded on Sunday with a communique that rapped China multiple times for its policies in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, as well as for its trade practices and technological standards....

China, the “friendly neighbor” that shares a border with Afghanistan, plans to send more shipments of food and supplies soon, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said Thursday. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Regional Director Alexander Matheou said Afghanistan faces an “extremely difficult few months” as low winter temperatures start, cuts to health services endanger citizens, food shortages rage, and drought and poverty plague the country....

The move comes as a report from Reuters indicated Washington is preparing to impose fresh sanctions on Beijing over its interference with democracy in Hong Kong. Citing four anonymous sources, the Financial Times reported on Friday that Washington had stopped plans for the diplomat to travel to Tianjin after China refused to agree to a meeting with her counterpart, Le Yucheng. China, instead, offered a meeting with Xie Feng, the number five foreign ministry official who is responsible for U....

Biden received the Intelligence Community’s report on the origin of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as its 90-day deadline was set to expire. Contents of the report have not been made public, but the Intelligence Community has reportedly been unable to reach a consensus on how the pandemic began, keeping both the lab leak theory and natural origin theory on the table. Amidst an already strained relationship, China has been heavily critical of the Intelligence Community’s involvement in the origin-finding process, as they aren’t scientists....

Furthermore, the piece claims that “the U.S. Democratic Party wants to prove the weakness and inability of the Trump administration’s epidemic fight.” Democratic opposition to Trump and Americans’ outrage over the epidemic’s casualties, the op-ed says, will eventually end the “Washington-launched propaganda war” against China. The op-ed, titled “Washington’s hysterical COVID-19 claims will fail,” directly mentions Trump by name only once, but it takes issue with “Washington…now attacking Beijing from three directions....

Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington, DC think tank, has examined trade data showing that, despite being punished for the war, Russia continues to have access to crucial dual-use technologies such as semiconductors, thanks in part to China and Hong Kong. It also showed that imports to Russia have rebounded, as have supply chains for consumer goods, such as smartphones, appliances and cars, as the country adapts to sanctions that had been aimed at isolating it from the global financial system....