In the recent World Dog Show 2023 held in Geneva, Switzerland, a male Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Eastern Promise of Hamarang, cutely known as Dalbong, won the world title. Paw parent of Dalbong, Wency Villanueva, shared this exciting news on Facebook about his dog’s grand win. The Corgi emerged as one of the Best of Breed champions in this breed class, surpassing hundreds of Corgis in the competition. With overflowing emotions, Wency expressed their gratitude towards the victory. He also described the moment with Dalbong to be a remarkable highlight of their lives and extended appreciation ..read more

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has issued an order saying he must approve all secret talks after a leaked meeting between his foreign minister and the latter’s Libyan counterpart led to a fiasco. The premier has also said his ministers need to secure his consent before publicising news of any such meetings, his spokesperson said. Netanyahu, who said he had no knowledge of the meeting between the Israeli and Libyan foreign ministers, appears to want to distance himself from the fallout of the political debacle that could affect his entire normalisation agenda with Arab states ..read more

Receive free UK foreign policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK foreign policy news every morning. This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. James Cleverly is the highest-ranking British minister to visit Beijing since before the Covid-19 pandemic. Ahead of the trip, he gave an interview with George Parker about the UK’s China policy. Some thoughts on the internal Conservative consequences of that in today’s note. Inside Polit ..read more

Guangzhou on Wednesday became the first major Chinese city to announce an easing of mortgage curbs as the government ramps up efforts to revive the crisis-hit property sector and shore up the sputtering economy. The decision comes as some Chinese state-owned banks are expected to lower interest rates on existing mortgages, three sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, in the first such cut since the global financial crisis. Beijing hopes the reduction in mortgage payments will help revive consumer demand for property. The sector had been a major economic growth driver fo ..read more

M&C Saatchi’s former bosses, founding partners David Kershaw, Bill Muirhead and Jeremy Sinclair (below), are backing the agency’s new management with a £1m investment that takes their combined stake to 6%. M&C Saatchi is currently valued at £150m. CEO Moray MacLennan, who joined the agency shortly after it was formed in 1995 with Charles and Maurice Saatchi, is about to step down. Former Future CEO Zillah Byng-Thorne will takes over as executive chair, effectively boss. Former M&C CEO Kershaw says: “We know there are superb businesses with great leaders in the group. Now with Z ..read more

Britain’s supermarkets are feeling sore at the moment, smarting from what they see as the Government singling them out for price inflation when other sectors of the economy have been just as keen to pass on price rises to the poor old consumer. But food price inflation affects everyone (although not the supermarket bosses’ salaries) and finally there are signs that it’s reducing, down from a dizzying 14.3% in July to a still pretty vertginous 11.3% in August. A poll by Which? suggests their reputation is at its lowest ebb in a decade. Predictably they’ve been bigging up their special offers ..read more

Former Bachelorette contestant Josh Seiter announced on Tuesday that he is still alive, claiming that a hacker took hold of his Instagram account for 24 hours and faked his death. As Breitbart News and various other media outlets reported, Seiter’s Instagram account announced his untimely passing at the age of 36 by sharing an alleged “statement” from his family. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share the tragic news of Joshua’s unexpected passing,” the fake statement read. “As all who knew him can attest, Joshua was an incredibly bright light in an increasingly dim world. His f ..read more

Russian diplomat Dmitry Glukhov told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion of possible nuclear tests earlier in the year was conditional on such activity by the US.  Glukhov was responding to accusations aired by US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Bonnie Jenkins, who claimed that Putin’s speech from February amounted to a threat of renewed atomic testing. “I wish to underscore that the aforementioned statement by the Russian president about the hypothetical possibility of our country resuming nucl ..read more

Australians will vote on October 14 in a referendum that would enshrine in the nation’s constitution a mechanism for Indigenous people to advise parliament on policies that affect their lives. Supporters say embedding what is known as the ‘Voice to Parliament’ in the constitution would recognise Indigenous people’s special place in Australian history while giving them input into government policies. Opponents argue it would divide Australians along racial lines without reducing the severe inequalities faced by Indigenous people. Here are some of the key issues behind the referendum, the fir ..read more

CNN is expected to name former New York Times executive Mark Thompson as its next CEO, according to multiple reports. The network’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly in advanced talks to place Thompson at the head of the major cable news station, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Multiple senior executives at Warner Bros. Discovery have already been notified of his apparent hiring, according to the New York Times. Thompson — who helped revitalize the Times’ finances by growing its digital subscriber base as the newspaper’s chief executive from 2012 to 2020 — would ..read more