Pedro Neto is one of the attackers constantly linked with a move to Arsenal, with some Gooners considering him an ideal backup to Bukayo Saka.

Neto has been in fantastic form over the last few seasons as one of the top players in the Premier League.

Injuries have robbed him of several games in England’s top flight, but whenever Neto is on the pitch, he delivers delightful performances on the right wing for Wolves.

His pace and trickery make him tough to defend against, and Arsenal appreciates how he performs.

The Gunners have kept him on their shopping list for a long time, and the attacker also wants to play for them.

Crystal Palace is set to table a bid for Emile Smith Rowe as Fulham struggles to acquire him from Arsenal.

This looks likely to be the midfielder’s final season as an Arsenal player, and the Gunners are willing to let him go for the right price.

Several clubs find Smith Rowe an exciting player to add to their squad and are pushing to secure an agreement for his signature.

However, no accepted offer for his signature has yet been made, and Arsenal is not in a hurry.

Days ago, Fulham made an offer worth around £30 million, but the Gunners turned it down.

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Arsenal has been linked with a move for Adrien Rabiot after the midfielder left Juventus at the end of last month.

He had been at the Italian club since 2019, and they wanted him to stay, but he did not sign a new deal they offered him, and his contract expired.

He is now one of the biggest free agents on the market and is exploring his options.

A report on Tuttojuve claims he wants to play in the Premier League, and Arsenal is one of the clubs showing interest in the Frenchman.

The report also states that Rabiot is on Tottenham’s shopping list, and both London clubs will do their best to add him to their squad before this transfer window closes.

In February, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, fresh out of a landslide reelection victory, was welcomed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with a standing ovation. “You’re a true leader,” an audience member shouted as he took the stage and tried to talk over cheers and cries of “We love you, papa.”

He warned the CPAC crowd: “Dark forces are already taking over your country. You may not see it yet, but it’s already happening.”

Bukele, who has fashioned himself as the “world’s coolest dictator” and a “Philosopher King,” has become a darling of US conservatives because of his iron fist rulings and draconian crackdown on crime and gangs. After a trip to El Salvador in 2023, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) praised Bukele and the country as a “bright spot” in the region. And just last month, Tucker Carlson attended Bukele’s inauguration alongside Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Donald Trump Jr. 

“Nayib Bukele locks up the gangs, throws out the corrupt judges, unapologetically embraces God, and rebukes globalism with facts and results,” Gaetz posted on X. “He is beloved by his people, and an inspiration to the Western World.”

Farhad Moshiri, one of Iran’s most influential contemporary artists, died on July 16 at 61. The Third Line gallery, the Dubai gallery that represented him, confirmed his death.

“Our journey with Moshiri began in 2006 with New Paintings by Farhad Moshiri at our first space in the UAE. Since then, we’ve cherished witnessing his ever-evolving practice,” the gallery wrote on Instagram.  “Our thoughts are with his family. Farhad Moshiri will be deeply missed, remembered as both a friend and artist. May his soul rest in eternal peace.”

Moshir was renowned for his marriage of Persian visual traditions and Pop art sensibilities. American consumerism and advertising, pop music and comics mingled with Persian embroidery and calligraphy. His work sparkled, literally: beads, glitter, and faux gems often embellished his figuration, subverting subtle indictment with a precious levity. 

“He not only established the first wave of contemporary art post 1979, but also became one of the rare artists who radically, and successfully, brought all of the great craftsmanship, iconography and storytelling inherent in Persian culture and history into his contemporary practice,” Sotheby’s director for Middle Eastern and contemporary art Ashkan Baghestani told the National. “The breadth, diversity and scope of his output in this sense was unparalleled.”

Moshiri was born in 1963 in Shiraz, Iran, to a family that owned cinemas. Speaking to Artnet News in 2017, he recounted a childhood watching American films. The cinema was left amid the Iranian Revolution, when his family immigrated to Los Angeles, where he earned a fine arts degree from California Institute of the Arts in 1984. His explorations in installation, video, and painting coalesced around his great influences: Pop art and conceptualism. (He was sometimes called “the Middle East’s Andy Warhol,” a cliched moniker that has been applied in many variations to artists of the Global South.)

The fate of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Ohio will soon rest in one person’s hands. For the past week, Franklin County Judge Michael Holbrook has heard a case challenging a recent state law that includes a ban on the use of puberty blockers and hormones for trans youth. Now, it’s up to him to decide whether to turn a temporary block on the law into a permanent one—which would make Ohio just the third state to do so as a growing body of anti-trans laws moves through the courts.

From his chambers on the fifth floor of a downtown Columbus courthouse, the judge has heard pleas from the parents of trans children whose lives have been saved by gender-affirming care, physicians from the state’s children’s hospitals, and national experts in trans care. He’s also heard the state’s sharp defense of its law, featuring what is being framed as the “expert” testimony of nationally prominent anti-trans activists who made dubious claims about the efficacy and risks of puberty blockers, hormones, and other gender-affirming medical treatment.

Ohio’s sweeping law, dubbed the “Saving Adolescents from Experimentation” or “SAFE” Act, doesn’t just block the use of puberty blockers and hormones in trans youth (while allowing such medical interventions for cisgender children who may need them for precocious puberty or polycystic ovary syndrome). Passed by a GOP supermajority in January over Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto, it also prohibits trans girls and women from playing women’s sports, including college athletics. The ACLU of Ohio is challenging the entire law as a violation of the state’s single-subject rule for legislation, which requires that bills must pertain to one topic. The state says that topic is “addressing gender transition in children,” but the trial mainly focused on what the families of two trans girls have argued is the discriminatory, life-threatening impact of the ban on gender-affirming care.

“She laid down and wept in my bed. She is carrying looming anxiety and deep sadness surrounding this law.”

The International Court of Justice, the body that rules on whether or not a state is committing war crimes, just released a groundbreaking advisory opinion saying Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem violate international law. The advisory opinion is not binding, but carries “authority and legal weight,” according to the New York Times.  

Judge Nawaf Salam, reading out the Court’s opinion, said that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem constitutes “de facto annexation,” and that it infringes on the rights of the Palestinian people for self-determination. Therefore, Salam said, Israel should fully end their occupation of those territories outside its 1967 borders, provide reparations to Palestinians harmed by occupation, cease the construction of new settlements, and dismantle settlements that currently exist.  

Of the 15-member court, 11 members agreed on every provision of the opinion. Several members of the court also argued what most human rights organizations have said for decades: that Israel’s policies in the West Bank constitute “racial segregation or apartheid.” 

The United Nations General Assembly had requested the opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem in January 2023, prior to the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s military incursion into Gaza. This opinion is separate from the ongoing deliberations over South Africa’s case regarding genocide in Gaza. 

If you’ve ever wondered how noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo—famously depicted in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa—lived, look no further than a historic 700-year-old villa outside Florence, Italy, that recently hit the market.

The estate, now on sale for $19.6 million, is located on 66 acres among the Scandicci countryside. The villa was constructed around 1300 and by 1498 was owned by the Giocondo family, not long before Leonardo painted Lisa. It eventually passed to the Antinori family, from which it derives its name as the Villa Antinori di Monte Aguglioni.

Complete with four floors, the villa is roughly 43,000 square feet, including 14 bedrooms and 15 full baths. An entrance through an iron gate leads to a cypress-lined path into the garden and service entrance. It also boasts an entrance hall, five lounges, a dining room, a library, and an at-home gym, as well as also staff quarters, an elevator, a second floor terrace, and an antique iron veranda.

Though there have been renovations over the centuries, the residence still maintains many period details, among them a polygonally planned private chapel which serves as a “clear example of seventeenth-century religious architecture,” according to the listing.

Additional buildings on the property include a caretaker’s house, an orangery, a greenhouse, and varied agricultural buildings.