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  • Kevin Durant traded to Rockets as part of historic 7-team deal

    Kevin Durant traded to Rockets as part of historic 7-team deal

    Houston takes a huge swing to add Kevin Durant in its quest to topple Oklahoma City atop the Western Conference.

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    The largest trade in NBA history finally came together on Sunday, with centerpiece Kevin Durant joining the Houston Rockets in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and a slew of other assets with no fewer than seven teams and 13 players involved.

    Rockets get:

    • Kevin Durant
    • Clint Capela

    Suns get:

    • Jalen Green
    • Dillon Brooks
    • Khaman Maluach (No. 10 overall)
    • Rasheer Fleming (No. 31 overall)
    • Koby Brea (No. 41 overall)
    • Daeqwon Plowden
    • 2026 second-round pick
    • 2032 second-round pick

    Nets get:

    • 2026 second-round pick
    • 2030 second-round pick

    Warriors get:

    • Alex Toohey (No. 52 overall)
    • Jahmai Mashack (No. 59 overall)

    Hawks get:

    • David Roddy
    • 2031 second-round pick
    • Cash

    Lakers get:

    • Adou Thiero (No. 36 overall)
    • Cash

    Timberwolves get:

    • Rocco Zikarsky (No. 45 overall)
    • 2026 second-round pick
    • 2032 second-round pick
    • Cash

    “Kevin impacts the game on both ends of the court and is one of the most efficient scorers in the history of basketball,” Rockets general manager Rafael Stone said. “We liked the growth our team showed last season and believe Kevin’s skill set will integrate seamlessly.”

    The seven-team involvement in the Durant trade tops the previous record, a six-team transaction last summer that most notably sent Klay Thompson to the Dallas Mavericks.

    “One of the greatest to ever play the game, we are grateful for the impact Kevin made on our organization and in our community,” Phoenix general manager Brian Gregory said of Durant. “As a member of the Suns, he climbed the scoring charts to become just the eighth player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points, and we wish him the best as he continues his career in Houston.”

    There will be at least five second-round draft picks in the deal before all terms are satisfied, the potential for another second-round pick swap and the Hawks and Timberwolves both had to receive some cash considerations to make all the math work.

    And some of those draft picks won’t actually be made until 2032, which raises the serious possibility that some players who will go down in history as being part of the trade haven’t reached high school yet.

    Durant averaged 26.6 points last season, his 17th in the NBA — not counting one year missed because of injury. For his career, the 6-foot-11 forward is averaging 27.2 points and seven rebounds per game.

    The move brings Durant back to the state of Texas, where he played his only year of college basketball for the Longhorns and was the college player of the year before going as the No. 2 pick in the 2007 draft by Seattle.

    Houston becomes his fifth franchise, joining the SuperSonics (who then became the Oklahoma City Thunder), Golden State, Brooklyn and Phoenix. Durant won his two titles with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018, and last summer in Paris he became the highest-scoring player in U.S. Olympic basketball history and the first men’s player to be part of four gold-medal teams.

    Durant is a four-time scoring champion, a two-time Finals MVP and one of eight players in NBA history with more than 30,000 career points.

    “Having played against Kevin and coached him before, I know he’s the type of competitor who fits with what we’ve been building here in Houston,” Rockets coach Ime Udoka said. “His skill level, love of basketball, and dedication to his craft have made him one of the most respected players of his generation, and my staff and I are excited to work with him.”

    Houston sent Green and Brooks to Phoenix, along with the rights to Khaman Maluach from last month’s draft, a second-round pick in 2026 and another second-rounder in 2032.

    The Hawks got David Roddy, cash and a 2031 second-round pick swap from the Rockets. Brooklyn gets a 2026 second-round pick and another in 2030 from the Rockets, and the Warriors received the rights to Jahmai Mashack from last month’s draft.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report

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  • ‘I Think Game Pass is Unsustainable’

    ‘I Think Game Pass is Unsustainable’

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    The founder and former president of Arkane Studios Raphaël Colantonio, who left in 2019, took to social media weighing on the huge Microsoft and Xbox layoffs.

    “Why is no-one talking about the elephant in the room? Cough cough (Gamepass),” said Colantonio (spotted by VideoGamesChronicle).

    He added, “I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by MS’s ‘infinite money’, but at some point reality has to hit. I don’t think GP can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”

    A user stated that Game Pass wasn’t designed to be profitable in the short or medium term and Colantonio agrees.

    “But it’s a long game that involves throwing a tsunami at the entire ecosystem of the industry,” he stated. “Only the gamers like it because the offer is too good to be true, but eventually even gamers will hate it when they realize the effects on the games.”

    The layoffs at Xbox have seen Perfect Dark, Everwild, and the ZeniMax Online Studios MMORPG cancelled, as well as The Initiative shutdown. Candy Crush developer King is laying off about 200 employees and as many as 100 people at Blizzard working on Warcraft Rumble have been let go. Many other studios at Xbox also saw at least a handful of people let go.

    A life-long and avid gamer, William D’Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.

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  • The best photos from Black Sabbath’s Birmingham farewell

    The best photos from Black Sabbath’s Birmingham farewell

    Shyamantha Asokan

    BBC News, West Midlands

    Ross Halfin A man sits on a black throne with a bat motif at the top. He has shoulder-length brown hair and he is wearing black. There is a microphone in front of him.Ross Halfin
    AFP via Getty Images A man with a guitar and long hair plays on a stage, in front of a large crowd.AFP via Getty Images

    Ozzy Osbourne, 76, performed his farewell show on a black throne.

    The farewell show’s all-star line-up included the US rock band Anthrax, with guitarist Frank Bello rocking out here.

    It was the heavy metal gig to, for many fans, end all heavy metal gigs as Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath bade farewell to live performing supported by a host of legendary music acts in front of 40,000 fans.

    The group, formed in Birmingham in 1968, rocked out Villa Park in a homecoming gig that had created a huge buzz in the city in recent weeks.

    They were joined by acts including Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and Slayer with guest appearances from the likes of Ronnie Wood, Steven Tyler and Jack Black.

    Fans travelled from across the world and sported their own rockstar outfits for the farewell – with everything from tattoos to socks bearing Osbourne’s name or image.

    Ross Halfin A man stands behind a drumkit on a stage and holds his arms up to a large crowd. He is wearing all black and a black baseball cap that is on backwards.Ross Halfin

    US heavy metal band Metallica also played at the show

    Getty Images A beach-ball bounces over the head of crowds of concert-goers at the gigGetty Images

    Thousands of fans packed Villa Park for the legendary concert

    The legendary frontman, 76, who has Parkinson’s disease, sang while seated on a black throne.

    “I don’t know what to say, man, I’ve been laid up for like six years…thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he told the crowd.

    “You are the best, each and every one of you.”

    A huge sea of people are seen in the stadium, lit up by red lights from the stage

    Tickets for the concert sold out well in advance

    Famous musicians and celebrities sent in video messages that were played at the show, alongside messages from fans.

    “You are one of the most remarkable singers of our time,” Sir Elton John told Osbourne in his message.

    “You’ve been through so much crap in the last few years – I hope this is the best day of your life so far.”

    Red and yellow fireworks light up the stadium.

    Fireworks lit up the stadium as Black Sabbath bade farewell to their fans

    On Sunday, fans were still milling around the city, taking in the Ozzy and Sabbath shrines – including the mural which the band hand-signed on Navigation Street.

    “I’ve never seen Ozzy before, it was my first time and obviously the last time, but I couldn’t wish of wished for anything better,” said Daisy Clemson from Blackburn.

    “It’s been great just seeing all the metal fans, all the t-shirts, the sense of community – it’s been fantastic.. everybody we’ve spoken to has been lovely.”

    Bill Fernandes, from Atlanta, Georgia, said it was “the best show ever”.

    “I’ve gone to a lot of shows over the years, and this one was special.

    “It was something else, it was a religious experience.”

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  • Indira Parthasarathy turns 96, wishes to complete Macbeth in Tamil

    Indira Parthasarathy turns 96, wishes to complete Macbeth in Tamil

    Indira Parthasarathy, one of the towering figures of modern Tamil literature and drama, turned 96 on Sunday and revealed his keen interest in completing the adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Tamil.

    His eyes lit up as he spoke about the project with childlike enthusiasm.

     “I have completed 50 per cent of the work. It’s not a translation, but an adaptation,” he said. It was during this process that his calcium levels dropped, requiring hospitalisation.

    “I stopped at the scene where Macbeth kills Duncan in his sleep. He says, ‘Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more.’ I also lost sleep from that day,” quipped Mr Parthasarathy with a smile, drawing an uncanny parallel between his own experience and Shakespeare’s tormented protagonist.

    He has engaged with the adaptation of King Lear as Iruthi Aattam and The Tempest as Sooravali. Iruthi Aattam, he noted, takes its title from Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame.

    Asked if he would finish the current work, Mr Parthasarathy said he needed to be in the right mood. “When I meet friends and others, I get the enthusiasm to complete it,” he said. His birthday celebration brought together family members, as well as many friends, students, publishers, and admirers.

    Among them were Velu Saravanan, the well-known theatre personality, and Ilango Kumaravel — who adapted Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan for the stage and later collaborated with director Mani Ratnam on the film adaptation. Both were among Mr Parthasarathy’s first students at Pondicherry University.

    “I was a physics student and had little idea about any subject, let alone theatre. He shaped me. He once came to the university on a Sunday to appreciate my play,” recalled Saravanan.

    Parthasarathy is, in a way, Kesavan — the protagonist of his novel Verpattru. “My father was a Sanskrit scholar, and we lived in a house opposite that of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in Kumbakonam. Parents on Sarangapani Street aspired to have children who excelled in mathematics. I pursued an M.A. in Tamil just to express my protest,” he said.

    Published – July 07, 2025 12:56 am IST

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  • Leaker shares new DJI Osmo Nano, Osmo 360 and Mic 3 release plans with launch delays mooted

    Leaker shares new DJI Osmo Nano, Osmo 360 and Mic 3 release plans with launch delays mooted

    The Osmo Nano is no longer expected to join the Mic 3 and Osmo 360 this month. (Image source: via Igor Bogdanov)

    A well-regarded leaker has provided updated expectations for several of DJI’s upcoming product releases. Unfortunately, there are alleged delays regarding the Osmo 360 and Osmo Nano, although the Mic 3 is still tipped to launch before the end of the month.

    Jasper Ellens has shed new light on the whereabouts of multiple new DJI devices, including its first 360-degree action camera. Incidentally, more specifications have now turned up online concerning the Osmo 360, full details of which we have covered separately. Not only that, but Ellens claims to have received new information about the forthcoming Osmo Nano and Mic 3 too.

    To recap, the leaker provided a similar update almost a month ago. At the time, Ellens suggested that the Osmo 360 would be the first of the three to officially arrive, citing a July 15 release date. If that were to occur, then we would have expected DJI to share an official teaser by July 8 at the latest. Apparently though, DJI has now pushed the Osmo 360’s launch to coincide with the Mic 3’s, which stays at July 29.

    For some reason, the smaller Osmo Nano is not believed to be debuting this month at all. Initially, the quasi-DJI Action 2 (curr. $211 on Amazon) successor was anticipated to land a week between the Osmo 360 and Mic 3 on July 23. However, Ellens asserts that DJI has postponed this release ‘until at least August’. While no reason has been given, Ellens wording implies that we may see further delays beyond August too. To that end, an early autumn launch would clash with the Mini 5 Pro drone, which has been tipped to surface on August 7.

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  • Wimbledon organisers apologise after line-calling system turned off in error | Wimbledon 2025

    Wimbledon organisers apologise after line-calling system turned off in error | Wimbledon 2025

    Wimbledon organisers have apologised after the electronic line-calling system was turned off in error at a crucial moment in Sonay Kartal’s match on Centre Court.

    The British No 3’s opponent, the 34-year-old Russian veteran Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, accused the All England Club of home bias and said a game had been stolen from her when the AI-enhanced technology missed a call.

    Pavlyuchenkova, on game point, became convinced that a Kartal shot had landed long but there was no “out” call by the system which controversially replaced line judges this year.

    The umpire, Nico Helwerth, who did not know the system had been turned off, said the technology was “unable to track the last point”, which had to be replayed.

    “I don’t know if it’s in or it’s out. How do I know? You cannot prove it, because she’s local they can say whatever. You took the game away from me,” Pavlyuchenkova said after Kartal won the point and went on to break for a 5-4 lead. “They have stolen the game from me, they stole it.”

    A Wimbledon spokesperson said the club had apologised to the players after finding that the technology was “deactivated in error on part of the server’s side of the court for one game”.

    Pavlyuchenkova went on to overpower Kartal, who later said she was “devastated” that her fairytale run had ended with a 7-6 (3), 6-4 defeat on her Centre Court debut.

    Cameron Norrie became the last Briton standing after battling through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals in a five-set epic which also was not short of drama.

    The 29-year-old defeated his Chilean opponent Nicolás Jarry in four and a half hours and became the only British player to reach the second week of the tournament despite a promising start from several hopefuls.

    Norrie, the British No 3, fell to the floor after his 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (7), 6-7 (5), 6-3 win in front of a roaring No 1 Court crowd. Spectators appeared to boo Jarry when the South American confronted Norrie as the pair were shaking hands at the net.

    Jarry, the 29-year-old world No 143, had earlier complained to the umpire after appearing frustrated with how long Norrie was taking to serve.

    “It is not a nervous tic, it is something he can control,” Jarry said. He later denied there had been a spat, saying all he had told Norrie at the net was the Briton had deserved to win.

    In an on-court interview after the match, Norrie said of the five-set epic: “I just had to keep fighting.”

    The former top 10 player, who was knocked out of the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2022 by Novak Djokovic, went on: “I think at the beginning of this year I was struggling a little bit with confidence and had some doubts – and just wanted to enjoy my tennis a little bit more.

    “I’m doing that and I enjoyed it today, so it was a bonus today, but I was more happy I was enjoying it and I was playing point for point, that’s what mattered.”

    When asked about the courtside drama, he added that Jarry had told him he was “a little bit vocal”.

    Kartal, ranked 298 in the world this time last year and 51 now, earlier said she was proud of her performance this week.

    “Probably for the rest of the day I’ll be a bit sad,” the 5ft 4in Brighton native told reporters.

    “But I think tomorrow I’ll probably wake up, and I can look back on this week and be super proud of it and step back and think, you know, fourth round of a slam, it’s the first experience, and for it being here, having beaten the players that I did to do that.”

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    She said she had “goosebumps” entering and exiting Centre Court to thunder and lightning. Her match was as dramatic as the weather after the embarrassing malfunction with the AI-enhanced Hawk-Eye technology.

    After an investigation which included speaking to the players, Helwerth, Hawk-Eye operators and a review official, a spokesperson for the All England Club said: “It is now clear that the live electronic line calling (ELC) system, which was working optimally, was deactivated in error on part of the server’s side of the court for one game by those operating the system.

    “In that time there were three calls not picked up by live ELC on the affected part of the court. Two of these were called by the chair umpire, who was not made aware that the system had been deactivated.

    “Following the third, the chair umpire stopped the match and consulted with the review official. It was determined that the point should be replayed.

    “We continue to have full confidence in the accuracy of the ball tracking technology. The live ELC system relies on the Hawk-Eye operators, the review official and the technology to work in harmony. This did not happen.

    “In this instance there was a human error and as a consequence we have fully reviewed our processes and made the appropriate changes.”

    Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper, the British No 1s, have both complained about the new technology and questioned some of its calls.

    Speaking after her win, Pavlyuchenkova said she believed the umpire should have called the ball out rather than making them replay the point.

    “He was probably scared to take such a big decision. I think they should … that’s why we have a chair umpire,” she told reporters.

    “Otherwise, I think soon let’s just play without them, right, and then we’re going to have everything automatic. I think we losing a little bit of the charm of actually having human beings … it just becomes a little bit weird and, like, robot sort of orientated.”

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  • France’s Gardoque and Spanish teen Izuzquiza earn first Beach Pro Tour golds

    Sofia Izuzquiza, a silver medalist of last year’s FIVB U19 Beach Volleyball World Championship, now rejoiced with her first medal on the Beach Pro Tour. The Spanish teen and her namesake Sofia Gonzalez, who had one gold from three years ago, earned their second Tour podium together, after the Krakow Futures bronze last month. In Montpellier, the third-seeded Spanish pair managed to string up four straight-set victories on the way to the final, where they dropped their first set of the tournament, but beat top-seeded home favorites Elsa Descamps & Anouk Dupin by 2-1 (21-17, 14-21, 15-9).

    In the semifinals, Izuzquiza & Gonzalez put together a 2-0 (21-15, 23-21) victory over USA’s Alexis Durish & Audrey Koenig, while Descamps & Dupin beat fourth-seeded Czechs Martina Maixnerova & Kylie Neuschaeferova by 2-0 (21-14, 21-15) and guaranteed themselves their first Beach Pro Tour medal as a team. Meanwhile, Dupin has extended her incredible season. She has now made the podiums at all five of her appearances on the Tour since the start of the year, collecting two golds, two silvers and one bronze, and she has achieved that with four different partners.

    21-year-old Americans Alexis Durish & Audrey Koenig produced a 2-0 (21-16, 21-14) shutout of Maixnerova & Neuschaeferova in the third-place match and have now picked up two medals out of two Beach Pro Tour participations. At their rookie appearance in Geneva last week, they triumphed as gold medalists. In Montpellier, they started from the qualifications again and extended their winning streak to 12 games in a row, before Izuzquiza & Gonzalez put an end to it in the semis.

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  • Scott Dixon Grabs Unlikely Win at Mid-Ohio after Alex Palou’s Miscue

    Scott Dixon Grabs Unlikely Win at Mid-Ohio after Alex Palou’s Miscue

    Scott Dixon took advantage of a rare mistake by teammate and NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship leader Alex Palou to take the lead with five laps to go Sunday and win The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Presented by the All-New 2026 Passport.

    Dixon continued two remarkable series-record streaks with his 59th career victory and first win this season in the No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing Honda: He has won at least once in 21 consecutive seasons dating back to 2025 and has recorded a victory in 23 seasons during his illustrious career. 

    Six-time series champion Dixon crossed the finish line just .4201 of a second ahead of Palou’s No. 10 Open AI Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, the closest finish this season in the series. Christian Lundgaard finished third in the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet.

    NTT P1 Award winner Palou appeared to be headed to his seventh victory of the season when he ran wide in Turn 4 and slowed, with Dixon squeezing past for a lead he would not surrender.

    Stay tuned for a complete report.


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  • BRICS summit Brazil 2025

    BRICS summit Brazil 2025

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the BRICS Summit, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025.

    Ricardo Moraes | Reuters

    The BRICS bloc of developing nations on Sunday condemned the increase in tariffs and attacks on Iran, but refrained from naming U.S. President Donald Trump. The group’s declaration, which also took aim at Israel’s military actions in the Middle East, also spared its member Russia from criticism and mentioned war-torn Ukraine just once.

    The two-day summit was marked by the absence of two of its most powerful members. China’s President Xi Jinping did not attend a BRICS summit for the first time since he became his country’s leader in 2012. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who spoke via videoconference, continues to mostly avoid traveling abroad due to an international arrest warrant issued after Russia invaded Ukraine.

    In an indirect swipe at the U.S., the group’s declaration raised “serious concerns” about the rise of tariffs which it said were “inconsistent with WTO (World Trade Organization) rules.” The BRICS added that those restrictions “threaten to reduce global trade, disrupt global supply chains, and introduce uncertainty.”

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who hosted the summit, criticized NATO’s decision to hike military spending by 5% of GDP annually by 2035. That sentiment was later echoed in the group’s declaration.

    “It is always easier to invest in war than in peace,” Lula said at the opening of the summit, which is scheduled to continue on Monday.

    Iran in attendance

    Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was expected to attend the summit before the attacks on his country in June, sent his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, to the meeting in Rio.

    The group’s declaration criticized the attacks on Iran without mentioning the U.S. or Israel, the two nations that conducted them.

    In his speech, Araghchi informed leaders that he had advocated for every member of the United Nations to strongly condemn Israel. He added Israel and the U.S. should be accountable for rights violations. The Iranian foreign minister said the aftermath of the war “will not be limited” to one country.

    “The entire region and beyond will be damaged,” Araghchi said.

    BRICS leaders expressed “grave concern” for the humanitarian situation in Gaza, called for the release of all hostages, a return to the negotiating table and reaffirmed their commitment to the two-state solution.

    Later, Iran’s Araghchi stated in a separate message on the messaging app Telegram that his government had expressed reservations regarding a two-state solution in a note, saying it would not work “just as it has not worked in the past.”

    Also on Telegram, Russia’s foreign ministry in another statement named the U.S. and Israel, and condemned the “unprovoked military strikes” against Iran.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin participates in the BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, via videolink from Moscow, Russia, on July 6, 2025.

    Mikhail Metzel | Via Reuters

    Russia spared

    The group’s 31-page declaration mentions Ukraine just once, while condemning “in the strongest terms” recent Ukrainian attacks on Russia.

    “We recall our national positions concerning the conflict in Ukraine as expressed in the appropriate fora, including the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly,” the group said.

    João Alfredo Nyegray, an international business and geopolitics professor at the Pontifical Catholic University in Parana, said the summit could have played a role in showing an alternative to an unstable world, but it won’t do so.

    “The withdrawal of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the uncertainty about the level of representation for countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are confirming the difficulty for the BRICS to establish themselves as a cohesive pole of global leadership,” Nyegray said. “This moment demands high-level articulation, but we are actually seeing dispersion.”

    Avoid Trump’s tariffs

    While Lula advocated on Sunday for reforming Western-led global institutions, Brazil sought to avoid becoming a target of higher tariffs.

    Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs against the bloc if it takes any steps to undermine the dollar. Last year, at the summit hosted by Russia in Kazan, the Kremlin sought to develop alternatives to U.S.-dominated payment systems, which would allow it to dodge Western sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

    Brazil decided to focus on less controversial issues in the summit, such as promoting trade relations between members and global health, after Trump returned to the White House, said Ana Garcia, a professor at the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University.

    “Brazil wants the least amount of damage possible and to avoid drawing the attention of the Trump administration to prevent any type of risk to the Brazilian economy,” Garcia said.

    ‘Best opportunity for emerging countries’

    BRICS was founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but the group last year expanded to include Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.

    As well as new members, the bloc has 10 strategic partner countries, a category created at last year’s summit that includes Belarus, Cuba and Vietnam.

    That rapid expansion led Brazil to put housekeeping issues — officially termed institutional development — on the agenda to better integrate new members and boost internal cohesion.

    Despite notable absences, the summit is important for attendees, especially in the context of instability provoked by Trump’s tariff wars, said Bruce Scheidl, a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo’s BRICS study group.

    “The summit offers the best opportunity for emerging countries to respond, in the sense of seeking alternatives and diversifying their economic partnerships,” Scheidl said.

    Earlier on Sunday, a pro-Israel non-profit placed dozens of rainbow flags on Ipanema beach to protest Iran’s policies regarding LGBT+ people. On Saturday, human rights group Amnesty International protested Brazil’s plans for offshore oil drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River.

    For Lula, the summit is a welcome pause from a difficult domestic scenario, marked by a drop in popularity and conflict with Congress.

    The meeting was also an opportunity to advance climate negotiations and commitments on protecting the environment before November’s COP 30 climate talks in the Amazonian city of Belem.

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  • DJI Osmo 360: New Insta360 X5 and GoPro Max 2 rival launching with 120 MP and 1-inch CMOS camera

    DJI Osmo 360: New Insta360 X5 and GoPro Max 2 rival launching with 120 MP and 1-inch CMOS camera

    As previous leaks suggested, the Osmo 360 will be capable of shooting 360-degree videos in up to 8K at 30 FPS or 4K and 120 FPS to create slow-motion videos with a 170-degree field of view (FoV). Alternatively, the action camera can drop its resolution to 5K for while upping its frame rate to 60 Hz. According to Ellens, the camera will also leverage a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 120 MP native output and 2.4 µm wide pixels to surpass the camera found in last year’s Osmo Action 5 Pro.

    Moreover, the Osmo 360 will feature software like HorizonSteady 360-degree software to maximise image stability, Apple Watch and Garmin integrations and gesture/voice controls for hands-free usage. Apparently, DJI’s first 360-degree action camera will deliver 100-minute runtimes when shooting 8K and 30 FPS footage too, or up to 180 minutes when paired with DJI’s Battery Extension Bar, pictured below. Incidentally, this accessory also adds a 1/4-inch threaded magnetic quick-release accessory mount with magnetic charging for the Osmo 360 itself. Ellens has posed a new release date alongside the Mic 3 as well, full details of which we have provided separately.

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