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Hong Kong/Tokyo CNN  —  Hogwarts is coming to Tokyo, as Warner Bros. pushes to expand one of the most successful franchises in literary and cinematic history. The company showed a preview of a new “Harry Potter” studio tour in the Japanese capital on Wednesday, its first outside the United Kingdom. The experience, which launches this summer,allows fans to wander the sets of Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4, and see original props and costumes from the films up close. “We’ve kept it all,” Jeff Nagler, president of worldwide studio operations at Warner Bros., told CNN in an interview in Tokyo. Warner Bros. and CNN share the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Nagler said the studio had chosen Japan because the country is one of its top markets — and also has potential to serve as a gateway to the wider Asia Pacific region. “That was one of the…

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Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. Macao, China CNN  —  Like many of his peers, Dan McAulay was furloughed from his job as a pilot during the pandemic. Being based in Macao, a city that had one of the world’s strictest approaches to the coronavirus pandemic, he found himself with a lot of time on his hands. McAulay and his wife, Rebeca Fellini, started learning how to distill alcohol as a lockdown hobby. And by the end of the nearly three years that Macao was a relative fortress, they had grown their pastime into a bona fide business – a gin brand called Owl Man, a play on the Chinese pronunciation of the city’s name “Ah Mahn.” Now, McAulay is back in the skies with Air Macau and…

Argentina played seven matches on their way to winning the 2022 World Cup, but the winner of the next tournament will play a game moreFifa has switched the format for the expanded 2026 World Cup back to four-team groups.The competition in the United States, Mexico and Canada was due to feature 16 groups of three because the number of teams is increasing from 32 to 48.But the success of the four-team format at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar caused the governing body to reconsider.The move expands the competition from its projected 80 matches to 104, including a new round-of-32 stage.Fifa said the top two and eight best third-placed teams would progress to the last 32."The revised format mitigates the risk of collusion and ensures that all the teams play a minimum of three matches, while providing balanced rest time between competing teams," said world football's governing body.external-linkThe move was…

Juan Mata to form team for Manchester exhibition about 'the artists on the pitch' - BBC News Source

Police body cam footage showed the moment a murderer returned to the crime scene and told an officer he knew what had happened there.Marek Hecko stabbed Adrian Ellingford, 44, twice in the back at a property in Nelson Grove, Chelmsford, on 25 July.He turned up at the Essex Police cordon the following morning and was heard telling an officer "you need me to figure it out, what happened".The 26-year-old, of Rookes Crescent in the city, was found guilty of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court and on Tuesday was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 26 years. Source

Islamabad, Pakistan CNN  —  Clashes between Pakistani police and Imran Khan’s supporters escalated outside the former prime minister’s home in Lahore on Wednesday as officers failed to arrest the embattled opposition leader for not showing up to court on corruption charges. The doorstep of Khan’s home in the eastern city remained a battleground on Wednesday as riot police swarmed the wider Zaman Park neighborhood and the violence stretched into a second day. Khan’s supporters hurled stones and projectiles at police while people inside his residence lit fires after officers fired tear gas into the compound. The violence began on Tuesday as Khan’s supporters gathered outside his residence to protest against attempts to arrest him. Police fired tear gas and used water cannons in an effort to disperse them, footage shared by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and local media showed. Police later cut the electricity supply to Khan’s home and…

CNN  —  Russia might be bogged down in its vicious onslaught on Ukraine, but President Vladimir Putin is winning big elsewhere – in the Republican presidential primary. The two highest-polling potential GOP nominees – former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – are making clear that if they make it to the White House, Ukraine’s lifeline of US weapons and ammunition would be in danger and the war could end on Putin’s terms. Their stands underscore rising antipathy among grassroots conservatives to the war and President Joe Biden’s marshaling of the West to bankroll Kyiv’s resistance to Putin’s unprovoked invasion. “The death and destruction must end now!” Trump wrote in replies to a questionnaire from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson about the war and US involvement. DeSantis, answering the same questions, countered with his most unequivocal signal yet that he’d downgrade US help for Ukraine if he wins the…

CNN  —  Vinícius Jr scored the goal that secured Real Madrid’s 14th European Cup last May, and this season his brilliance has continued to light up the team’s Champions League campaign. The supremely talented 22-year-old – widely considered one of the world’s best players – has six goals in seven matches in Europe and another eighth in La Liga, but he has also become a repeated victim of “hate crimes” in Spain, according to a players’ union. Ahead of the derby against Atlético Madrid in January, an effigy of Vinícius was hanged from a bridge in Madrid, while racist slurs have been caught on camera during Real’s matches at Osasuna, Mallorca, Real Valladolid and Atlético. As of yet, there have been no punishments handed down by Spain’s leading football authority – the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) – or any local prosecutors, but investigations into some cases are still ongoing.…