Our daily lap around the world

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh soccer club Wrexham FC, owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, won its first promotion in 15 years. After the two American actors bought the struggling Wrexham club for $2.5 million in 2021, they began filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary show called Welcome to Wrexham, which follows Reynolds and McElhenney as they learn the ropes of sports club ownership. This season, the two new owners led Wrexham to its first league title at any level since 1977, earning the club an automatic promotion to the English Football League (three divisions below the Premier League).

🌎🪖 Countries around the world spent a combined $2.24 trillion on their militaries last year. That’s per an annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which found global military spending last year rose nearly 4% above 2021’s record high when adjusted for inflation. (The US spent $877 billion on its military last year, a sum that’s larger than the next 10 countries combined, as well as 3x larger than second-place China).

🇮🇳 Indian police arrested Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh after weeks on the run. Singh is a popular figure within a movement seeking to establish a sovereign region in the state of Punjab for followers of India’s minority Sikh religion. Last month, when Indian police initially began searching for Singh over accusations of attempted murder and creating “disharmony” in society, authorities blocked internet access for nearly all of Punjab’s 30+ million residents in a bid to avoid mass protests.