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British military equipment maker BAE Systems announced yesterday that it had agreed to buy U.S. company Ball Aerospace from the Ball Corporation for about $5.55 billion.

BAE said it hoped to complete the acquisition of the aerospace firm in the first half of 2024, with an anticipated tax credit taking the "underlying economic consideration for the business" to $4.8 billion.

British military equipment maker BAE Systems yesterday announced a 57 percent jump in net profits for the first half of this year as government defense spending increases amid the war in Ukraine.

Profit after tax increased to 965 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in the six months to the end of June compared with 615 million pounds in the first half of last year, BAE said in a statement.

Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish butcher and chef popularly known as Salt Bae, has been given a judicial fine of 8,700 Turkish Liras ($876) by an Istanbul court for insulting an ex-waiter in public.

An invoice of nearly half-million Turkish Liras ($50,888) asked from four guests who went to a restaurant of world-renowned Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, known as the Salt Bae, in London sensationalized social media.

People reacted to the invoice, saying, "Dinner in Nusret London is more expensive than flying to and eating in a Nusret restaurant in Istanbul."

An invoice of nearly half-million Turkish Liras ($50,888) asked from four guests who went to a restaurant of world-renowned Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, known as the Salt Bea, in London sensationalized social media.

People reacted to the invoice, saying, "Dinner in Nusret London is more expensive than flying to and eating in a Nusret restaurant in Istanbul."

World-renowned Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, known as the Salt Bae, has moved to an apartment once owned by 20th-century Turkish playwright Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, popularly known as "Şair-i Azam" (The Grand Poet).

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After spending a year monitoring his 14 restaurants across the globe, Gökçe decided to spend more time in Istanbul.

The co-partner of Turkey’s global Nusr-et chain of grill houses, Nusret Gökçe, who became a social media phenomenon in early 2017 for his meat-cutting and salt-drizzling skills, is set to open a hamburger chain, Salt Bae, named after his salt-sprinkling meme, New York Post reported on Feb.4. “We’ve already signed a lease for our first Salt Bae in Los Angeles.