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[ad_1] YUZAWA, Japan: It’s noon on a hot day in the Japanese city where Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s next prime minister, grew up, but more than half of the stores in a downtown shopping arcade are closed and the sidewalks are empty except by the few older passersby. A building that …

[ad_1] NEW YORK: ByteDance dropped the sale of TikTok in the United States on Sunday (September 13) in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle that hopes to avoid a US ban while appeasing the Chinese government, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Beijing-based company had been in talks …

[ad_1] TALENT, Oregon: Search and rescue teams, with dogs in tow, deployed to the blackened ruins of southern Oregon cities on Sunday (Sept. 13) as wildfires continue to ravage the western United States. authorities warn of massive casualties. A wildfire barrage in Oregon, California and Washington has destroyed thousands of …

[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) – China’s ByteDance has selected a consortium led by Oracle Corp for a deal for the US operations of short video app TikTok, beating rival bidder Microsoft Corp, a person familiar with it said on Sunday (Sept. 13). the case. ByteDance has been in talks to …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney’s remake of Mulan grossed $ 23.2 million over the weekend at the China box office, a slow start to the big-budget epic about a Chinese folk hero in its biggest theatrical market. Mulan’s debut missed director Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which grossed $ 29.8 million in …

[ad_1] LONDON: The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in coronavirus cases globally on Sunday (September 13), with a total increase of 307,930 in 24 hours. The largest increases were from India, the United States and Brazil, according to the agency’s website. Deaths increased by 5,537 to a …

[ad_1] Iranian officials executed 27-year-old Greco-Roman wrestling champion Navid Afkari on Saturday, despite pleas from UFC President Dana White and US President Donald Trump to spare his life. The Iranian government claims that Afkari murdered a security guard during the 2018 protests. Afkari, his lawyers and his family say he …

[ad_1] TOKYO: Naomi Osaka’s victory at the US Open was hailed on Sunday (September 13) by Japanese media and officials, who widely welcomed her campaign for victims of racial injustice and against police brutality. Public broadcaster NHK broke into its regular news program to break the news of the 22-year-old’s …

[ad_1] MELBOURNE: Melbourne authorities arrested more than 70 people for disobeying stay-at-home orders to protest lockdown restrictions on Sunday (September 13), and some protesters clashed with riot police in a city market . About 250 people attended the illegal protest, the second in two days in the city, promoted by …

[ad_1] COMMENT: So he is the commitment? Good compromise. Potentially a world class compromise. Still, Jadon Sancho may not be, after all, the overriding goal Manchester United have been pursuing these past 12 months … Well that’s according to a longtime source connected to this column. And when you consider …