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Maria Rioumine Contributor Share on Twitter Maria Rioumine is the CEO and co-founder of Agora. U.S. cities are in the midst of an affordability crisis. Just between May 2020 and May 2021, home prices saw their biggest annual increase in more than two decades and construction material prices increased by 24%. The cost of renting […]

September 11, 2021 By Steve Scherer MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday denied he wanted his former justice minister to lie to the public amid a dispute they had over a 2019 corporate legal case, an accusation included in a book being released just days before the election. Ex-minister Jody […]

September 11, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – The paths of Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev will converge once again on Sunday with both men chasing history of their own in the U.S. Open final — the Serb seeking a calendar slam and the Russian looking for his maiden major. The men’s draw at Grand Slams […]

September 11, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) -Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took pole position for the Italian Grand Prix and surged five points clear of Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One championship after a sprint qualifying race on Saturday. Hamilton’s Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas won the sprint but engine penalties sent the Finn to […]

September 11, 2021 VENICE (Reuters) – Childhood friends and Hollywood stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon said teaming up again to write “The Last Duel”, Ridley Scott’s film about rape and justice in medieval France, was above all a lot of fun. The movie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, tells the true story […]

September 11, 2021 VENICE (Reuters) – Looking radiant and holding hands, singer Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck arrived for the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, getting into a water taxi to be whizzed off to their luxury hotel in the lagoon city. Affleck is in Venice for the festival premiere of Ridley Scott’s medieval epic […]

September 11, 2021 By Silvia Aloisi VENICE (Reuters) – The tension between labour and profit in globalised, market-oriented economies is at the centre of French director Stéphane Brizé’s new film “Another World”, the story of a plant manager who is asked by his bosses to lay off his own workers. The movie, which premieres at […]

September 11, 2021 By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) -Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said. He was 86. Guzman was captured in 1992 in Lima and jailed […]

September 11, 2021 By Mariano Valladolid and John Nazca ESTEPONA, Spain (Reuters) – A wildfire raging close to a popular Costa del Sol resort was still active on Saturday, and locals spoke of their anger about the blaze, which is believed to have been started deliberately. Andalucia’s regional forest fire agency said conditions had improved […]

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The enforcement of China’s new gaming regulations is unfolding like a cat-and-mouse game, with the country’s internet giants and young players constantly trying to outsmart each […]

September 11, 2021 LIMA (Reuters) – Abimael Guzman, the founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path that killed tens of thousands in the 1980s and 1990s, died on Saturday at 86, Peruvian authorities said in a tweet. Guzman had been reportedly in poor health in recent months and had been imprisoned since 1992. (Reporting by […]

September 11, 2021 By Joseph Ax and Rory Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) – Moments after Novak Djokovic reached the U.S. Open final on Friday and moved one step from clinching an elusive calendar Grand Slam, a group of fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium unfurled a banner with a photo of the smiling Serb. “Like It […]

September 11, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former presidents, world leaders and U.S. lawmakers reflect on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. BILL CLINTON, 42nd U.S. PRESIDENT “America will never forget those who lost their lives, those who risked or gave their own lives to save others, and those whose […]

September 11, 2021 (Reuters) – War-weary residents of Kabul expressed anger and feelings of betrayal by the United States on Saturday, as the world marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that prompted a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the toppling of its Taliban rulers. After a two-decade occupation, U.S. forces abruptly pulled out […]

The venture world is growing faster than ever, with more funding rounds, bigger funding rounds, and higher valuations than pretty much any point in history. That’s led to an exponential growth in the number of unicorns walking around, and has also forced regulators and venture law researchers to confront a slew of challenging problems. The […]

Alexander I. Platt Contributor Alexander I. Platt is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. Once upon a time, a successful startup that reached a certain maturity would “go public” — selling securities to ordinary investors, perhaps listing on a national stock exchange and taking on the privileges and obligations of […]

September 11, 2021 By Nidhi Verma and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Australia vowed on Saturday to deepen their security cooperation, especially following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, as the world marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. India and Australia, along with the United States and […]

September 11, 2021 By Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) – A senior U.S. envoy said on Saturday he had delivered reassurances to Ukraine and Poland on mitigating any threat posed by Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but that the project was now a “reality”. Amos Hochstein, the State Department’s senior adviser for energy security, told […]

September 11, 2021 BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) – The possibility of exempting “green” investments from EU deficit calculations will form part of discussions when EU budget rules are revised, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Saturday. The idea to exempt investments that would help prevent climate change is to support the bloc’s ambition to […]

September 11, 2021 TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisia’s powerful labour union, the UGTT, on Saturday called for elections to form a new parliament to debate changing the political system, an implicit rejection of any move by the president to do so directly via a referendum. President Kais Saied seized governing powers on July 25, citing an emergency […]