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September 4, 2021 (Reuters) -Three Taliban sources said the Islamist militia had on Friday seized the Panjshir valley north of Kabul, the last province of Afghanistan holding out against it, although a resistance leader denied it had fallen. “By the grace of Allah Almighty, we are in control of the entire Afghanistan. The troublemakers have […]

Seksom Suriyapa was seemingly destined to land at a venture firm. A Stanford Law graduate, he began his career at two blue-chip investment banks before joining the cybersecurity company McAfee as a senior corp dev employee, later logging six years at the human resources software company SuccessFactors and in 2018, landing at Twitter, where until […]

September 4, 2021 By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – World number three Stefanos Tsitsipas was defiant as his Grand Slam hopes evaporated on Friday, saying “everyone suddenly is against me” and insisting he was innocent of wrongdoing in a bitter saga over bathroom breaks at the U.S. Open. The Greek unwillingly assumed the role […]

September 4, 2021 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy created the fewest jobs in seven months in August as hiring in the leisure and hospitality sector stalled amid a resurgence in COVID-19 infections, which weighed on demand at restaurants and hotels. But other details of the Labor Department’s closely watched employment report […]

September 3, 2021 By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman testified at R. Kelly’s sex abuse trial on Friday that she reached a $200,000 settlement with the R&B singer after she contracted herpes. Prosecutors have been trying to show jurors in Brooklyn federal court that Kelly was careless toward alleged victims of his […]

September 4, 2021 By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – During a 2016 presidential debate, then-candidate Donald Trump made a statement that seemed brash at the time: If he were elected and got the chance to nominate justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion would be overturned. By this […]

September 4, 2021 By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -California Republicans will launch a campaign on Friday to convince conservatives to trust the state’s mail-in balloting system, hoping to boost turnout in the election to recall Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, party officials said. The party will roll out videos on its digital platforms showing Republican […]

September 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday he would travel to Qatar on Sunday to meet with the country’s leaders and thank them for their help with evacuees from Afghanistan, and later go to Germany for a ministerial meeting. Blinken told a news conference at the State Department […]

September 4, 2021 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar De La Hoya is hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection and has withdrawn from his fight next weekend in Los Angeles, the 48-year-old said in a video shot from a hospital bed and posted to social media on Friday. The Sept. 11 fight against former UFC champion Vitor […]

September 4, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – One of the two victims of a fatal crash involving a Tesla car in Texas had a blood-alcohol level that exceeded the legal driving limit, according to an autopsy report. No one was found in the driver’s seat in the April accident where a Model S caught fire […]

September 3, 2021 By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fearless Carlos Alcaraz would not be distracted by a Stefanos Tsitsipas mid-match bathroom break holding his focus to upset the Greek third seed 6-3 6-4 7-6 (2) 0-6 7-6 (5) on Friday and advancing to the fourth round of the U.S. Open. Having assumed the […]

September 3, 2021 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy will grow 7.2% in 2021, analysts said in an Argentine central bank poll published on Friday, an improvement on their forecast last month of 6.8% growth. Inflation in 2021 is seen at 48.4%, 0.2 points percentage above last month’s estimate, according to 42 respondents to the […]

September 3, 2021 By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are girding their portfolios for potential stock market volatility, even as equities hover near fresh highs after logging seven straight months of gains. Utilities are the S&P 500’s best-performing sector so far this quarter with a 10.2% gain. They have been followed by […]

September 3, 2021 By Arshad Mohammed, Patricia Zengerle and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress is likely to finance U.N. and other agencies providing humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan but there is virtually no chance it will directly fund a new Taliban-led government, congressional aides said on Friday. The United States has been a […]

September 3, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – German Angelique Kerber triumphed in the battle of the former champions on Friday, downing Sloane Stephens 5-7 6-2 6-3 to reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2018. The 16th-seeded hadn’t taken a set off of Stephens in their last five meetings […]

September 3, 2021 By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners. In the weeks since the Taliban’s swift takeover of […]

September 3, 2021 MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United got their FA Women’s Super League season off to a flying start with a 2-0 win over Reading thanks to a goal in each half from Kirsty Hanson and Ona Batlle.      Hanson got the first goal of the season six minutes before the break […]

September 3, 2021 By Nick Said CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Striker Kelechi Iheanacho scored twice as Nigeria defeated Liberia 2-0 to make a winning start to their 2022 World Cup Group C qualification campaign, while there was also success for Cameroon and Tunisia on Friday. Nigeria were heavy favourites for victory in Lagos and took […]

September 3, 2021 By Karl Plume and P.J. Huffstutter (Reuters) – Much of Louisiana Gulf Coast grain exporting capacity remained shuttered on Friday, as flooding and power outages from Hurricane Ida continue to cripple exports from the busiest U.S. grain shipping port, a state official said. Crop exporters are anxious for shipping to resume as […]

September 3, 2021 (Reuters) – American Airlines said on Friday it would not provide special leave from next month to unvaccinated employees who have to quarantine due to COVID-19. Unvaccinated workers will have to use their sick time or medical leave if they miss work due to the disease, it said. “Given there is an […]