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October 2, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Saturday said they charged a Saudi-born Canadian man for aiding the Islamic State militant group, alleging he tossed grenades in battle and worked with propagandists who publicized the beheading of hostages including U.S. journalist James Foley. The Department of Justice described the man, identified as Mohammed […]

October 2, 2021 By Vincent West BILBAO (Reuters) – The captain of the Afghan women’s wheelchair basketball team made her debut for her new Spanish side on Saturday to cheers and applause just over a month after fleeing Kabul when the Taliban came to power. Nilofar Bayat, 28, and her husband Ramesh Naik Zai, 27, […]

October 2, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel heaped praise on a clutch of players he brought in from the sidelines who steered the Blues to a 3-1 win over Southampton on Saturday, saying they were not suffering from the same kind of pressures as his bigger-name stars. Tuchel responded to defeats by […]

October 2, 2021 BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Thousands of people demonstrated in the main squares of the Romanian capital on Saturday against new coronavirus restrictions https://ift.tt/3DaMctF announced by the government this week to fight a steep rise in infections. Protesters, mostly not wearing face masks, gathered in University and Victory squares outside government offices, holding Romanian […]

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Emerging founders and investors in tech must be exuding extreme main character energy, because this week in tech was all about making their lives easier. AngelList announced AngelList Stack, a new suite […]

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]

October 2, 2021 By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea got back to winning ways with a 3-1 victory over Southampton to move top of the Premier League but Manchester United stuttered again at home on Saturday as they were held to a 1-1 draw by high-flying Everton. After consecutive defeats for only the second […]

October 2, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – French luxury group Hermes International (HRMS.PA) shuttled the fashion press to an airport on the outskirts of Paris for its spring ready-to-wear catwalk show, sending fitted leather crop tops, silky dresses and relaxed trousers down a circular catwalk set up in a hangar. Robot cameras whizzed around the runway […]

October 2, 2021 By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Chelsea got back to winning ways on Saturday, beating Southampton 3-1 in the Premier League thanks to late goals by Timo Werner and Ben Chilwell after the Saints were reduced to 10 men. Blues coach Thomas Tuchel overhauled his side after back-to-back defeats by Manchester City in […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Former Masters champion Danny Willett produced an impressive bogey-free round of six-under 66 to claim a three-shot lead at the end of the third round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on Saturday. The Englishman finished the day at 14-under for the tournament, ahead of overnight leader Tyrrell Hatton, who […]

October 2, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s health ministry has given its green light for people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and a flu shot at the same time, it said in a statement on Saturday. Earlier this week a British study found it was safe for people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and a […]

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  As the week closed out, we had a big SPAC deal drop that I have yet to […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) -Tesla Inc said on Saturday it had delivered 241,300 electric cars in the third quarter, beating Wall Street estimates after Chief Executive Elon Musk asked staff to “go super hardcore” to meet targets. Analysts had expected the electric-car maker to deliver 229,242 vehicles, according to Refinitiv data. Tesla said it delivered […]

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. China’s anti-competition tech crackdown continues to redefine the dynamics among the country’s internet giants, leading to collaboration between Alibaba and Tencent in the payments race. In […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – Britain’s Lizzie Deignan rode to a landmark victory in the inaugural Paris Roubaix Femmes as rain, mud and crashes made it a memorable debut for the world’s best female riders over the infamous cobbled course on Saturday. The former world champion produced a dominant ride over the 115.6km course and […]

October 2, 2021 (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida traded between $1 million and $5 million out of a bond fund into stock funds one day before Chair Jerome Powell issued a statement indicating potential policy action due to the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Clarida’s trades […]

October 2, 2021 By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Petrobras Chief Executive Officer Joaquim Silva e Luna said there was “zero” risk that the state-run Brazilian oil company would seek to artificially control fuel prices even amid growing public outrage over inflation. Petroleo Brasileiro, as the company is formally known, will have […]

October 2, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom recorded a further 121 daily COVID-19 deaths and 30,301 new cases on Saturday, both slight falls from the previous day’s tallies of 127 and 35,577 respectively, official data showed. Cases in the last seven days were up 3.1% on the week before while daily fatalities of […]

October 2, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported 25 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday against 52 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections fell to 3,312 from 3,405. Italy has registered 130,998 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe […]

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