Super 6 Partners with Prostate FC, the new football programme of Prostate Cancer UK, taking on the most common cancer in men together.The Super 6 team are proud to join Prostate FC – the biggest team in football taking the most common cancer in men, and we’re calling on fans, clubs and everyone involved in football to get involved. Save lives from the pitch, the sofa and the standsOne man dies every 45 minutes from prostate cancer. That’s a man from each team by the end of the match.That’s why Prostate Cancer UK have launched their new home of football…
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Lahore High Court order defuses a surge in violence that saw supporters of the ex-PM clashing with security forces.A Pakistani high court has ordered the police to postpone an operation to arrest Imran Khan to Friday, defusing a surge in violence that saw supporters of the former prime minister fighting pitched battles with security forces. Khan’s aide Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said the Lahore High Court extended an order to halt the police operation for another day. State Information Minister Amir Mir confirmed the court order. The court also ordered Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to not hold its planned…
Source says Taiwan firm will invest more than $200m in the new AirPod plant in the southern Indian state of Telangana.Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has won an order to make AirPods for Apple and plans to build a factory in India to produce the wireless earphones, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters news agency. The deal will see Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and assembler of about 70 percent of all iPhones, become an AirPod supplier for the first time and underlines efforts by the key Apple supplier to further diversify production away from…
PHOENIX (AP) — Mike Trout had three hits and three RBIs, and the United States used a stellar night from its deep bullpen to beat Colombia 3-2 and advance to the quarterfinals. Mexico and the U.S. both finished with a 3-1 record in Group C to advance. Mexico gets the top seed because it beat the U.S. 11-5 on Sunday. Trout singled in the third, bringing home Mookie Betts and giving the U.S. a 1-0 lead. Colombia bounced back quickly, taking a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third on Gio Urshela’s sacrifice fly and an RBI double from…
Chinese billionaire and CCP critic is accused of pocketing investment funds from his thousands of followers online.Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire known for his opposition to Beijing and ties to the administration of former US President Donald Trump, has been charged in the United States with defrauding investors out of $1bn. Guo, also known as Ho Wan Kwok and Miles Guo, was arrested in New York on Wednesday over an alleged conspiracy involving the misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars obtained from his thousands of followers online, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Guo is accused…
Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, ex-governor of Tamaulipas, is accused of using $3.5m in bribes to buy property in the US.A former Mexican presidential candidate has been sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, after officials accused him of spending millions of dollars in bribes on property purchases in the United States. Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the 66-year-old former governor of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico, received the sentence on Wednesday in a US District Court for southern Texas. Judge Rolando Olvera also ordered the ex-governor to surrender a condominium he purchased in Port Isabel, a coastal city in Texas. He had faced…
Minister says the decision to sever relations with Taiwan is rooted in ‘pragmatism, not ideology’ as the country endures economic hardships.The Honduran foreign minister has said on Wednesday that a decision to pursue diplomatic relations with China and ditch ties with Taiwan was motivated by economic interests rather than ideology. Speaking to the Canal 5 television channel, Eduardo Enrique Reina said that rising debt and the need for more investments motivated the decision, which was announced on Tuesday by Honduran President Xiomara Castro. “The global situation is complicated. We need to open up,” Reina said. “We need investment. We need…
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Frances Tiafoe defeated 10th-seeded Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4 Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open. The 14th-seeded American ended the 2021 champion’s eight-match winning streak to earn his first semi berth in a Masters 1000 tournament. “Super happy about today,” Tiafoe said on court. “I’ve been playing really well all week. Let’s keep it going.” Tiafoe hit 22 winners and had just nine unforced errors. He punctuated the victory, which was briefly interrupted by rain, by serving a love game. “I played really quick, really close to the baseline and I was…
Shares of Swiss bank lose more than a quarter of their value in one day, dragging down European and US markets.Shares in Credit Suisse have plunged and dragged down other major European lenders as fears about deeper problems in the world banking system have spread in the wake of bank failures in the United States. Credit Suisse shares lost more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday, hitting a record low after the Swiss bank’s biggest shareholder, the Saudi National Bank, told news outlets that it would not inject more money into the bank, which was beset by problems…
A judge in the US state of Texas is hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups that seeks to ban a widely used abortion pill across the United States in the latest legal battle over reproductive health care in the country. US federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative appointee of former President Donald Trump, will consider whether to ban mifepristone, an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration more than 20 years ago. The Alliance for Defending Freedom and other groups asked Kacsmaryk on Wednesday for an immediate order that would revoke or suspend the drug’s…