Felix Auger-Aliassime left Rafa Nadal’s title hopes at the ATP Finals in tatters as he beat the struggling Spaniard 6-3 6-4 in round-robin action at Turin’s Pala Alpitour Stadium on Tuesday.Nadal needs to win the year-end title for the first time in his illustrious career to have a chance of ending the season as world No 1, but he faded badly after an encouraging start. The 35-year-old was beaten by American Taylor Fritz in his opener on Sunday and is bottom of the group with one match remaining against Norway’s Casper Ruud.Nadal, the record 22-times Grand Slam champion, has now…
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One of the companies in the network, Netherfield, was involved in a complex offshore transaction that raised $50 million for a company controlled by Igor Shuvalov, one of Putin’s key advisers. The deal was reported in Barrons in 2011. The story did not name Abramovich as the owner of Netherfield, but the State Street investigators ultimately found that it belonged to him. In the months after the story ran, Netherfield was closed down, and its investments were moved to a newly formed company in the British Virgin Islands, the State Street investigators found.Cash used for the network’s investments came from…
Bus carrying nine Chinese engineers and four Pakistanis working on a hydropower project was attacked in July 2021.Islamabad, Pakistan – A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has awarded death sentences to two men accused of killing 13 people in a suicide attack last year, including nine Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project. Four Pakistani nationals were also killed in the July 2021 attack when a bus carrying them fell into a ravine following an explosion, which also left more than 20 people injured. The bus was carrying the workers to the Dasu Hydropower Project in Upper Kohistan, a region in Pakistan’s…
A Russian court has banned the use of Facebook and Instagram after labeling the activities of the apps’ parent company Meta as “extremist,” according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.The move came after the Russian prosecutor general’s office appealed to the Moscow court for Meta to be designated an “extremist organization” for allowing users in some countries to call for violence against President Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers participating in the country’s invasion of Ukraine. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, is not part of the ban. Meta declined to comment on the record.Individuals will not face criminal…
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The big tech layoffs are continuing apace, and it seems nobody is safe. Following this month’s massive staff cuts at Twitter and Meta, the New York Times reports that Amazon is now planning to let go of approximately 10,000 employees. Happy holidays, I guess.Amazon’s upcoming job cuts will reportedly impact its corporate employees, specifically its retail division, human resources, and the team working on the company’s devices (which includes voice assistant Alexa). Considering that Amazon employs over 1.5 million people across the globe, 10,000 workers laid off may not seem like a significant percentage from the company’s perspective. It amounts…
Cainiao, the logistics arm of Alibaba, is traveling far from home to seek expansion for its business. The company recently launched its first parcel distribution center in Brazil, adding to its regional network of sorting centers in Mexico and Chile, it said Monday. Alibaba’s e-commerce business in China has been hurt by a combination of a cooling economy and aggressive rivals like Pinduoduo. For the first time, the firm didn’t disclose the sales tally for its annual “Singles Day” shopping festival, which fell on November 11 and used to come with a Super Bowl-like gala featuring pop idols and Jack…
Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images)Test time. If you’re a professional drug trafficker, what’s your favorite way to move product in and around the U.S.? Is it…A) away catapult, B) dead drops over a darkened Arkansas corn field, or C) load up the ol’ The chickens brothers fry batter bucket?…Apparently the answer is D), none of the above. The real answer is: become a vendor of decorative lawn stones for Amazon.com.Yes, according to a recent report from Forbes, professional crooks are squirreling their unconventional pharmaceutical products (aka, meth) into packages that are supposed to contain nondescript landscaping products. They then “sell”…
A few big names from previous tournaments missed out, including Netherlands, Romania, Colombia and Norway.Host: Japan and South KoreaTeams: 32Format: Group stage, knockoutsMatches: 64Goals : 161Winner: BrazilRunners-up: GermanyGolden Boot: Ronaldo (Brazil) Background The world’s biggest football tournament moved to the biggest continent for the first time in its history. When entries for hosting rights were announced, Japan and South Korea had bid separately. However, they were advised and agreed on making a joint bid which was duly approved. South Korea’s bidding officials tried to include North Korea as another co-host to promote reunification but the idea was not approved. The…
Brittney Griner, the American basketball star detained in Moscow on allegations of drug smuggling, will remain in custody for at least two more months, Russian media reported Thursday.”The court granted the request of the investigation and extended the period of detention of the US citizen Griner until May 19,” a Russian court spokesperson told the Kremlin-controlled press agency TASS.The outlet Mash also reported the news, sharing a video on Telegram showing Griner, 31, walking down a hallway with two guards.A person close to the matter told BuzzFeed News Griner was OK and has been meeting regularly with her Russian legal…