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Astara, Aug 1, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Friday stressed the need for implementing Astara railway wharf project in the vicinity of Azerbaijan Republic, saying that necessary consultations will be held with the officials of the neighboring state.

MIAMI (AP) — A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday.

Protect And Serve Laurence Ralph | Foreign Affairs | 30th July 2020 Perspective. America ranks just above the Democratic Republic of the Congo and just below Iraq for the incidence of people killed by police. There were 46.6 such killings per ten million residents in America last year, compared with 47.8 in the DRC and 45.1 in Iraq. Countries with levels …

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday delayed the release of a 2016 deposition from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, The New York Times reports.

This news of the potential acquisition of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, comes as President Trump on Friday said that the U.S. may ban the video app. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo previously said the U.S. is "certainly looking at" a potential ban of TikTok due to national security concerns.

"We're looking at TikTok," Trump told reporters on Friday. "We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. Читать дальше...

1. Sources - MLB commissioner warns of shutdown if coronavirus isn't better managed  ESPN
2. MLB coronavirus outbreak: Cardinals delayed after positive tests, Phillies schedule shifts again  Yahoo Sports
3. Phillies Talk podcast: How and when can Phillies make up all these games?  ProBasketballTalk
4. Source -- Marlins to transport players, coaches with coronavirus back to Miami  ESPN
5. Pandemic causing havoc in MLBs first weeks | Lifestyle  El Paso Inc.
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NEW YORK — Big Tech continues to steamroll through the pandemic, and strong gains for some of the market’s most influential companies on Friday helped Wall Street close out its fourth straight winning month.

Microsoft a leading buyer, report New York Times and Bloomberg as Trump likely to order ByteDance to sell or face a ban on its video app.

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As of Friday, Gauteng still has the highest number of cases with 175 272, followed by the Western Cape with 95 223 and Eastern Cape with 77 938.

Joneshia Wilkerson, 23, was arrested on suspicion of failure to return a leased vehicle and fraudulent use of a credit card.

Shortened schedules will make it near-impossible to find 84 teams with .500 records and six wins

A New Zealand woman says she has tested positive for Covid-19 after flying from Auckland to Sydney just over a week ago. The woman - who didn't want to be named - took off on July 20 aboard Air NZ flight ...

The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl, and Melissa McBride, who plays Carol, had a playful fall-out after she took a brutal swipe at their character's relationship

Pop royalty Beyonce on Friday released her much-hyped visual album “Black Is King,” an aesthetically ambitious video billed as a companion to her 2019 album of songs inspired by Disney’s live-action remake of “The Lion King.” The highly stylized visual narrative released on the Disney Plus streaming platform runs an hour and 25 minutes and, […]

Battletoads, that most nineties of franchises, is returning to the gaming scene in August after lying dormant for a quarter of a century. Specifically, Microsoft and developer Dlala Studios is finally releasing Battletoads 2020. If you’re a youngster and don’t know what you’re in for, I recommend taking a look at the trailer: The new Battletoads game was revealed, rather unexpectedly, at the 2018 Microsoft E3 show. Fans have been calling for an HD remake for years — GameInformer added it to a list of series that deserve a revival in 2010. Читать дальше...

A Queens cop is facing a misconduct charge after a shady gun arrest during a car stop, according to cops and police sources. Police Officer Kevin Martin, 43, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Thursday and cut free with a desk appearance ticket for official misconduct and tampering with evidence, according to police and prosecutors. Police...

Inconsistencies in anglicised names of 400 places identified

A NEW Animal Crossing New Horizons August update is on its way which will update the list of Bugs and Fish available to catch after the game's big ACNH Dream patch.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer, the author of the book “The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World,” and Sputnik News analyst and producer Nicole Roussell.

1. WHO reports record daily rise in global coronavirus cases: Live  Al Jazeera English
2. Vietnam records first Covid-19 deaths  BBC News
3. Vietnam reports first-ever coronavirus death after 99 days without any cases  New York Post
4. Vietnam Records First COVID-19 Death After Virus Re-emerges: State Media  The New York Times
5. Vietnam reports 1st ever virus death after renewed outbreak  ABC News
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The Premier League campaign is done and dusted for another season...

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In what’s shaping up to be the strangest weekend yet since the coronavirus outbreak forced American theaters to close, the biggest release is Beyoncé’s visual album, “Black Is King,” a visionary feature-length companion to her 2019 album, in the tradition of “Lemonade.” A number of studio movies — including Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — had tentatively […]