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Teams vie for $25K in Chicago Cup

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MARGATE/FL – USA: The 2021 Chicago Cup will carry a winning purse of $25,000 and will be played on July 4. The tournament which will be hosted by Midwest Cricket Conference is under the umbrella of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA). Interested teams can go to www.cricketerbook.com and register for this tournament or they can contact the president of Midwest Cricket Conference Shiraz Najam. Speaking about this tournament the chairman of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi said: “We are all looking forward to this tournament and, we hope that by the time the tournament rolls…

Countries turn to rapid antigen tests to contain second wave of Covid-19

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ ZURICH: Countries straining to contain a second wave of Covid-19 are turning to faster, cheaper but less accurate tests to avoid the delays and shortages that have plagued efforts to diagnose and trace those infected quickly. Germany, where infections jumped by 4,122 on Tuesday to 329,453 total, has secured 9 million so-called antigen tests per month that can deliver a result in minutes and cost about 5 euros ($5.90) each. That would, in theory, cover more than 10pc of the population. The United States and Canada are…

Armenia, Azerbaijan trade accusations of breaching Karabakh ceasefire

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations of new attacks on Saturday in breach of a ceasefire deal to end nearly two weeks of heavy fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The two sides agreed to implement the ceasefire from noon (0800 GMT) on Saturday, after 11 hours of talks in Moscow, but it took only minutes after the deadline for their forces to claim new attacks. An ethnic Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan, Karabakh broke from the country’s control in a war in the 1990s that killed some 30,000…

Europe leads record one-day surge in Covid-19 cases

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ GENEVA: The World Health Organisation reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours led by a surge of infections in Europe. Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO. Global deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million. The previous WHO record for new cases was 330,340 on Oct 2. The agency reported a record 12,393 deaths on April 17. As a region, Europe is…

Trump maps return to campaign trail after White House says Covid-19 treatment complete

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ United States President Donald Trump on Friday prepared to return to the campaign trail with a pair of weekend rallies after his Covid-19 diagnosis sidelined him for a week in the race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the White House. The Republican president, who announced he had been infected with the novel coronavirus on October 2 and spent three nights in a military hospital receiving treatment, said late on Thursday he was feeling “really good” and, with a doctor’s blessing, aimed to campaign in Florida on Saturday and…

Lebanon, Israel to hold US-brokered border talks

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday they would hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, in what Washington hailed as a “historic” agreement between two sides technically still at war. The United States will act as a facilitator during the UN-backed talks to be held in the southern Lebanon border town of Naqoura, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told a news conference in Beirut, without giving a date. US envoy David Schenker said the negotiations would start in the week of Oct 12.…

Trump backpedals over racist group row, Biden blasts him as ’embarrassment’

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US President Donald Trump scrambled on Wednesday to quell an uproar over his failure to explicitly denounce white supremacist groups during his debate debacle with Joe Biden, who branded his election rival a “national embarrassment”. The bitter adversaries returned to the campaign trail one day after their off-the-rails showdown in Cleveland made headlines less for the substance than for its unrestrained chaos. The toxic shout fest — with Trump constantly interrupting and Biden launching personal attacks — even prompted the overseeing Commission on Presidential Debates to announce it would be imposing new…

Death toll rises to 39 as fighting between Armenia, Azerbaijan enters second day

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Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh said on Monday 15 more of its fighters have been killed in a flare-up of a territorial dispute, bringing the death toll to 39 as the fighting entered a second day. World leaders have urged a halt to the fighting between Azerbaijan and the Armenian rebels after clashes erupted on Sunday, raising the spectre of an all-out conflict that could draw in regional powers — Russia and Turkey. Ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked since the early 1990s in a…

US President Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ United States President Donald Trump again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 3 presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said on Wednesday at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer of power. “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.” It is highly unusual that a sitting president would express less than complete confidence in the American democracy’s electoral…

US To Ban Download Of WeChat And TikTok For National Security

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ The United States (US) government has once again announced a series of shutdowns on Chinese applications WeChat and TikTok. Initially, in August this year, two different executive orders were issued to shut down WeChat and TikTok. Donald Trump’s orders suggested that TikTok sell its US shares to a US company within 45 days, otherwise, it would be shut down. Similarly, WeChat was told to sell its US assets to a US technology company within 45 days, otherwise, it would be shut down. Following the US President’s threat,…