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The Green Mile actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have been granted Greek citizenship. The couple were snapped on Saturday night with the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, holding up their new Greek passports. According to the post from Mitsotakis, ‘@ritawilson @tomhanks are now proud Greek citizens!’ Read more: Tom Hanks has no respect for those who won’t wear masks Hanks and Wilson have long been regular visitors to Greece – Wilson’s mother is Greek, and was raised on the… Source link

Monday’s main evening slate on Yahoo has already been dealt a significant blow with two games being canceled because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within the Marlins. Not only will the Marlins not play the Orioles, but the matchup between the Phillies (who just played the Marlins) and the Yankees has also been canceled. Let’s dig into the remaining options and discuss who might be worth considering for your entry. Pitchers The starting pitching options for this slate are pretty thin. With teams… Source link

Reports reveal that Yahoo has apparently suspended the comments section under its articles. It was a bold move as the website was amongst the few online broadcast hubs where people could freely discuss and express their opinions about reported articles and current affairs. While this move was praised by many, some are disappointed by the actions. Others are wondering about “What happened to Yahoo comments section?” “Did Yahoo stop comments?” If you are wondering the same, do not… Source link

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Young Catalans should stop partying to help halt a surge in new coronavirus cases or local authorities may have to reimpose harsh restrictions, the leader of the northeastern Spanish region said on Monday. Catalonia is at the heart of a rebound in coronavirus cases in Spain that started after a nationwide lockdown was lifted last month. France has asked its citizens not to travel there and Germany and Belgium have done the same for part of the region. “If we continue with… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Taiwan’s equity benchmark broke a record that stood for three decades, helped by the biggest surge in years for the economy’s biggest stock. The Taiex closed 2.3% higher Monday as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. soared the 10% daily limit. The $35 billion addition to its market capitalization makes TSMC the 12th most valuable stock worldwide, ahead of U.S. retail giant Walmart Inc. The chip producer for the likes of Apple Inc. wields so much influence over Taiwan’s… Source link

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei’s global ambitions are marked in bricks and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas from European cities. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, the operator of short video app TikTok, has plastered his Beijing headquarters with posters including a cover of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s book “How Google Works”, and has long said he will build a global firm that can compete with… Source link

Former First Lady Michelle Obama planned to meet with NBA and WNBA players on Sunday afternoon to talk about voting, Oklahoma City Thunder star and president of the Players Association Chris Paul said. Obama’s push on voting came just 100 days out from election day in November, part of the “When We All Vote” campaign. She announced on Sunday that they have already registered 100,000 new voters through that campaign, and hope to double that number before November. “We’re gonna talk about… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The dollar extended its recent slide and gold rose to a record high as investors mulled simmering Sino-American tensions, the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting and signs the virus spread in the U.S. may be slowing. Global stocks were mixed. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell as much as 0.8% to its lowest in about a year and a half. Shares fluctuated in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia, while U.S. and European futures climbed after last week’s declines. A 10% surge in Taiwan… Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will shift his focus to American energy dominance during a stop in Texas later this week that will include his first visit to an oil rig. During the stop Wednesday at Double Eagle Energy in the west Texas city of Midland, Trump will discuss how the U.S. is achieving energy dominance by cutting regulations, simplifying permitting and encouraging private investment in energy infrastructure, the White House said. Trump will also tour an oil rig in… Source link

When JP Morgan’s EMEA head of oil and gas research said last month that this crisis was fundamentally no different from previous crises, he was right – at least in a way. But in some ways, he was wrong, because it is not just out of a sense for the dramatic that most observers are calling the current crisis unprecedented.  This crisis will change the industry in ways no other crisis has done. Oil sands on the path to diversification Canada’s oil sands have been among the worst affected… Source link