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March 6 (Reuters) – Russian forces opened fire at a protest against their occupation of the southern Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka on Sunday, wounding five people, Ukrainian news agency Interfax Ukraine said, citing eyewitnesses. Around 2,000 people had taken to the streets of Nova Kakhovka to show their opposition to the invasion by waving Ukrainian flags and calling on Russian forces to leave, the agency reported. Similar protests were staged in other occupied areas, it said. (Reporting by… Source link

The ongoing MLB lockout has left baseball frozen and uncertain in days when it should be thawing out and looking toward the glory of opening day. It has also left the winter’s business unfinished and in a state of suspended animation. Whenever a deal is struck and players are summoned to spring training, there will be no time for picking up steam. Teams will have to be filled in at warp speed. Despite a flurry of activity prior to the lockout, there are a lot of big names without teams and… Source link

CLEVELAND — Perhaps no player can make a bigger jump in profile over the next three months than Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine. He’s a two-time All-Star and for the first time in his career, on a bona fide playoff team with aspirations on making noise beyond the first round. He and DeMar DeRozan rank as one of the league’s best duos, a deadly perimeter 1-2 punch that will create matchup problems across the board. And he’ll be a free agent in July — an unrestricted free agent. A big… Source link

Former NBA star J.R. Smith, who is now a freshman golfer at North Carolina A&T, is entering the NIL game.  Smith signed a deal with Excel Sports for NIL representation, his agent Lance Young told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. It’s a first for a high-profile former professional athlete and he’s gained “significant NIL interest among golfing equipment and clothing manufacturers and video game companies,” his agent said.  Smith, 36, played in the NBA for 16 years and retired after the Los Angeles… Source link

Did you know that Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady co-founded an NFT agency? Well he did! It’s called Autograph, and you won’t be surprised to find out that it’s doing pretty well.  The company told TechCrunch on Wednesday that it had just completed its Series B funding round and had raised $170 million from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among several others. Both firms have been investing in cryptocurrency related projects and Autograph is the… Source link

Moscow, Amsterdam, January 20, 2022 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that the Russian credit rating agency ACRA has assigned Yandex a first-time long-term issuer credit rating of ‘АA+(RU)’ with a Stable Outlook. According to ACRA’s published report, the key rating drivers included, among others, Yandex’s leading position in number of the key markets… Source link

A U.S. government agency created to counter Chinese infrastructure-fueled influence across the world is ramping up international vaccine distribution efforts, Yahoo Finance has learned. Coming on the heels of the U.S.-hosted COVID-19 summit, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on Wednesday announced that it would be providing $383 million in financing to help nine countries secure vaccine doses. “The President is leading the world to elevate the world’s ambition to end… Source link

Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo SEOUL, Sept 14 (Reuters) – South Korea’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google 207 billion won ($176.64 million), saying the U.S. technology giant abused its dominant market position to restrict competition in the mobile operating system market. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) investigated Google for allegedly blocking local smartphone… Source link

Our look at four topics — players, issues, numbers, trends — that are impacting and, in some cases, changing the game. Four Quarters First Quarter: All-NBA team predictions All-NBA First Team F: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee F: Jimmy Butler, Miami C: Nikola Jokic, Denver G: Stephen Curry, Golden State G: Damian Lillard, Portland Reasoning: Jokic was certainly an obvious selection, along with Curry and even Antetokounmpo. Curry’s second half of the season is one of the best displays we’ve… Source link

Dallas, June 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qamar Zaman, SEO Consultant at KISS PR, has shared the recent core web vitals update in a recently published blog post. He has also published a comprehensive guide on how website owners can survive Google’s Core Web Vitals Update (Page Experience Update), happening less than two weeks from now. The most recent update is about Google lowering the threshold for a good core web vitals score for Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). “Search Engine… Source link