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☆ Factbox: World Cup 2022: which major football players are missing FIFA tournament?
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Alan Baldwin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Nov 14 (Reuters) - Following is a list of players who have been ruled out or are doubtful for the Nov. 20-Dec. 18 World Cup through injury. The 29-year-old resumed training but on Oct. 31 his agent said the midfielder would not return to action for Juventus nor the world champions before the World Cup. PEDRO NETO (PORTUGAL)The 22-year-old Wolverhampton Wanderers winger will undergo surgery on an ankle injury sustained against West Ham United in October. BOUBACAR KAMARA (FRANCE)The Aston Villa midfielder suffered a knee ligament injury in September that will keep him out until after the World Cup. SADIO MANE (SENEGAL)Sadio Mane has been named in Senegal's squad for the World Cup despite suffering an injury playing for Bayern Munich.
☆ China's alarming decline could tank the stock market, take down the global economy, and spark a dangerous showdown with the US
  + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
In the Western capitals and boardrooms, it appears the horror of Beijing's transformation has finally settled in, and the lure of China's economic future is fading. Economic dangerIf you want a clue to just how far China's economy has fallen, look no further than Beijing's attempts to hide information about the country's growth. Beyond the short-term signs of trouble, there are more enduring signs pointing to China's economic distress. That's a big if, and even if Beijing is successful, the slow-moving blob of debt will choke off economic growth for years to come. Xi has tightened his grip on China's economy and government from education to public health.
☆ Chelsea's Potter backs Loftus-Cheek for England's World Cup squad
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Chelsea head coach Graham Potter has backed Ruben Loftus-Cheek for a place in the England squad at next month's World Cup in Qatar. "He has really impressed me, Ruben, on and off the pitch," Potter told reporters ahead of Chelsea's Champions League clash at Salzburg. Loftus-Cheek was part of the England squad that reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and he said going to Qatar "would mean the world" to him. "As a player, after going into the 2018 World Cup, you see your trajectory to go upward and to be at the next World Cup if everything goes well," Loftus-Cheek told reporters. "If I go to the World Cup, it would mean the world, but that is not at the forefront of my mind at the moment."
☆ The Phillies Turned It Around in June—and Could Knock Out the Braves in October
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Phillies celebrate winning Game 1 of the NLDS against the Braves. The Philadelphia Phillies on Friday afternoon will host a playoff game for the first time since 2011, the day Ryan Howard was helped from the field at Citizens Bank Park, the sort of imagery that tends to stick with a franchise. At the conclusion of that National League Division Series, at what would become the end of a glorious half-decade for the franchise, Howard had torn his Achilles tendon.
☆ 'She-Hulk' shows off its superpower and Achilles heel in a truly weird finale (SPOILERS)
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers about “She-Hulk’s” season finale. CNN —“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” revealed both its superpower and Achilles heel in the season finale: It’s a TV show for people who watch too much TV in general and too much of Marvel’s output in particular. Designed to test the parameters of how far Marvel could go with this sort of exercise, “She-Hulk” clearly delivered an unabashed out-there comedy. It’s tempting to credit “She-Hulk” for taking chances, but frankly, that has clearly been the plan with Marvel’s expansion into streaming for some time now. Part of the show’s legacy, as noted, will be the way it reintroduced Daredevil.
☆ Analysis: Saudi oil power play bruises U.S. ties but won't break them
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Aziz El Yaakoubi Ghaida Ghantous | Aziz El Yaakoubi | Ghaida Ghantous | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives U.S. President Joe Biden at Al Salman Palace upon his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. Still, the U.S.-Saudi rift is widening as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, widely known as MbS, flags his country's -- and his own -- importance on the world stage. "He has made a great effort since day 1 to signal to the U.S. that he wants excellent ties. Prince Mohammed, the kingdom's de facto ruler, is aware of Riyadh's oil market power and position as a counterweight to Iran, and may stand firm in the face of U.S. criticism. It says it faces a threat from Iran and its proxies, especially after 2019 attacks that temporarily hit Saudi oil output and shook energy markets.
☆ Osaka pulls out in Tokyo with abdominal pain
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
"I am really sorry that I am not able to compete today," said the four-time Grand Slam champion, who won the tournament when it was last held in 2019 in her hometown of Osaka. "It's an honour to be able to play at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in front of the amazing fans here in Japan. This has and always will be a special tournament for me and I wish I could have stepped on court today, but my body won't let me." Brazil's Haddad Maia will face either fourth seed Veronika Kudermetova or Mexican qualifier Fernanda Contreras Gomez in the quarter-finals. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ The U.S. and its allies are joining forces on chips. That could stop China reaching the next level
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
Leading chipmaking nations including the U.S. are forming alliances, in part to secure their semiconductor supply chain and to stop China from reaching the cutting-edge of the industry, analysts told CNBC. But the semiconductor supply chain is complex — it includes areas ranging from design to packaging to manufacturing and the tools that are required to do that. "The other geopolitical significance is just related to Taiwan's central role in the semiconductor supply chain. Alliances being built that exclude ChinaBecause of the complexity of the chip supply chain, no country can go it alone. One is about bringing together countries, each with their "comparative advantages," to "string together alliances that can develop secure chips," Kotasthane said.
☆ What's next now that Letitia James has sued Donald Trump? A slow-motion, 'eye-glazing' battle of lawyers, experts
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
NY AG Letitia James sued Donald Trump, his three eldest kids, and Trump Organization on Wednesday. "This is going to be an eye-glazing battle" of experts and lawyers, before the lawsuit even goes to trial, one ex-prosecutor, Armen Morian, said of what's to come. He prosecuted the New York AG's case against Hank Greenberg, the one-time CEO of insurance giant AIG. That's the Manhattan judge who repeatedly ruled against Trump in the two-year lead-in to the AG's lawsuit. "She will pay for bringing such an aggressive, gargantuan, and unwieldy case," Morian predicted, "assuring that this case will move at a snail's pace, to the defendants' advantage."
☆ Patagonia's CEO gets candid: How sustainability, diversity, and social justice guide the beloved brand
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
As CEO of Patagonia, Ryan Gellert wrestles with a paradox: The outdoor-gear maker's good works, philanthropy, and intentions are still not enough to justify its existence. To Gellert, who took over from the widely respected Rose Marcario, the company could always be doing more. And we need business to step up. Patagonia really struggled in Europe, and that never made sense to me. One of the things that I love more than anything about Patagonia is that we are an unapologetically for-profit business.
☆ 'It's huge, beyond anything in my career': Publishing industry insiders explain how TikTok has sent book sales surging and how they're trying to tap into the BookTook phenomenon
  + stars: | 2022-03-01 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
In 2020 and 2021, book sales surged, reaching a near 20-year peak, according to industry data. 2021 sales of Hoover's books were up 650% over 2020 sales, with 1.9 million copies sold, according to data from NPD BookScan, the largest book sales tracker in the US. Since mid-2020, TikTok has been the driving force of an unprecedented surge in book sales, industry insiders say. The strategy of marketers has always been to push and advertise newer books, industry experts said, and those usually sell better. Then, around Halloween 2021, sales rose steadily to about 2,000 copies a week.
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