December 4, 2023
When Yoshinobu Yamamoto hits the market this winter following his posting by the Pacific League’s Orix Buffaloes, MLB teams expect his contract will easily surpass the $155 million Masahiro Tanaka received, currently the largest for a Japanese player ahead of his American debut. “He may be the best pitcher we’ve ever seen come out of
READ MOREYoshinobu Yamamoto will be allowed to move to a Major League Baseball team under the player posting system, the Orix Buffaloes said Sunday after it lost Game 7 of the Japan Series to the Hanshin Tigers. The ace pitcher has been widely reported ready to move to MLB and is expected to be a top
READ MOREA caravan of at least hundreds of migrants left from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Sunday, heading for the U.S. southern border. The smaller caravan plans to join a larger one that left six days ago and is currently stopped about 25 miles (40 km) north in the town of Huixtla. Organizers said
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SEVERAL blue economy bills are now pending deliberation in Congress, and all such bills carry the objective of adopting the blue economy as a framework for sustainable and safe use and development of marine wealth within the Philippines’ maritime zones as a pillar of national economy and patrimony. The rest of the statements on the
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This incredible map reveals the newly-discovered route that early humans took when they left Africa for Eurasia 80,000 years ago. Scientists have long believed that when the sea level was low, Homo Sapiens used a southern crossing via the Red Sea from the horn of Africa, to get to south-western Arabia. But a new study
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WASHINGTON: Four months after barely avoiding a catastrophic default, the world’s largest economy is once again on the verge of a major fiscal crisis. President Joe Biden’s Democrats are engaged in a bitter feud with Republican rivals in Congress over spending bills, which, if not passed into law soon, may trigger a government shutdown. US
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Ozempic drug to treat diabetes. Courtesy: Ozempic In their most recent earnings reports, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly proved why they are the undisputed heavyweights in the prizefight for control of the rapidly growing weight-loss medications market. Beyond staggering sales figures for Novo’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Lilly’s Mounjaro, news of a study showing Wegovy
READ MOREAuthorities on Sunday found 53 people apparently headed for Germany crammed into a small truck that was stopped in the Austrian city of Linz. Four men were in the cabin of the vehicle when it was stopped on Sunday morning, one of whom fled on foot after getting out of the vehicle, police said. He
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Cab aggregator Uber has launched a new ride-sharing option for India called ‘Group Rides’, which allows customers to share rides and split the fare with up to three co-passengers headed to the same destination. The ride-sharing feature comes more than three years after Uber had suspended its Pool service in India in light of the
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Editor’s note: A version of the story appears in CNN’s “Meanwhile in the Middle East” newsletter, which covers the region’s most important events three times a week. Sign here. Istanbul CNN — President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan swore to new office over the weekend, inaugurating what he called “a new period of glory” for
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