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Oil falls as OPEC+ Teachers protest News in brief set to boost across US over re- u Thousands output Gold retreats Microsoft nears big bet on opening schools in German of children children in northern Reuters | LONDON pandemic Germany start new became the il prices fell yesterday from record peak TikTok after LinkedIn deal schoolyear first in Europe Oon fears about the eco- to begin a new nomic fallout from rising school year on Monday, with the rest of the country watching COVID-19 cases around the tion and allegations of political anxiously as full-time classes began after months of curtailed globe and on oversupply About 11pc of US bias roil social media. Trump sets Sept hours over the coronavirus pandemic. Masks will be a daily accessory worries as OPEC and its as dollar firms • Increased oversight costs ac- for some of the 150,000 children returning to school in the Mecklenburg-Western allies are set to wind back adults use TikTok counted for much of the 10-per- 15 deadline for Pomerania region, Germany’s first state to reopen the school gates after the output cuts in August. at least once per centage-point drop in gross summer holidays. Afghan soldiers arrive during an attack on a prison in Jalalabad. Pictures courtery of Daily sabah Brent crude fell 18 cents, week, versus 49pc for profit margins for Facebook TikTok sale u Britain is on track to deliver half a UK says or 0.4 per cent, to $43.34 YouTube and 62pc and Alphabet over the last 3-1/2 AFP News Reuters | Chicago million COVID tests a day by the end of October rapid tests a barrel by 1123 GMT, and years, Refinitiv data showed. and new 90-minute tests will allow the government to US West Texas Intermedi- for Facebook, showed “Does Microsoft really want S President Donald eachers and support help accelerate a survey last month accelerate that target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock 500,000 tests ate (WTI) crude was down to own an app that breeds con- UTrump said Monday that Tstaff at more than 35 said yesterday. Millions of COVID-19 tests able to detect 19 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at by tech consultancy spiracy theories in tweens?” popular Chinese-owned vid- IS storm Afghan jail school districts across the the virus within 90 minutes will be rolled out to British a day target $40.06. Vorhaus Advisors. said Hank Green, YouTube star eo app TikTok would be “out United States yesterday are hospitals, care homes and laboratories to boost capacity in the coming months, In the last month, Brent and chief executive of educa- of business” in the United protesting the re-opening Hancock said. They will comprise 5.8 million tests using DNA and 450,000 swab has been trading in a range tional media company Com- States if it did not sell its US Hundreds of prisoners freed, atleast 29 killed of schools while COVID-19 tests. between $41 and almost Reuters | Oakland, California plexly. He said TikTok removes operations by September 15, is surging in many parts of $45. content to maintain “a certain preferably to an American talks were slated to start in labad. Assadullah Orakzai was the country. u India’s interior minister and the chiefs of two big states have been OPEC+ members have icrosoft Corp’s po- feel”, and could face public buyer. IS’s news outlet March, but were delayed amid involved in several deadly at- They are demanding been cutting output since tential acquisition challenges over such decisions “I set a date of around Sep- • political infighting in Kabul tacks against Afghan security in-person classes not be hospitalized with COVID-19 as the May by 9.7 million barrels of short-video app more often under a bigger name tember 15, at which point it’s Amaq said its fighters and as an agreed prisoner swap forces, the National Director of held until scientific data country’s daily cases topped 50,000 M for a fifth straight day yesterday. The per day (bpd). From August, TikTok carries myriad risks, such as Microsoft. going to be out of business in were behind the rai dragged on. Security said Saturday. supports it, safety protocols country reported 52,972 new confirmed cuts will officially taper to Gold bars are seen at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant ‘Oegussa’ thrusting it into the politically At $1.55 trillion, Microsoft the United States,” he told Both Kabul and the Taliban Nangarhar province has seen such as lower class sizes and infections in the past 24 hours, taking the 7.7 million bpd until Decem- in Vienna, Austria fraught social media business is the world’s second-largest reporters. have signalled they could be some deadly IS attacks this year virus testing are established, AFP| Kabul total to 1.8 million - the third highest in the world after the United States and ber. and Sino-US conflict amid in- company by market capitali- “It’ll close down on Sep- ready to start talks after Eid, including a May 12 suicide and schools are staffed with Russian oil and gas con- Reuters said on Sunday the U.S. is in creased scrutiny of big-tech zation after Apple Inc but has tember 15th unless Micro- and the Afghan government on bomb that killed 32 mourners adequate numbers of coun- Brazil - data from India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed yesterday. densate output increased to a new phase of the outbreak, companies. in recent years faced soft or somebody else is t least 29 people have Sunday offered to extend the at a funeral for a police com- selors and nurses, according With 771 new deaths, the COVID-19 disease has now killed 38,135 people in India, 9.8 m bpd on Aug. 1-2 from old hit a record high yes- with infections “extraordinar- But the deal could help less criticism than able to buy it and work out been killed in a raid ceasefire. mander. to a website set up for the including that of a minister on Sunday in the most-populous state of Uttar Pradesh. 9.37 m bpd in July, a source Gterday as fears over the ily widespread” in rural areas Microsoft build on its $27 peers over anti- a deal.” on an Afghan prison The insurgents have not for- The IS attacks continue demonstrations. A u familiar with data said on economic fallout from rising as well as cities. billion purchase of LinkedIn trust, data protec- claimed by the Islamic State mally responded. despite government officials On Twitter, the Milwau- The government will act if the We will act Monday. coronavirus cases bolstered Weighing on bullion, the to become a bigger player tion and China group, officials said yesterday, claiming last year that the kee Teachers’ Education As- coronavirus spreads through London as Ongoing attack if virus spreads However, oil prices found its safe-haven appeal, before dollar index .DXY was up 0.3% in internet advertising now projects. as the country waited to see if a group’s Afghan branch had sociation showed protesters it has done in other parts of Britain, junior in London, says some support after a survey inching lower as an uptick in against its rivals, making assets dominated by Facebook Inc deals since Satya Nadella be- government ceasefire with the In Jalalabad, Nangarhar gov- been completely defeated in making fake gravestones business minister Nadhim Zahawi said yesterday. “If we UK showed that manufacturing the dollar fuelled some prof- priced in the U.S. unit more and Alphabet Inc’s Google. Nadella’s deals came chief executive in 2014, Taliban would rupture after its ernor’s spokesman Attaullah Nangarhar. that said “Here lies a third see the virus spreading in a particular way in London, as activity across the euro zone it-taking. expensive for holders of others Microsoft on Sunday said it Microsoft has with acquisitions including formal expiration. Khogyani told AFP that gunman Some local officials have, grade student from Green we’ve seen in Manchester and West Yorkshire where it’s spreading through people expanded for the first time Spot gold had eased 0.2 per currencies. aims to complete a deal by done sever- world-building game Minecraft Fighting was still raging at remained holed up at the prison however, cautioned that ele- Bay who caught COVID at coming into another person’s home, then we will discuss that... and we will not since early 2019 last month. cent to $1,971.52 per ounce by Also on investors’ radars was Sept. 15 for TikTok’s al big and job-search social network the jail in the eastern city of a day after the raid began. ments of the group remained. school” and “RIP Grandma hesitate to act,” he told LBC radio. 0952 GMT, after hitting a re- the new U.S. stimulus plan that US, Canada, LinkedIn. They have fared bet- Jalalabad, where some 1,700 Khogyani said spe- caught COVID helping grand Virgin u Space tourism cord high of $1,984.66 in early lawmakers are struggling to Australia and ter than those under prede - IS and Taliban inmates were cial forces had so far kids with homework.” company Virgin Galactic Asian trade. U.S. gold futures hammer out. White House New Zealand cessor Steve Ballmer, whose being held. cleared four floors Teachers are also de - seeks to revive yesterday announced a Chinese company files were 0.1pc higher at $1,988. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows operations. failed deals included Nokia IS’s news outlet Amaq said its of a five-storey manding financial help for supersonic partnership with engine- $1.4 billion lawsuit “The dollar’s correction said on Sunday he was not op- It is likely to Oyj’s phone business. fighters were behind the raid, building outside parents in need, including commercial maker Rolls-Royce to build from a two-year low is taking timistic on a near-term deal for have an edge The LinkedIn acquisition in which saw hundreds of inmates the prison where rent and mortgage assis- flight a supersonic commercial airplane that flies at three times against Apple some shine off gold,” inde - coronavirus relief bill. in pricing 2016, for 50pc above its share escape before many of them several attackers tance, a moratorium on the speed of sound. The aircraft would travel at Mach 3 -- Reuters | Shanghai pendent analyst Ross Norman Spot gold may retreat into negotiations price, was Nadella’s biggest and were recaptured. had been holed up evictions and foreclosures rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from said. “We seem to be in a peri- a range between $1,943 and as the US is riskiest. Microsoft shares fell The ongoing attack was Af- since Sunday and cash assistance. 1976 to 2003. hinese artificial intelli- od of consolidation and we’ve $1,954 per ounce as it failed effectively 3pc when it was announced. ghanistan’s most violent in- night. President Donald Trump u Lebanon’s president and prime minister signed Lebanon Cgence company Shang- seen some profit-taking.” again to break resistance at forcing Tik- Microsoft has avoided an- cident since the Taliban and The has made school re-open- decrees accepting the resignation of Foreign Minister hai Zhizhen Intelligent Net- However a move to $2,000 is $1,982, said Reuters technical Tok’s Chi- titrust and privacy scrutiny Afghan security forces held a raid ings for classroom instruc- Nassif Hitti on Monday and appointing Charbel Wehbe to appoints work Technology Co., Ltd., on the cards in the near-term, analyst Wang Tao. nese par- with a cautious approach three-day ceasefire over the Eid came a tion, as they normally would replace him, the presidency said on its Twitter account. president’s also known as Xiao-i, has Norman added, with a host of Elsewhere, silver slipped ent, ByteD- to connecting LinkedIn to al-Adha festival which ended day after in August and September, Wehbe is the diplomatic adviser of President Michel Aoun. diplomatic filed a lawsuit against Apple factors, including weaker eco- 0.6pc to $24.22 per ounce, ance, to sell other products, such as Out- Sunday. the country’s part of his re-election cam- The decrees were later read out by the cabinet’s secretary adviser as Inc, alleging it has infringed nomic data and a resurgence in platinum inched up 0.1% to by threaten- look, and analysts have largely IS was not part of that truce intelligence paign. general in remarks broadcast by local media. on its patents. the geopolitical spat between $907.51, while palladium rose ing to ban. viewed the deal as a success in which Afghan authorities hope agency an - new foreign The company is calling the United States and China, 1.1pc to $2,113.19. TikTok has terms of synergies. will pave the way for peace nounced the minister for 10 billion yuan ($1.43 bn) contriving to take gold higher. taken teenag- Though the COVID-19 pan- talks with the Taliban as soon killing of a in damages and demands Rising COVID-19 cases and ers around the demic has slowed sales, Linke- as this week. top IS com- that Apple cease “manufac- simmering U.S.-China ten- world by storm dIn ad revenue was among Mi- Under a deal signed by the mander Global Countries worst affected turing, using, promising to sions have dented hopes for and emerged as a crosoft’s fastest-growing over Taliban and the United States near sell, selling, and importing” a swift economic recovery, significant compet- 2017-2019 as the global econo- in February, the “intra-Afghan” Jala- Covid-19 Cases: Country Total cases New deaths Total Deaths products that infringe on driving inflows into safe-ha- itor to Facebook and my roared. the patent. ven assets such as gold, which Google’s YouTube. Overall, LinkedIn has gen- $1,971 1 USA 4,827,843 +130 158,495 Xiao-i argued that Apple’s has climbed about 30% so far was the price of spot gold But like rivals, Tik- erated $14.3 billion in revenue 18,344,776 voice-recognition technolo- this year. by 0952 GMT Tok faces substantial for Microsoft through ads and Deaths 2 Brazil 2,736,298 +96 94,226 gy Siri infringes on a patent COVID-19 cases have topped new costs for content subscriptions, though analysts WHO urges Harry Potter-theme protest that it applied for in 2004 18 million globally, and White moderation as the estimate it remains unprofit- mothers to 3 India 1,852,156 +808 38,969 and was granted in 2009. House coronavirus experts spread of misinforma- Satya Nadella able. 694,820 4 Russia 856,264 +79 14,207 breastfeed Recovered: 5 South Africa 511,485 8,366 even if 6 Mexico 439,046 +274 47,746 infected with 11,542,569 7 Peru 428,850 19,614 Sanofi formally investigated over epilepsy drug Depakine 8 Chile 361,493 +99 9,707 New cases COVID-19 9 Spain 344,134 +9 28,472 a dedicated investigative judge Reuters | Geneva Sanofi has repeatedly considers the case is serious 10 Colombia 317,651 10,650 enough to warrant an investi- • +111,930 11 Iran 312,035 +215 17,405 said it has no intention gation. others should breast- to compensate Such legal cases can take years Mfeed their babies even New deaths 12 UK 305,623 +9 46,210 and do not necessarily result in KNOW WHAT if they have contracted COV- Protestors at the Harry Potter-themed rally vowed to ‘cast a spell’ for 13 Saudi Arabia 280,093 +32 2,949 Reuters | Paris significant amounts of compen- ID-19, the World Health Or- sation in France compared to ganization’s head said on democracy 14 Pakistan 280,029 +8 5,984 ealthcare company Sanofi other jurisdictions such as the Depakine, an epilepsy Monday, as the benefits out- AFP News Some have also waded into +2,372 HAventis France said it had United States. drug that caused birth weigh the risks of infection. sensitive territory in recent Middle East Figures as of closing been placed under formal in- Sanofi has repeatedly said it malfunctions and slow “WHO recommends that ozens of mostly young weeks by holding up placards vestigation on charges of man- has no intention to compensate mothers with suspected or Thais wearing striped opposing Thailand’s lese ma- Country Total new Total New Total Active Serious, Tot cases/1m pop neurological devel- D cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases Critical slaughter over Depakine, which or take part in a state-backed opment when taken confirmed COVID-19 should “Harry Potter” scarves rallied jeste law, one of the world’s is an epilepsy drug that caused compensation mechanism for be encouraged the same as Monday against the govern- harshest. birth malfunctions and slow Depakine. during pregnancy, lost all other mothers to initiate ment, vowing to “cast a spell” It shields the monarchy Egypt 94,483 4,865 42,455 47,163 41 922 neurological development when Marine Martin, president of its patent in 1998, is or continue breastfeeding,” for democracy as the nascent and its super-rich King Maha 280,093 +1,258 2,949 +32 242,055 35,089 2,017 8,035 taken during pregnancy. victims association APESAC, said prescribed in more Tedros Adhanom Ghebreye- movement grows increasingly Vajiralongkorn from criti- Saudi Sanofi Aventis France denied on Twitter the new formal inves- than 100 countries. sus told a news conference. bold in targeting the powerful cism, making open scruti - Arabia the charges and is challenging tigation was a “a great victory” News about the formal As the world marks elite. ny of the monarch virtually UAE 61,163 +164 351 54,863 5,949 6,178 the merits of the investigation, for the families she represents. breastfeeding awareness For more than two weeks, impossible. investigation was first Kuwait 68,299 +388 461 +4 59,739 8,099 126 15,973 it said in a written statement to France’s social affairs inspec- reported by French week, Tedros said “the young Thais across the country But younger Thais have Reuters. tion agency IGAS has estimated many benefits of breast- have held near daily protests at grown bolder in lock-step Oman 79,159 421 61,421 17,317 187 15,470 “All these elements do not in In 2018 aggrieved parents protested against Sanofi. (Courtesy of BBC) that between 2006 and 2014, 425 newspa- feeding for newborn babies universities and town halls to with their rising discontent of any way prejudge the respon- to 450 babies suffered congeni- per Le and children substantially denounce the military-aligned Prayut -- whose hold on pow- Qatar 111,322 +215 177 108,002 3,143 75 39,647 sibility of the company,” Sanofi The company said it had re- garding information provided In France, being put under tal birth defects or were stillborn Monde. outweigh the potential risks government of Prime Minister er is regarded as a legacy of a Aventis France said. spected all its obligations re - on Depakine. formal investigation means that following exposure to Depakine. of COVID-19 infections”. Prayut Chan-O-Cha. royalist junta regime.