BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said on Saturday it was "resolutely opposed" to the U.S. decision to ban and video-sharing app from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night. If the United States does not correct its mistakes, then will take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate interests of Chinese companies, the ministry added without giving details.

asked a judge to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the Chinese social-media network, as the company brought a geopolitical fight over technology and trade into a U.S. courtroom. and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., filed a complaint in Washington federal court late Friday night challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that would block U.S. from doing business with them. Trump issued the order abruptly after stating that TikTok didn’t “have any rights” and that he would ban the app if ByteDance didn’t pay the U.S. to secure government approval of a sale of its U.S. operations -- which the president later admitted would be unlawful, according to the complaint. TikTok said it offered alternatives to the president’s ban to address U.S. concerns but that on Friday the Commerce Department “mandated the destruction of TikTok in the United States.”

In November 2017, India, the US, Australia and Japan gave shape to the long-pending "Quad" Coalition to develop a new strategy with an aim to contain China's growing influence and develop a new strategy for keeping the critical sea routes in the free of any influence. China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam claim parts of it. The concept of the Indo-Pacific has incorporated into the larger solution," David Stilwell, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing on 'Engagement With China in the Indo-Pacific', on Thursday. Romney asked if US allies and other nations that follow the rule of law, whether, you know, India, Japan, South Korea, the EU, are poised to combine at some point and to develop a collaborative trade policy which will exert such pressure on China that they will be diverted from the course and move towards comporting with the order.

The core demands declared by the protesters in July were the dissolution of parliament with fresh elections, a new constitution and an end to intimidation of political activists. Too young to have been caught up in the sometimes violent partisan political battles that roiled a decade ago, the students have been doing it mostly by themselves, producing some radical demands and refreshingly different protests, Kevin Hewison, a professor emeritus of the University of North Carolina and veteran Thai studies scholar, said in an email interview. Students launched the protest movement in February, with rallies at universities around the country in reaction to a court ruling dissolving the popular Future Forward Party, and banning its leaders from political activity for 10 years. The party won the third-highest number of seats in last year's general election with an anti-establishment stance that attracted younger voters, and it is widely seen as being targeted for its popularity and for being critical of the government and the military.

Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Ross, who are both playing a prominent role in reviewing ByteDance’s proposal, have come to favor a solution that would reduce national security and data risks by moving some of TikTok’s key operations out of China, rather than killing the company outright, those people said. On Sunday, ByteDance rejected a deal from Microsoft, in which Microsoft had proposed essentially taking over control of TikTok’s algorithm. In its statement on Monday, TikTok said the proposal that was in front of the Treasury Department would “enable us to continue supporting our community of 100 million people in the U.S. who love TikTok for connection and entertainment.” Oracle confirmed that it was “part of the proposal submitted by ByteDance to the Treasury Department,” but declined to elaborate. Walmart, which had been working on a TikTok bid with Microsoft, said on Sunday in a statement that it “continues to have an interest in a TikTok investment and continues discussions with ByteDance leadership and other interested parties.”

India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti on Friday (local time) said the highlight of the "historic" UN General Assembly session this year will be the participation of Prime Minister in two debates in the high-level segments beginning from September 21. He said the first event is a general debate where the Prime Minister will represent India at the UN and deliver the national statement while the other is the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN. Furthermore, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be participating in some of the ministerial meetings which will be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said Tirumurti. Tirumurti said the theme of the current UN General Assembly session is -- 'The Future We Want, The UN We Need', "reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism, confronting COVID-19 through effective multilateral actions".

India supports multilateralism in the Security Council and it is high time that the status quo should be changed and the reforms are introduced at the earliest, India's Permanent Representative to the TS Tirumurti said on Friday (local time). In an exclusive interview with ANI, Tirumurti said that the architecture of UNSC "remains frozen" in time and both the COVID-19 crisis and the 75th anniversary of the UN presents an opportunity to do things differently and that the challenges provided by the pandemic to bring in genuine reform and new changes. Reforms are being held hostage by those who would prefer this status quo and that is why we are calling for strengthening multilateralism by shaking up the status quo and undertaking reform," Tirumurti said. Stressing on multilateralism, Tirumurti said, "As a staunch supporter of multilateralism, India has been supportive of new ways of functioning and ensuring that work goes on in the UN.

Meanwhile, 39,797 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to 4,495,183, the Ministry said on Friday, Xinhua reported. has recently managed to reduce the average number of daily deaths, which stood at 779 in the past seven days, 9 per cent lower than the previous 14 days. The average number of new cases per day has also been declining, falling to 31,097 in the past seven days, 22 per cent lower than the previous two weeks. The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous state in Brazil, is the most affected by the virus, with 924,532 cases of infection and 33,678 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 249,798 cases and 17,575 deaths.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 6,722,699 and 198,509, respectively, according to the CSSE. India is currently in the second place in terms of cases at 5,214,677, while the country's death toll soared to 84,372. In terms of cases, Brazil ranks third (4,495,183), and is followed by Russia (1,086,955), Peru (750,098), Colombia (743,945), Mexico (688,954), South Africa (657,627), Spain (640,040), Argentina (613,658), France (467,421), Chile (442,827), Iran (416,198), the UK (388,412), Bangladesh (345,805), Saudi Arabia (328,720), Iraq (311,690), Pakistan (304,386), Turkey (299,810), Italy (294,932), Philippines (279,526), Germany (271,247), Indonesia (236,519), Israel (179,071), Ukraine (173,703), Canada (143,911), Bolivia (129,419), Ecuador (124,129), Qatar (122,917), Romania (110,217), Kazakhstan (107,134), Dominican Republic (106,732), Panama (104,879) and Egypt (101,772), the CSSE figures showed. The other countries with over 10,000 deaths are the Brazil (135,793), Mexico (72,803), the UK (41,821), Italy (35,668), France (31,257), Peru (31,146), Spain (30,405), Iran (23,952), Colombia (23,665), Russia (19,128), South Africa (15,857), Argentina (12,656), Chile (12,199) and Ecuador (11,044).

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will ban video-sharing app from U.S. app stores starting Sunday night, a move that will block Americans from downloading or updating the Chinese-owned platform over concerns it poses a national security threat. But on Nov. 12, the app could become slower or harder to use because American companies will be barred from providing back-end hosting services that help the app function smoothly. Beginning Sunday, the app will no longer be available for download from app stores in the United States, greatly reducing the number of new U.S. users. Users of Apple's iPhone, for example, could reset the country settings on their phone to another country such as Canada to download TikTok, though they would need to leave their phone set to the Canadian App Store to keep the TikTok app current.

Rip down his statue. They look and they say I want to take on that statue. Ten years is a lot to rip down a statue, have a little fun, especially when they have no idea what they're ripping down. They're ripping down our past.

A company's emphasis on a level of corporate social responsibility, or CSR, can be an integral part of making your business more appealing to clients, employees, vendors, and investors. Given the many benefits that come from social impact, it’s important for entrepreneurs to be aware of some of the leading socially conscious businesses. For three seasons, the monthly Fox Sports television show "Power of Sports" has traveled to cities across the United States every month to showcase how teams, athletes, and organizations use sports to make a positive impact in their communities. The company, based in Pittsburgh and projecting over $100 million in sales in the heavily competitive drink and energy business, took on two elite investors this past year (two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald of the LA Rams and NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks), and immediately set out to find ways to give products to first responders helping fight Covid-19 and kids who were struggling with remote learning and isolation.

“You can find people in online selling forums willing to put you in touch with someone who can get into Amazon’s system to help you sell more products or sabotage your competitors.”More than half the goods sold on Amazon’s website come from independent merchants who give Amazon a cut of each sale. Selling on Amazon is so competitive it has created a cottage industry of consultants who help merchants. The federal indictment highlights how the stakes are so high that Amazon’s employees and contractors can be enticed with bribes to manipulate a marketplace that is supposed to help shoppers find the best products at the best prices.

American buyout major on Friday sold 23 per cent stake in Essel Propack, one of the largest manufacturers of laminated tubes used mostly by FMCG and pharma companies, for a little over Rs 1,860 crore through open market transactions. The shares were sold on an average price of Rs 256.5, valuing the transaction at Rs 1,861.68 crore. Last year, Blackstone had acquired 75 per cent stake in for Rs 3,211 crore. Essel Propack's Ashok Goel, who also runs Essel World, the first amusement park in Mumbai, is the younger brother of Subash Chandra, the promoter of the financially troubled Essel Group that has an indebtedness of Rs 17,174 crore.

In the last two weeks, the number of cases being reported across the country each day has risen by nearly 50 per cent. An average of 779 new cases have been reported daily during the most recent seven days, according to the Public Health Agency of on Thursday. As of Friday noon, Canada has reported 141,565 Covid-19 cases and 9,201 deaths, according to CTV. Meanwhile, the United States has reported 6,694,434 cases and 198,055 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

"As soon as the vaccine is approved, the administration will deliver it to the American people immediately... Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April (2021)," Trump said at a press briefing. He said "brilliant" doctors and scientists of the US have been working around the clock to produce a COVID-19 vaccine and informed that three vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials."Lot of work has been going on with respect to vaccines... The vaccine should be developed as soon as possible to end the pandemic and get life back to normal. As part of Operation Warp Speed, initiated by the Trump administration to facilitate and accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines, Trump said all of the most promising vaccine candidates are being manufactured in advance.

A further 13,215 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in on Friday, making it the highest number of infections recorded in a single day since the outbreak, the country's Public Health Agency said. In France, the cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases now totals 428,696. The number of serious cases has increased to 571 from 535 the day before, Xinhua reported citing the agency. The total number of deaths surged to 31,249, an increase of 123 in the last 24 hours and the biggest daily toll since mid-May, when the country began a gradual de-confinement.

The U.S. has deployed additional troops and armored vehicles into eastern after a number of clashes with Russian forces, including a recent vehicle collision that injured four American service members. The most serious was last month, when officials said Russian vehicles sideswiped an light-armoured U.S. military vehicle, injuring four Americans. While there have been several other recent incidents between the American and Russian troops in eastern Syria, officials have described the August crash as the most concerning. The mechanised infantry assets will help ensure the force protection of coalition forces in an increasingly complex operating environment in northeast Syria, said Col. Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition.

British Prime Minister on Friday warned that a second wave of Covid-19 in Britain is "coming in", and his government may need to "intensify things to help bring the rate of infections down". The number of cases in Britain rose by 4,322 on Friday with 27 more deaths as the country is struggling to cope with test shortages. Earlier reports suggested that the British government is considering the introduction of new national restrictions as the country is struggling to get a handle on the spread of coronavirus. England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance have reportedly warned that Britain is in danger of seeing a substantial increase in the number of cases by mid-October if the virus is left unchecked.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose 27-year tenure as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court culminated a legal career dedicated to advancing the rights of women, has died. Long before President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court in 1993, Ginsburg argued cases before the court as a scholar and advocate of the women’s rights movement. In a 2009 interview with USA Today, Ginsburg said the Supreme Court needed more female justices. At the ACLU, Ginsburg became a leading practitioner before the Supreme Court, planning and arguing sex-discrimination cases that cumulatively established for the first time that discrimination against women was banned by the Constitution’s equal-protection clause.

The New York University speech alarmed the leaders of some women’s groups and abortion rights organizations, some of whom lobbied quietly against her when Justice White announced in March 1993 that he would soon be leaving the court. President Clinton, making his first nomination to the court, conducted an almost painfully public search among judges and political figures, with contenders including Mario Cuomo, then governor of New York, who turned him down, and Bruce Babbitt, the incumbent secretary of the interior. Fourteen years later, on a Supreme Court that had turned notably more conservative with the departures of Justices Marshall and O’Connor and their replacement by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., Justice Ginsburg expressed herself on the subject of abortion in one of her most stinging and widely noticed dissenting opinions. That rationale, Justice Ginsburg objected in dissent, relied on “an anti-abortion shibboleth” — the notion that women regret their abortions — for which the court “concededly has no reliable evidence.” The majority’s “way of thinking,” she wrote, “reflects ancient notions about women’s place in the family and under the Constitution — ideas that have long since been discredited.”

Every single dollar I spent for the first couple of years was simply wasted, and I worry that there is a significant percentage of those 27 million people who are in the exact same position I was years ago. So, in hopes of saving other people a lot of money, I recommend that every new entrepreneur sell used books online as their first business. Over the next year you can learn about business, online marketplaces and start to gain the knowledge necessary for you to build something truly valuable. This is experience and knowledge that I spent years and tens of thousands of dollars learning — you have the opportunity to gain some of that knowledge this year, while not losing a single dollar.

Every day for nearly five years, Juliet Shen’s 94-year-old grandmother in Shanghai has begun her day with a WeChat message to her 40 children and grandchildren scattered across the globe. Ms. Shen, 27, who lives in Brooklyn, also chats with her parents in China and her brother in Nicaragua in a separate WeChat group, where they share thoughts about their daily meals and other quotidian routines. On Friday, Ms. Shen called her own meeting with her parents and brother to discuss the U.S. government’s plan to hobble WeChat, the hugely popular messaging service that is a lifeline for many Americans to stay in touch with family and friends in China. When she heard the news about WeChat, Ms. Shen said, “I felt like the wind got knocked out of me.