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After several days when the sprinters shined, the race gets its first summit finish on Thursday at the relatively short, but steep, Mur de Bretagne to end Stage 6. Riders will make two trips up the category-3 “wall” at the end of the 181-kilometer (112-mile) leg starting in the western port city of Brest. Devoid of the spectacular heights of southern France, the cycling-crazed Bretons say the Mur de Bretagne is their version of the famous Alpe d’Huez, the mountain in the Alps etched into the race’s lore that riders will venture up on Stage 12....

Pompeo visited the disputed territory during a trip to Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, in what’s projected to be the final weeks of President Donald Trump’s administration. The top U.S. diplomat’s trip was hailed by Israel as a further legitimization of its control over the Golan Heights, but condemned by the Syrian mission to the United Nations as an example of the White House’s unilateral prioritization of Israel and a flagrant violation of international law....

An eerie, tense, and claustrophobic experience, the forthcoming System Shock title looks to adhere very closely to the source material. The original game had a suffocating feel to it with tight environments and an unwieldy UI, and, while Nightdive Studios seems to have done a commendable job of updating the game for the twenty-first century, it also seems to have maintained the oppressive, rat-in-a-maze feel that made the first System Shock title so compelling....

Warren is projected as a late lottery pick in Sporting News' latest mock draft. The 6-8 Warren helped his cause down the stretch of the season with 19 straight 20-point games and 31 over the course of the season. MORE: Warren in SN’s latest mock draft | Draft status of college stars | Early entry list Warren posted final averages of 24.9 points and 7.2 rebounds and was named ACC Player of the Year, beating out Duke freshmen Jabari Parker, who is expected to land at the top of this draft he does decide to leave school....

Last year, the ICC gave permission to the league to conduct the event, but before the second season, the tournament has received official sanctioning, according to organisers of the event. “This sanction from ICC for T10 League gives our partners, stakeholders and more importantly the players a much-needed boost. Having said that, it additionally gives us the responsibility to ensure we keep growing year-on-year and make this format globally acceptable,” Shaji Ul Mulk, the chairman of the T10 League, said....

Put into bat first, Namibia could only manage 132-8 in the first innings, courtesy of a splendid showing from India’s spin twins Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In reply, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma came in all guns blazing, and with some luck and help from Suryakumar Yadav, shot down the score with 28 balls to spare. As he did throughout the T20 World Cup, David Wiese once again top-scored for Namibia, collecting 26 runs off 25 balls....

The South African team found itself immersed in controversy midway through the tournament when the country’s cricket board (CSA) ordered the players to take a knee before their game against the West Indies and the remaining fixtures. Quinton de Kock initially refused to do so and was forced to miss the game against the Caribbean side. Temba Bavuma, on his part, feels the pressure mounted on the team to perform the gesture was “a bit unfair....

Both sides have been knocked out of the competition. India’s hopes of making it to the semis were shattered as the Kiwis defeated Afghanistan on November 7. Namibia, on the other hand, sit on 2 points from their 4 games and will be looking to end their campaign on a high. This will be Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri’s last match as India’s T20 captain and head coach, respectively....

After being asked to bat, India put 184/6 on the board as both KL Rahul and Virat Kohli struck good-looking half-centuries. While Rahul tormented the Bangladeshi bowlers with his 32-ball 50 in the first half of the innings, Kohli’s measured knock of 64* (44), helped India reach an impressive total. In reply, opener Litton Das counter-attacked the Indian pacers and got Bangladesh off to a terrific start in the chase....

With the Kingdom Hearts series celebrating its 20th anniversary this 2022, Square Enix made sure that big updates and announcements were included in the festivities. The company held an exclusive event and exhibit in Tokyo, which became its channel to share news about the future of the series. During the event, a trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4 was revealed, a new mobile title was announced, and the community got updates on KHUX: Dark Road....

The clip shows Steven, a 20-year-old TikToker who uses the handle @undeaddot, standing on a small stepladder next to a large sink filled to the brim with water and suds, in the kitchen of a Taco Bell restaurant in West Virginia. Steven jumps into the air and cannonballs into the sink, sending water gushing to the floor. He is completely submerged in the water for a few seconds until his head bobs up from under the froth....

Waititi will play the notorious privateer Edward Teach, more famously known as Blackbeard, in his HBO Max pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death. He was already set to produce the show since September of 2020, so it almost seemed inevitable that he would eventually show up in front of the camera in some form. Few probably expected to see him play such a villainous figure out of history, but then again, Hitler....

In its first public opinion survey, released on September 29, Taiwan’s opposition-run Intelligentsia Taipei found that 50.2 percent of respondents weren’t concerned about the possibility of war, compared to 42.5 percent who said they were. A majority 58.8 percent thought conflict with China was unlikely to happen in the next 10 years, but 17.6 percent said it was probable. Only 2.2 percent of those polled were certain of war this decade....

“The country must rely on itself, and if any friends or other groups can help us, then it’s like I said before, we’re happy to have it, but we cannot completely depend on it,” Chiu said Thursday. Tension between China and Taiwan has continued to rise, with Chiu calling the climate the most “severe” in 40 years as China has sent a record-breaking amount of fighter jets toward international airspace near the island and intensifying a campaign of military harassment....

Winning Latin American hearts and minds, however, may prove to be much more difficult. Resentment of the United States is nothing new among developing countries. Within hours, in many parts of the world, the attack on America drew quite a different reaction than Cardoso’s–a quiet satisfaction that the world’s superpower had been taken down a notch. Latin Americans are no longer natural Yankee-bashers. But a lump of resentment at all things gringo can still rise, and Sept....

Just one day after being called out by Rose for an apparent lack of toughness, Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson silenced the controversial Reds legend in his first at-bat, lifting a solo home run in the first inning of Game 2 of the ALDS on Friday. MORE: Best images from the ALDS | Playoff predictions | 50 best players in the postseason Rose, a postseason analyst for FOX, criticized Donaldson after Game 1 for leaving the game early after taking a knee to the head in the middle of Toronto’s 5-3 loss to the Rangers on Thursday....

Recently, Take-Two Interactive filed a patent which it refers to as a “system and method for virtual navigation in a gaming environment.” As can be expected when something like this crops up, gamers are dissecting the patent in an attempt to unearth anything that could lead to details about Grand Theft Auto 6. These are just speculations at this stage, but it hasn’t prevented one user on Twitter from delving deep into the nitty-gritty to try and piece it all together....

Slatoff further unpacked Take-Two’s reasons for managing its products in such a strict manner, by stating that doing so not only protects them from franchise fatigue, but it also makes the games more coveted in the long run, and causes the brands to which they are attached to become more profitable. Regarding Take-Two’s decision to avoid annual releases, the company’s president said: Back in November 2015, Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick basically expressed the same sentiment, giving similar examples to demonstrate why Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead are not annual releases....

The government has a solid majority in the National Assembly and is expected to easily defeat the motion when it comes to a vote this week. But Aziz, and the president by extension, will take a serious political hit during the debate. Musharraf can be proud of Pakistan’s 6 percent GDP growth over the past three years and of a 10 percent reduction in the number of Pakistanis living below the poverty line in the last five....