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TEMPE, Arizona The third baseman for the Angels, Anthony Rendon, has a business-like relationship with baseball and stated on Monday that he values other things more than baseball. Before the 2020 season, Rendon inked a seven-year contract worth $245 million. He claimed to have always held the same philosophy about baseball, even before the Nationals selected him with the sixth overall pick in the 2011 draft. The 33-year-old claimed that after getting married in 2017 and having four children, his opinions had only become stronger. “This has never been a top priority,” Rendon said. “This is a job. I do this to make a living. My faith and my family come first before this job. So if those things come before it, I’ll move on.” However, Rendon stated that he doesn't intend to retire because he still feels like he has a lot to give and wants to stay fit for the first time since the 2020 season was cut short. He claimed that he simply views things differently than other players do...

Coming in to chase a 149-run target, #Bangladesh had recieved an early jolt in the form of the wicket of Liton Das in the very first over. After that a 46-run second-wicket stand between #Soumya Sarkar and debutant #Mohammad Naim had stabilized the innings before the latter was dismissed after scoring a 28-ball 26. #Mushfiqur Rahim, who had walked in after that, stayed till the very end as he struck a magnificent 43-ball 60. He strung a 60-run third-wicket stand with Soumya before stitching another unbeaten 40-run fourth-wicket stand with skipper Mahmudullah Riyad to see the Tigers get over the line. It was however Mahmudullah, who scored the winning, runs with a magnificent six over midwicket in the last over of the game. Earlier, Bangladesh restricted India to 148 for six after electing to field. It was a disciplined bowling display from Bangladesh after Mahmudullah, the T20I skipper for this tour, had won the toss and elected to field. Shafiul Islam gave the Tigers their f...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court ruled Thursday that three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company were not guilty of professional negligence in the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant because ensuring absolute safety at nuclear plants was not a government requirement at that time. The ruling by the Tokyo District Court ended the only criminal trial related to the nuclear accident that has kept tens of thousands of residents away from their homes because of lingering radiation contamination. Lawyers representing the 5,700 Fukushima residents who filed the criminal complaint said they will push prosecutors to appeal the decision. A group of supporters stood outside the court Thursday with placards reading “Unjust ruling.” The court said ex-TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 79, and two other former executives were also not guilty of causing the deaths of 44 elderly patients whose health deteriorated during or after forced evacuations from a local hospital...

Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world's largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle. The presidents of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, the vice-president of Suriname and the natural resource minister of Guyana attended the one-day summit in the jungle city of Leticia in southern Colombia. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated by video link, while his foreign minister, Ernesto Araujo, attended in person."This meeting will live on as a coordination mechanism for the presidents that share this treasure - the Amazon," Colombian President Ivan Duque said at the signing, adding the countries will meet again at the United Nations Climate Change conference in December."Goodwill alone is not enough anymore," Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra added. The countries will create a natural disaster network so they...

The government is now equipped to monitor, block or filter online contents, including those on social media. A system has been set up by the Department of Telecom (DoT) under a project titled Cyber Threat Detection and Response, officials said. It will be eventually run by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. The equipment is installed and its potential acceptance test (PAT) will be done by next week, officials at the dot said. If everything works as expected, the project will be handed over to the BTRC, they said.The system will be used for monitoring different sites round the clock. At the same time, law enforcement agencies will instruct the BTRC to block whatever content they deem derogatory or harmful, a senior DoT official said, requesting not to be named. The Tk 149.59 crore project is in line with the Digital Security Act recently passed by lawmakers, he added. The law also mentions forming an agency to monitor, filter and block malicious online content. Tak...

Describing Rohingyas as a big burden for Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Myanmar should take back its citizens. She said this when two delegations of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Population, Development and Reproductive Health and UK Conservative Friends of Bangladesh (CFoB) jointly called on her at the Gono Bhaban. The PM said Bangladesh sheltered the Rohingyas on humanitarian grounds as it had a similar experience during the Liberation War in 1971 when an estimated 10 million Bangladeshis took shelter in India as refugees. “Now the Rohingyas have emerged as a big burden for us and the local people have to face immense suffering for them,” Hasina said. Briefing reporters after the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim said the premier extended sincere thanks to the local people for accepting the suffering on humanitarian grounds. The delegations, led by UK APPG Chair Anne Main, handed over a report to Hasina on their visit to the ...