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Chigumbura blasted seven massive sixes and a four during his unbeaten 26-ball 55, which saw India leaking 59 runs in the last five overs. The right-hander’s eighth-wicket stand with Neville Madziva yielded 40 runs as the Indians were searching for cover. Earlier, the hosts got off to a brisk start after being sent into bat, with openers Hamliton Masakadza and Chamu Chibhabha putting on 33 runs as the former skipper blasted a 15-ball 25, including two consecutive sixes off medium pacer Jaydev Unadkat to lay the platform....

Therefore, when a little girl was asked about her future profession in a video that has recently gone viral, the response was slightly left field. TikTok user baybay_930 took to the social media app on May 19 to share footage of her daughter’s preschool graduation. Set in the school gym, the video starts when the little girl’s name, which is Presley, is called by her teacher. Wearing a tiny graduation gown and cap, she heads up to collect her preschool diploma to a wave of applause....

For the second consecutive day, the country’s latest daily case count was the highest it’s been since around mid-April, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The new cluster of cases is linked to Beijing’s Xinfadi wholesale food market, a sprawling complex over 20 times larger than the seafood market in Wuhan where the first outbreak is suspected to have originated, Reuters reports. “The risk of the epidemic spreading is very high, so we should take resolute and decisive measures,” Xu Hejiang, spokesperson for the Beijing city government, said at a press conference on Monday....

Banking on a contingent of 1,300 members, comprising athletes and officials, China aim to dominate the 17th Asian Games, the continent’s premier sporting event, starting here Friday, for the ninth consecutive time. China will be participating in all but one of the 36 sports - kabbadi - at the Sep 19-Oct 4 Games, with 33 Olympic champions in its squad, reports Xinhua. “We consider the Asian Games an important part of our preparation for the 2016 Rio de Janerio Olympic Games,” said Xiao Tian, deputy chef de mission of Team China....

Chinese men are literally dying for a smoke. With 320 million smokers–more than 90 percent of them male–China consumes a whopping one third of the world’s cigarettes each year, the equivalent of a pack a day, every day, for every man, woman and child in the United States. And Chinese smokers are starting to pay the price. Already one in every eight male deaths in China is caused by smoking, and scientists predict the ratio will rise sharply, to one in three by the year 2050....

TikTok Must Comply With China’s Export Policies TikTok faces pressure from US President Donald Trump, who has threatened to ban the Chinese-owned app if it doesn’t sell its US assets. TikTok has already attracted a number of potential buyers, including the Walmart and Microsoft, plus Oracle. China recently added 23 new items to its export control list, which only complicates the sale of TikTok even more. The new list of restricted export technology now includes AI, as well as technology that customizes information based on data analysis....

Nuclear arms analysts combing through satellite images of the desert plains in northwestern China have now found what they believe are 230 silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch sites in Yumen, Gansu, and Hami, Xinjiang, respectively. The Chinese government has not signed on to arms control treaties like New START, despite the wishes of co-signatories the U.S. and Russia. Beijing says it plans to keep its nuclear arsenal at a “minimum level,” but the buildup of its silos deep inland—beyond the reach of most conventional weapons—has experts questioning China’s stated commitments....

Chinese are hitting the road in record numbers. Car ownership more than tripled between 2000 and 2006, and China is now the world’s second largest auto market after the United States. This love affair is spawning booming new auto-service industries, from vehicle accessories to roadside eateries. For better or worse, China is beginning to look—and taste—a lot like America in the 1950s. McDonald’s and KFC (known for its Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets all over the country) plan to open 25 drive-through restaurants in China; both began testing the waters with drive-ins in Beijing and elsewhere in 2005....

“All party comrades should take their faith in Marxism and the socialism with Chinese characteristics as their life’s purposes,” Xi said. The celebrations began on Monday night at Beijing’s Olympic stadium, which emphasized China’s rise in economic and political power. On Tuesday, Xi held a ceremony to award the medals. The celebrations will conclude on Thursday at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday. Members of the organization were commemorating the 30th anniversary of China and the group finalizing relations with each other. “China resolutely opposes hegemonism and power politics, wishes to maintain friendly relations with its neighbors and jointly nurture lasting peace in the region and absolutely will not seek hegemony or even less, bully the small,” Xi said to the nations during the virtual conference....

Lieber, the 62-year-old ex-chair of Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, was accused of hiding his involvement in China’s Thousand Talents Plan, which recruits people from foreign countries who are able to share secrets about their country’s technologies and intellectual properties. Prosecutors said Lieber organized conferences, published articles, and applied for patents on the behalf of Wuhan University of Technology. In return, the university paid him $50,000 a month....

In just three weeks, the death toll from the pneumonia-causing coronavirus has risen from three deaths to 910. On Sunday, China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 97 deaths, representing a 12 percent increase from the previous daily briefing and the most deaths in a single day. Of those 97 people, the vast majority—91 people—were from the Hubei province, where Wuhan, the origin city for the virus, is located. Two were in the neighboring province of Anhui and one each was reported in Jiangxi province, Hainan province and Gansu province....

The short bulletin, released via the embassy’s official account on messaging and social media app WeChat on Monday, predicted a further escalation of fighting, saying the “worsening tensions” looked to be “rising sharply.” The majority of its citizens in Ukraine had already left the country, the security notice said. It urged remaining Chinese nationals to leave “as soon as possible.” The government placed the number of Chinese citizens in Ukraine at around 6,000, the first of whom were evacuated west in buses on February 28, a full four days after the hostilities began....

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said Thursday that activity by U.S. military ships and surveillance planes directed at China has increased significantly under Biden’s administration, as the U.S. military presence in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait is promoting “regional militarization and threatening regional peace and stability.” While Biden did not discuss any military threats in his address Wednesday, he did emphasize that China and others were “closing in fast” in economic and technological terms....

The cases were found during initial screenings conducted throughout the Chinese city. A total of 97 cases were recorded, with others anticipated being found in the coming days. Around 12 million tests have already been distributed and 7.8 million of those were returned with samples. All citizens have been ordered to shelter in place as the investigation continues. The outbreak could pose a major problem for one major event. Tianjin is only an hour from Beijing, where the Winter Olympic Games are still scheduled to begin on February 4....

Xie Gengxin, from the Technology Research Institute at Chongqing University, was in charge of designing the biological experiment on board Chang’e-4. In an interview with the technology magazine IEEE Spectrum, Xie said the team had initially wanted to send a small species of tortoise to the moon. This could have provided important information about how animals react to the gravitational conditions on the lunar surface—findings that could aid future manned missions there....

In his sixth year as a pro, superstar QB Patrick Mahomes will lead a Chiefs team that looks a bit different than it did when it won Super Bowl LIV and lost Super Bowl LV. The biggest change: one fewer All-Pro on each side of the ball. Wideout Tyreek Hill is now in Miami and safety Tyrann Mathieu is in New Orleans. KC has won at least 12 games in all but one season since 2015 and notched double-digit wins every year but one over the past decade....

A total of 380,174 child COVID-19 cases were reported between the start of the pandemic and August 6, making up 9.1 percent of all cases, or 501 per 100,000 children in the U.S., according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. The data came from 49 states, New York City, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. Between July 9 and August 6, 179,990 new cases were reported....

The B.1.351 variant was first identified in South Africa in October 2020. It was then found to have been carried to the U.S. in January 2021. On March 8, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said the variant had been found in a male child living in Michigan’s Jackson County, according to several reports. Newsweek has contacted the department for comment. Officials are in the process of checking whether there are any additional cases....

If a child is diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia, extensive lifelong treatment is required, which includes medication and therapy. Treatment is usually carried out as a team by medical and psychiatric professionals, social workers, and the family. What Is Childhood Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia usually emerges in young adulthood, typically in the late teens into the mid-to-late 20s, but it can occur at any age, including in children. Schizophrenia in children is very rare, occurring in approximately one in 40,000 people under the age of 18....