[ad_1] HONG KONG (AP) – Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing company, Grab Holdings, said Tuesday that it plans to merge with U.S.-based Altimeter Growth Capital in a deal that would value it at nearly $40 billion in preparation for an initial public offering in the U.S. Grab’s agreement to list via a special purpose acquisition company…

[ad_1] MONACO (AP) – Second-ranked Daniil Medvedev withdrew from the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday following a positive COVID-19 test. The ATP said Medvedev has been placed in isolation. His condition is being assessed by the tournament doctor and the ATP medical team. “It’s a big disappointment not to play in Monte Carlo,” Medvedev said.…

[ad_1] BERLIN (AP) – Austria’s health minister announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying that he couldn’t continue in the grueling job of helping lead the country’s coronavirus response because of persistent personal health problems caused by overwork. Rudolf Anschober, 60, had been health minister since January last year, when his Green party became the junior…

[ad_1] A look at what’s happening around the majors today: ___ POSTPONED The Red Sox and Twins were scheduled to begin their series in Minnesota a day late. Monday’s opener of a four-game set at Target Field was postponed because of safety concerns following the fatal police shooting of a Black man in Minnesota and…

[ad_1] PUERTO RICO DE GRAN CANARIA, Spain (AP) – When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain’s Canary Islands, the British-Norwegian couple didn’t know when they would have guests again. They…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (AP) – The Indian city of Pune is running out of ventilators as gasping coronavirus patients crowd its hospitals. Social media is full of people searching for beds, while relatives throng pharmacies looking for antiviral medicines that hospitals ran out of long ago. The surge, which can be seen across India, is…

[ad_1] MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd‘s death was set to start presenting its case Tuesday, following 11 days of a prosecution narrative that combined wrenching video with clinical analysis by medical and use-of-force experts to condemn Derek Chauvin‘s actions. Prosecutors called their final witnesses Monday,…

[ad_1] A look at what’s happening around the majors Tuesday: ___ POSTPONED The Red Sox and Twins were scheduled to begin their series in Minnesota a day late. Monday’s opener of a four-game set at Target Field was postponed because of safety concerns following the fatal police shooting of a Black man in Minnesota and…

[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Texas has been hovering under 3,000 so far this month – the lowest levels since last June, according to data from the state. The Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday that there were 2,823 people with the coronavirus hospitalized on Sunday,…

[ad_1] TOKYO (AP) – Nintendo’s late president Satoru Iwata oversaw the video-game maker’s global growth as Super Mario and Pokemon became household names. “Ask Iwata” was published after his death from cancer in 2015 at age 55. This month, VIZ Media is publishing the English translation of the book, which came out in Japanese in…