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A judge in Washington has ordered Alphabet’s Google to share information with rivals in order to promote online competition.

The court’s request to force the internet giant to sell its well-known Chrome browser is also rejected by the decision made on Tuesday.

Sundar Pichai, the head of Google, was accused at a trial in April of worrying that the US Department of Justice’s request for data-sharing measures might allow Google’s rivals to reverse-engineer its technology.

It may take years before Google is required to take legal action in response to US District Judge Amit Mehta’s decision because it has previously stated that it intends to appeal.

Additionally, Mehta has forbid Google from entering exclusive agreements that would prevent manufacturers from installing rival products on new devices.

Google claimed that the only appropriate course of action was to loosen its agreements with device manufacturers, browser developers, and mobile network operators. According to the documents presented at trial, Samsung Electronics, Motorola, and wireless providers AT&amp, T and Verizon can now load rival search offerings, according to its most recent agreements with device makers.

One of the world’s most successful businesses and its parent country, the US, were involved in the decision, which came after Mehta declared last year that it had an illegal monopoly on online search and related advertising, for five years.

Prosecutors argued in the trial in April for drastic measures to reinvigorate competition and stop Google from limiting its search dominance to artificial intelligence.

Google claimed that the proposals would give away its technology to rivals because they went far beyond what was legally necessary.

Google is suing over its dominance in other markets in addition to the search controversy.

In a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, the company recently announced it would continue to fight a ruling that would require it to overhaul its app store.

In a separate case brought by the Justice Department, where a judge determined that Google holds illegal monopolies in online advertising technology, the company is scheduled to go on trial in September to determine remedies.

The Justice Department’s two cases against Google are just one more example of the US’s wider, bipartisan crackdown on big tech companies, which included those brought on by Amazon and Apple during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Asisat Oshoala, a Nigerian forward, left Bay FC for Saudi Women’s Premier League side Al-Hilal.

The agreement’s terms were not made public. The 30-year-old international from Nigeria signed a two-year deal with Al-Hilal.

Oshoala left Barcelona for Bay FC in the beginning of its 2024 season, where she won two Women’s Champions League titles. In her first year with the San Francisco Bay Area team, she scored a team-high seven goals.

In the 17th minute of a game between Angel City and Bay FC, the 30-year-old scored the club’s first franchise goal on March 17, 2024.

Asisat has been a significant player in Bay FC history, not just because of her physical exertion but also because of the energy, professionalism, and kindness she consistently brought to the field,” according to Matt Patter, the sporting director of Bay on Tuesday.

We are appreciative of everything she contributed to our club during its first season because she is a top player and an even better person.

Oshoala, who won her sixth Africa Cup of Nations title in July, was a member of the Nigerian team that won its 10th African Cup of Nations title. She was also a six-time African player of the year.

Oshoala, who was born in Ikorodu, was also the first African woman to receive the Ballon d’Or award, a title that is given annually to honor the best player in the world.

She was denied the Spain’s Alexia Putellas with the 2022 award. She received her sixth and final African Women’s Player of the Year award in that year.

According to a judicial source and a human rights organization, a French court has issued arrest warrants for seven former top Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, related to the bombing of a press center in Homs.

On February 22, 2012, a rocket struck the “informal press center,” injuring two journalists and an interpreter, as well as renowned US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik.

In addition to al-Assad, who emigrated to Russia in December of that year when opposition fighters took control of Syria, warrants have also been issued against his brother Maher al-Assad, who at the time was de facto commander of the 4th Syrian armoured division, intelligence chief Ali Mamlouk, and then-army chief of staff Ali Ayoub, among others.

In its courts, France allows the filing of crimes against humanity.

According to the Syrian Center for Media and Free Expression, it was determined that the attack had purposefully targeted foreign journalists by the French judiciary.

According to Mazen Darwish, a lawyer and general director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, “the judicial investigation clearly established that the attack on the informal press center in Bab Amr was part of the Syrian regime’s explicit intention to target foreign journalists in order to stifle media coverage of its crimes and force them to leave the city and the country.”

The journalists were the victims of a “targeted bombing,” according to the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) who also reported.

The warrants, which were issued on Tuesday, were welcomed by Clemence Bectarte, the family of Ochlik, and he called them “a decisive step that opens the door for a trial in France for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”

The attack on the informal press center where they were employed also injured British photographer Paul Conroy, French journalist Edith Bouvier, and Syrian translator Wael Omar.

Colvin, who had lost one eye to an explosion during Sri Lanka’s civil war, was renowned for her fearless reporting and signature black eye patch. A Private War, a Golden Globe-nominated movie, celebrated her career.

Local media and a police official claim that at least 11 people were killed in an explosion at a rally held in Quetta, Pakistan, by the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M).

Police are conducting an investigation into the explosion, police official Athar Rasheed told Reuters on Tuesday.

At least 29 people were hurt in the explosion in the western city, according to the English-language Dawn news site.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly explosion.