Thursday night in the NBA featured a couple of massive blowouts, highlighted by the matching of the fifth-largest margin of victory in NBA history. The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 139-77, a 62-point victory that moved the Thunder into a tie with the Minnesota Timberwolves at the …
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A winter storm in western New York is threatening strong wind gusts and the possibility of heavy snowfall for Sunday’s Wild Card game between the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers, prompting the Bills to call for extra hands in preparation. The National Weather Service (NWS) for Buffalo issued a winter …
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s Finance Ministry says it wants to grant a chunk of a recently-privatized Athens coastal plot earmarked for luxury development to be used as a municipal waste management facility. Deputy Finance Minister Nadia Valavani said Wednesday it was “necessary” to hand the 1.2-hectare (3-acre) area to municipalities …
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BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian authorities are offering $40,000 for help finding the kidnapped daughter of a high-profile security official. The 11-year-old girl was kidnapped Thursday afternoon in the northern city of Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela. Her father, Diego Mora, is the director of Colombia’s National Protection Unit, which …
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PODGORICA, Montenegro – Doctors in Montenegro say one sailor has died and three more had to be hospitalized after an accident on a Greek ferry near the country’s Adriatic coast. Doctors at the general hospital in the coastal town of Meljine say one of the sailors remains in life-threatening condition …
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NEW DELHI – The Indian army says it attacked insurgent groups along its border with Myanmar days after the rebels killed 18 Indian soldiers in an ambush in the insurgency wracked remote northeast. Major. Gen. Ranbir Singh, a top army officer, says the army was in communication with Myanmar authorities …
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BAGHDAD – An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body …
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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says an independent panel of experts that examined new information about the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo has delivered its report. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that Ban will study the …
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish prosecutors say their planned interrogation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over alleged sex crimes could take place in London within weeks. Lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said Monday she has submitted paperwork to British and Ecuadorian authorities asking for permission to question Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in …
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MORELIA, Mexico – Seven people including two police officers have been killed in what Mexican authorities call an ambush of a convoy in the southwestern state of Michoacan. The state Public Safety Department and Prosecutor’s Office say three more officers were wounded in the clash early Tuesday. Police were guarding …
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