SAN ANTONIO – Kayla McBride scored 21 points, Jayne Appel tied a franchise record with 20 rebounds, and the San Antonio Stars beat the Los Angeles Sparks 82-76 on Sunday. Sophia Young-Malcolm and Danielle Robinson had 14 points apiece, and Jia Perkins added 12 for San Antonio (14-18), which pulled …
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BRYAN, Texas – Kristen Gillman increased her lead to six strokes Thursday in the Junior PGA Championship, shooting a 1-under 70 at Miramont to reach 11 under. Gillman, the 16-year-old Austin, Texas, player who has committed to Alabama, had the best three-day total in the history of the girls’ division. …
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CANBERRA, Australia – An Indonesian envoy says that Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been too busy during the past three weeks to accept a phone call from the Australian prime minister to plead for the lives of two death row prisoners. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters on March …
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MOSCOW – Russia’s military is holding maneuvers of air defense forces in the southwest of the country, the latest in a series of frequent drills amid tensions with the West. The Southern Military District, where the exercises will take place, includes the regions bordering Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which …
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PARIS – The Paris prosecutor’s office says authorities have found phones, USB flash drives and other equipment during searches of about 80 prison cells of Islamic radicals after terrorist attacks earlier this month. The prosecutor’s office said Monday that investigators are analyzing the material found in the searches. Two of …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official news agency is quoting a senior judiciary official as saying a detained Washington Post journalist “will be tried soon.” The report Wednesday by IRNA quoted Gholam Hossein Esmaeili on the case of Jason Rezaian, who has been held on unknown charges since July 22. The …
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MADRID – The Spanish foreign ministry has summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to protest against comments by the Venezuelan president against Spain after the Spanish Parliament passed a motion calling for the release of opposition leaders jailed in the South American country. The ministry said in a statement that Venezuelan ambassador …
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TEHRAN, Iran – A senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Sunday that inspectors would be barred from military sites under any nuclear agreement with world powers. Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard’s deputy leader, said on state TV that allowing the foreign inspection of military sites is tantamount to “selling …
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BUENOS AIRES – Two Argentine judges are under fire for cutting the sentence of a convicted child abuser on the grounds that his 6-year-old victim had suffered earlier abuse and therefore had already been traumatized. In the newly publicized 2014 ruling, the judges cut the child abuser’s sentence from six …
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was forced to scramble its air forces more than 300 times in response to Russian military aircraft over the course of 2023, the international organization said Friday. “NATO has standing air-policing missions that calls for Allied jets to scramble when there are signs of …
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