(SportsNetwork.com) – Mat Latos eyes a third straight win on Tuesday when the Cincinnati Reds welcome the Boston Red Sox to Great American Ball Park for the start of a brief two-game set. Latos, who missed the first two and a half months of the season recovering from a flexor …
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(SportsNetwork.com) – The Donald Sterling drama is far from being over. The Los Angeles Clippers owner banned for life from the NBA has threatened to sue the league and claimed, through a lawyer, that he will not pay the $2.5 million fine, according to SI.com. Sterling has hired prominent antitrust …
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ROME – The Italian Navy is resuming exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, including near the coast of Libya, amid concerns about rapidly deteriorating security in the North African nation. The exercise will begin on Monday. It includes anti-submarine, anti-aircraft and anti-ship training operations. The exercise was suspended for a year …
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GENEVA – With the opening of the inaugural European Games in Baku 100 days away, human rights groups have called on host nation Azerbaijan to release political prisoners held on “trumped up” charges. Amnesty International released a report citing “the mounting persecution of government critics, detained under false charges.” Human …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch police have sent two pieces of soap purportedly dating back to World War II for forensic tests to establish if they contain human remains — possibly of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Police in the northern town of Dokkum said in a statement Friday that …
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PARIS – The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency wants further investigation into a “sordid incident” of collusion between Lance Armstrong and cycling’s governing body. After it was reported in 2005 that Armstrong’s Tour de France samples from 1999 showed traces of EPO, Dutch investigator Emile Vrijman was appointed by …
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SANAA, Yemen – Yemen’s Shiite rebels fired tear gas and started shooting in the air to disperse a demonstration against them in a central city, killing one person. Thousands marched in the streets of Bayda on Thursday to denounce the power grab by the rebels known as the Houthis. A …
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BERLIN – The U.N.’s special investigator on Iran says the human rights situation in the country has deteriorated since Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013. Ahmed Shaheed says “in my view the overall situation has worsened, as indicated by the surge in executions.” Shaheed told reporters in Geneva on Monday …
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – A court in Bangladesh’s capital has indicted a leader of a hard-line Islamist group and seven students in the hacking death of an atheist blogger two years ago. The court issued the indictments Wednesday after accepting the police investigation into the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian court has jailed in absentia a co-pilot who hijacked a plane bound for Rome and took it to Geneva a little over a year ago. The court handed Hailemedhin Abera a 19-year-sentence on Friday. It said Monday it had issued a public notice for …
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