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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — OG Anunoby was ruled out for Game 3 on Friday night with a strained right hamstring, but the New York Knicks forward appears to have avoided a serious injury and remained day to day in the second-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers. Anunoby was injured late in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, in which he scored 24 points. The Knicks hold a 2-0 lead in […]

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – Vietnam has expanded its island building in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly archipelago in the past year, adding 534 acres (216.1 hectares) of land, and has also begun to construct specialized infrastructure there, a U.S. think tank reported. The report on Friday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies added the following details: • The new dredging […]

Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid returned to action for Friday’s Game 3 against the visiting New York Knicks after sitting out Game 2 of the Eastern Conference second-round series with right hip and right ankle injuries. Embiid fueled Philadelphia’s first-round comeback over the Boston Celtics after missing the first three games due to an appendectomy on April 9. The 76ers won the final three games of that series with […]

HAVANA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday defended the Trump administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on Cuba, the largest of which is against GAESA, or Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In addition to GAESA and its leader, the sanctions announced Thursday included Moa Nickel, a Cuban joint venture with Canada’s Sherritt International, which immediately announced […]

COHUTTA, Ga. (AP) — The town council in a small north Georgia mountain community called a special meeting Friday evening to discuss reinstating the police department after the mayor fired the chief and all the officers. The notice for the meeting, posted outside the Cohutta Town Hall, says the council will also consider a request for the mayor’s “immediate resignation.” Another sign posted earlier this week in the town of […]

Australia’s Lucas Herbert bettered his stellar first round by a shot and opened up a six-shot gulf between him and the field at LIV Golf Virginia on Friday in Potomac Falls, Va. Herbert’s 9-under-par 63 rocketed him to 17 under for the event at Trump National DC. Spaniard Sergio Garcia (67), at 11 under, is the only player within nine shots of Herbert, while Englishman Richard Bland had the second-best […]

Aaron Rai finished the front nine strong to post a 4-under-par 67 Friday and take a one-stroke lead into the weekend of the ONEflight Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Classic. Rai is one of only a handful of competitors in the opposite-field event, which serves as an alternate for this week’s Truist Championship, who has already qualified for next week’s PGA Championship. The winner of this event will earn a spot, if […]

May 8 (Reuters) – Boeing said on Friday it was continuing to investigate a workplace accident that led to the death of an employee last month, after a union called for full accountability over the incident. Daniel Lussier, a 53-year-old aircraft mechanic at Boeing and member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), died in April following an accident at the Wichita plant. “We continue to investigate […]

SEOUL, May 9 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday reaffirmed his country’s commitment to its mutual defence treaty with Russia, in a message to President Vladimir Putin congratulating Russia on the anniversary of the ​defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two. Kim reiterated North Korea’s position to “give top priority” to its partnership with Russia and its commitment to “the implementation of the obligations of […]