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Analysis: All-NBA will be more like an All-World team this season, once again

Apr. 09, 2024 06:03 AM EDT

The voting hasn't taken place yet, though it's fairly obvious that Denver's Nikola Jokic will be the NBA's MVP this season and therefore extend the record streak to six consecutive years in which a foreign-born player wins that trophy. That's not the only international trend that...

50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat

Mar. 27, 2024 07:50 AM EDT

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled...

Slovenia orders a Russian diplomat to leave within seven days

Mar. 21, 2024 08:49 AM EDT

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A Russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata in Slovenia and ordered to leave the European Union country within seven days, its Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Slovenia is expelling the Russian diplomat over “activities incompatible with the...

Harris and Maxey help Sixers win again without Embiid, beating Doncic's Mavs 120-116

Mar. 03, 2024 16:34 PM EST

DALLAS (AP) — Tobias Harris scored 28 points, Tyrese Maxey added 24 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Dallas Mavericks 120-116 on Sunday. Kelly Oubre Jr. had 19 of his 21 points after the four-minute mark of the third quarter as the Sixers won consecutive games for the second...

Robert Badinter, who led France to end the death penalty and fought Holocaust denial, has died at 95

Feb. 09, 2024 14:02 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout of Yugoslavia's breakup, has died. He was 95. French President Emmanuel Macron...