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On basketball
Fair or not, Boston will be judged on how it treats Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Irving wanted to put Boston on alert and he did with his statements following the Nets’ Game 2 win over the Celtics. He wants the TD Garden crowd to avoid volatile and potentially racist chiding when he returns to his old home court Friday night. It’s a monumental stage for the city, a stage it didn’t ask for. Continue reading →
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World
Blinken claims progress in effort to boost Gaza truce
Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a two-day Mideast mission on Wednesday, winning valuable diplomatic support and hundreds of millions of dollars of pledges from Arab allies as he moved to shore up the cease-fire that ended an 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s militant Hamas rulers. Continue reading →
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World
Belarus plane crisis tightens Lukashenko’s awkward embrace of Putin
He may be the Kremlin’s closest ally, but his loyalty remains in doubt. When Alexander Lukashenko, the eccentric and brutal leader of Belarus, forced down a European passenger jet Sunday to arrest a dissident, he ushered in a new and even more brittle phase in one of the post-Soviet region’s most convoluted and consequential relationships: the one between Lukashenko and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Continue reading →
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