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Georgetown Basketball Coach Ewing To Miss Game Vs. Butler

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Georgetown basketball coach Patrick Ewing will miss the Hoyas’ game against visiting Butler because of what his team said Wednesday were D.C. Department of Health guidelines. The news release announcing the former Georgetown and NBA star’s absence Thursday did not offer any other details or explanation. Georgetown said assistant Louis Orr would serve […]

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Greek American Praised At Hearing To Become U.S. Envoy To Athens

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: George Tsunis, a Greek American businessman who fumbled a 2014 Senate hearing to be U.S. ambassador to Norway and withdrew from consideration, won praise on Wednesday at a hearing on his nomination to be the U.S. envoy to Greece. Former U.S. diplomats have sharply criticized the choice of the hotel developer and political

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‘Scream’ Calls Again, With Plenty Of Self-mockery

[ad_1] Ring. Ring. Twenty-six years after the original, Scream calls again. We’re now up to the fifth film in the franchise, but the first since 2011’s Scream 4. Enough time has passed that this one, titled simply Scream, bears no number, no caller ID. That’s presumably because this Scream, which features the original cast and

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Quebec Tax On Unvaccinated May Be Lawful But Sets Risky Precedent

[ad_1] TORONTO: A proposal by Quebec to tax unvaccinated people may be lawful but may also go against the spirit of Canada’s universal public health system, rights and medical experts said on Wednesday. Tuesday’s surprise announcement by the province’s premier, Francois Legault, came with few details. While his government would not say Wednesday how the

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Pakistan Court Sentences 4 to Death Over Blast Outside Hafiz Saeed’s House

[ad_1] An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced four persons to death for their role in triggering a powerful car bomb blast outside Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed’s house here in June last year that killed three people, according to a court official. Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta also handed

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US Judge Denies Prince Andrew Plea to Dismiss Sexual Assault Case

[ad_1] A US judge on Wednesday denied Prince Andrew’s plea to dismiss a sexual assault lawsuit brought against the British royal, paving the way for the case to proceed, a court filing showed. New York Judge Lewis Kaplan said in his ruling that Andrew’s motion to dismiss the civil complaint brought by accuser Virginia Giuffre

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I Recommend Taking Vaccine, Says Trump as He Talks About ‘Rigged’ US Election

[ad_1] Former US president Donald Trump expressed support for getting vaccinated against Covid-19 but said it should be up to individuals, in an NPR interview aired Wednesday that he cut short after again falsely claiming election fraud. In a rare alignment with President Joe Biden, Trump said he does “recommend taking” vaccines. But the Republican

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Embarrassment for Pak as Its IT Ministry Wing Says Gilgit-Baltistan, PoK Not Part of Country

[ad_1] Universal Service Fund (USF), a subsidiary of Pakistan’s information technology ministry, has refused to launch telecom projects in Gilgit-Baltistan and PoK, maintaining that the regions are constitutionally not part of the country. The USF in a letter said that due to this reason, cellular mobile companies could object to the utilisation of the amount

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