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...The WNBA, which is set to begin its 2022 season on Friday, said the Phoenix Mercury will continue to pay Griner’s salary in full....
...In sum, Boehly posited hosting a “North vs South” football match featuring the league’s best players, and a tournament between the bottom four squads in the table, using the proceeds to help smaller clubs...
...possession of narcotic cannabis oil....
...As the Phoenix Mercury star’s diplomatic saga persists, more attention than possibly ever before will be on the women’s game....
...As the NBA conference finals kicked off this week, the rising star of the postseason has been Luka Dončić of Slovenia, who led the Dallas Mavericks in a stunning Game 7 rout of the overall No. 1 seed Phoenix...
...Liam Livingstone, whose big hitting helped secure a place in Saturday’s men’s final for Birmingham Phoenix, said he had not given up on a recall to the England Test team....
...England manager Gareth Southgate and his squad know their power and aren’t afraid of using their platform, writes Gideon Rachman. Politicians on both sides of the fence look on with envy....
...Polls show that both the narcotics crackdown and the president enjoy the support of a large majority of Filipinos....
...Anthony De La Rosa was 22 when a player on his college baseball squad introduced him to a new drug: Oxycodone. “We weren’t just smoking weed any more....
...Officials denied the latest claims against Mr Duterte, whose anti-narcotics drive is a keystone of his domestic support....
...The death squad claims have also diverted attention from Mr Duterte’s other promises and problems....
...A former Davao police officer claimed last month that he used to be a ringleader of an anti-drugs death squad acting under Mr Duterte’s orders as mayor....
...Claims have surfaced implicating Mr Duterte in death squads and corruption in the city of Davao during his more than 20 years as mayor there....
...“When I lived in Phoenix I always said that it was a city built for cars and people just happened to live there....
...Human rights groups have alleged there were more than 1,400 suspicious deaths during the Davao drugs war, a forerunner to a national counter-narcotics campaign under Mr Duterte in which more than 7,000 people...
...Although he’s been clean for six years, he still fears he might become a target in President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on narcotics....
...Police suspended their own anti-narcotics operations amid outcry over the role of some officers in the killing of a South Korean businessman....
...The two traditional measures of a successful anti-narcotics operation — big busts and high-profile arrests — have so far been lacking....
...He has struck a popular chord because the country’s narcotics problem is undeniably huge and previous efforts to deal with it have failed, often falling prey to corruption....
...Rodrigo Duterte, presumptive president of the Philippines, is a man who brags about Viagra-fuelled love affairs and links with brutal death squads, while admitting he has little in the way of policy plans...
...With this in mind, I have created an indoor garden of towering Phoenix palms and leafy taro in a vast atrium flooded with natural light....
...Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a bomb squad searched his Phoenix apartment after the shootings, according to law enforcement officials....
...As one Mexican commentator asked after his election: was this the phoenix rising from the ashes, or a streamlined pterodactyl, the return of the dinosaurs that gave the old PRI its teeth?...
...The FBI is investigating claims of a bomb threat to the American Airlines flight from Dallas to San Diego, which was diverted to Phoenix, Arizona....
...Someone is trying to sabotage the university’s Boat Race squad. Our precocious, garrulous heroine investigates....
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