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Big games hype up FIBA World Cup ‘23

The historic Smart Araneta Coliseum will yet again make history from Aug. 26 to Sep. 3 as one of the venues for the FIBA...

Gilas squad out to defend homecourt

EVEN as a 29-year-old FIBA Basketball World Cup attendance record begs to be broken, and a revered venue looks to add another milestone to...

Gilas faces Dominican Republic in FIBA opener

FOR the first time in 45 years, the Philippines will be the setting for the FIBA Basketball World Cup. Manila will play host—alongside Okinawa, Japan...

2-ton cocaine stash found among Ecuador bananas

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominican anti-narcotics agents have seized more than two tonnes of cocaine stashed in a shipment of bananas en route...

22 leaders sign deal on LatAm food crisis

SANTO DOMINGO – Twenty-two countries signed a declaration at the Ibero-American Summit in the Dominican Republic on Saturday committing to fight food insecurity in...

Ibero-American gab focuses on food crisis

SANTO DOMINGO —Addressing a food crisis affecting a fifth of Latin America’s population featured high on the agenda of an Ibero-American leaders summit that...

Argentina misses FIBA World Cup for 1st time since 1982

Sao Paolo—Basketball powerhouse Argentina will miss this year’s FIBA World Cup for the first time since 1982 after they lost 79-75 to the Dominican...

Hurricane Fiona heads to Bermuda

Hurricane Fiona continued its slow and devastating march northward after slamming the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday and leaving a trail of destruction...

‘Catastrophic’ storm Fiona hits Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico—Hurricane Fiona knocked out power across Puerto Rico Sunday before making landfall, dumping torrential rain and wreaking “catastrophic” damage in several...

Big cruise ship hits Dominican coast

Santo Domingo—Officials in the Dominican Republic confirmed Monday that a large cruise ship had run aground off the Caribbean Island nation’s north coast after...

15 US missionaries and family kidnapped in Haiti: security source

About 15 American missionaries and family members were kidnapped on Saturday by a gang outside the Haitian capital, a local security source told AFP. The...

Chile moves towards decriminalizing elective abortion

Chile's lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a bill to decriminalize abortion within 14 weeks of pregnancy, a major step towards legalization of...

Dominican Republic wins

Coach Melvyn Lopez said the ‘Pearl of the Antilles’ Dominican Republic team gave him a happy result with its 94-67 stopping of Gilas Pilipinas on...

Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez split: reports

Miami—Singer Jennifer Lopez and former New York Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez have called off their engagement, US media reported on Friday. Lopez, 51, and...
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