OKINAWA (AFP) -- Australia beat Japan to battle into the next round of the Basketball World Cup on Tuesday, Aug. 29, while Germany, the Dominican Republic, Lithuania and Canada all advanced with perfect records. Australia's Patty Mills dribbles the ball during the FIBA Basketball World Cup group F...
Jordan Clarkson is not losing motivation and confidence that Gilas Pilipinas can finally get over the hump heading into the equally crucial two games in the classification round. Jordan Clarkson continues to believe that Gilas Pilipinas can finally get over the hump in the World Cup (Noel...
By MARK REY MONTEJO Dominican Republic’s forward Angel Delgado felt sorry for what he did to Gilas big man June Mar Fajardo in the 2023 FIBA World Cup at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan last Friday, Aug. 25. Dominican Republic's Angel Delgado (left) reacts during their game...
The road to 2024 Paris Olympics remains wide open for Gilas Pilipinas and the rest of the Asian teams although they will be scrambling to catch up with Japan which managed to gain some head start after emerging at the end of the first round with a victory. Gilas Pilipinas has been relagated...
By MARK REY MONTEJO Gilas Pilipinas was swept in the group stage of the FIBA Basketball World Cup the country is co-hosting with Japan and Indonesia, and fans were not happy about it and vented their ire on head coach Chot Reyes. Gilas Pilipinas head coach Chot Reyes. (FIBA) The National,...
This handout image released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office on August 24, 2023 shows the booking photo of former US President Donald Trump. Former US president Donald Trump was photographed for a police mug shot after his arrest on August 24 at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, multiple US...
NEW DELHI, India -- India issued a "strong protest" to China on Tuesday after a Beijing map claimed land that New Delhi says is theirs, including territory close to where the neighbours battled in 2020. "We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the...
An undated and unplaced handout phooto received from The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on August 29, 2023 shows a brain scan. A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian...
Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan (Photo from AFP) STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The tritium concentration in wastewater being released from Japan's stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant is under expected levels and poses no risk to the population, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Tuesday. "So far...
A Covid-19 testing tent sits along a Manhattan street on March 09, 2023 in New York City. Three years since the outbreak of the global pandemic, which resulted in the deaths of millions of people, many parts are the world are nearly back to normal with few mask restrictions and falling...
This illustration photo created in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2023, shows the Twitter page of Elon Musk in front of the new X Twitter logo and old bird Twitter logo. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) SAN FRANCISCO , United States -- Elon Musk on Tuesday lifted a ban on political ads put in place...
Graves are seen in the municipal cemetery of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP) MONTREAL, Canada -- An Indigenous community in western Canada has discovered nearly 100 suspected unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school, officials said...
