LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Results from Tuesday’s first-round NBA playoff games (all series best-of-seven): Western Conference at Houston Houston Rockets 105 Oklahoma City Thunder 99 (Rockets win series 4-1) at San Antonio San Antonio Spurs 116 Memphis Grizzlies 103 (Spurs lead series 3-2) at Los Angeles Utah Jazz 96 Los Angeles Clippers 92 (Jazz […]
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NBA: First-round playoff results – collated
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Dar, McMaster vow to continue working for peace, stability
WASHIGNTON, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP): Describing regional peace and stability as a mutual goal, Pakistan and the United States have agreed to continue to work to this end during a meeting between US National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. McMaster and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. The Minister held a detailed meeting with the NSA at the White House […]
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1,000 shot in Chicago so far this year
CHICAGO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Chicago hit a grim milestone Tuesday, with more than a thousand people shot in the Midwestern US city since the beginning of the year. According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper 1,008 people have been shot in the city — at least 182 fatally — since the beginning of January, a pace […]
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NHL: Sharks say Thornton knee surgery ‘successful’
LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – The NHL’s San Jose Sharks said Tuesday that captain Joe Thornton underwent successful surgery to repair two damaged ligaments in his left knee. Canada’s Thornton had the procedure on Monday, and the Sharks said he is expected to make a complete recovery and be ready for the start of his […]
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BHP copper output slumps, eyes shale sell off
SYDNEY, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Mining giant BHP Billiton reported a slump in copper output Wednesday as strike action at the world’s largest mine for the metal dented production, while flagging the sale of some US shale assets. The world’s biggest miner said copper production slid 44 percent to 227,000 tonnes in the first quarter of […]
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Japan disaster minister resigns over quake gaffe
TOKYO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP): Japan’s gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to apologise to residents of the devastated northeastern region of Tohoku, which is still recovering more than six years on, after […]