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Jaylen Brown and Derrick White powered a 51-point second quarter as the Boston Celtics extended their winning streak to six games with a dominant 126-94 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday. Brown scored 13 points, while White added 12, helping the Celtics tie an NBA record with 12 3-pointers in the period. Boston finished the game with 22 made 3-pointers on 51 attempts, shooting 43.1% from beyond the arc. Kristaps Porzingis made his season debut for Boston after missing the first 17 games following offseason foot surgery. The Celtics now hold the longest active winning streak in the…
Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that if the West supplied nuclear weapons to Ukraine then Moscow could consider such a transfer to be tantamount to an attack on Russia, providing grounds for a nuclear response. The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested that U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons, though there were fears such a step would have serious implications. “American politicians and journalists are seriously discussing the consequences of the transfer of nuclear weapons to Kyiv,” Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president from 2008 to…
The prospect of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah without a similar deal with Hamas in Gaza has left Palestinians feeling abandoned and fearful that Israel will focus squarely on its onslaught in the enclave. The Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing missiles at Israel in solidarity with Hamas after the Palestinian resistance group attacked Israel in October of 2023, triggering the Gaza war. Hostilities in Lebanon have drastically escalated in the last two months, with Israel stepping up airstrikes and sending in ground forces to Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah sustaining rocket fire on Israel. Now Israel looks set to…
President-elect Donald Trump’s team is discussing pursuing direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, hoping a fresh diplomatic push can lower the risks of armed conflict, according to two people familiar with the matter. Several in Trump’s team now see a direct approach from Trump, to build on a relationship that already exists, as most likely to break the ice with Kim, years after the two traded insults and what Trump called “beautiful” letters in an unprecedented diplomatic effort during his first term in office, the people said. The policy discussions are fluid and no final decisions have…
Russia is carrying out “genocidal activities” by laying landmines on Ukraine’s territory, an official from Kyiv’s defence ministry told a landmine conference in Cambodia on Tuesday. Russia was planting landmines in “cities, farming households, public transport stations”, said Oleksandr Riabtsev of Kyiv’s defence ministry, adding these “genocidal activities” had affected areas home to six million Ukrainians.
The United Arab Emirates thanked Türkiye on Tuesday for cooperating on the arrest of suspects in the killing of Israeli rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was a resident of the UAE. The message of thanks came from the director of strategic communications at the Emirati foreign ministry in a post on X.
A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Catherine Norris Trent, a reporter for the France24 news channel, on a charge of crossing illegally into its western Kursk region, state news agency TASS said on Tuesday. It said she had entered the region with the Ukrainian military in order to file a report. Russia has launched criminal cases against a number of Western journalists who have reported from Kursk, where Ukrainian troops broke across the border on Aug. 6 and have carved out a slice of Russian territory. The proceedings have been launched in absentia, and the orders mean the…
Billionaire Elon Musk has been using his social media platform X to go to bat for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and promote his own preferred candidates, advocating for choices he views as change agents who will help remake the U.S. government. In several high-profile cases, however, Musk backed people who either lost out on the roles or withdrew from consideration, suggesting some early limits to the Republican mega donor’s influence even as he has emerged as one of Trump’s most powerful allies. Musk, who has 206 million followers on X, posted or reposted about Trump’s cabinet picks more than…
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven democracies on Tuesday expressed their support for Ukraine and condemned what they described as Russia’s “irresponsible and threatening nuclear rhetoric”. They also warned that North Korean support for Russia marked a dangerous expansion of the conflict, with serious consequences for European and Indo-Pacific security, and called on China, a long-standing ally of North Korea, to act against it. “Russia’s use of an intermediate range ballistic missile on 21 November is further evidence of its reckless and escalatory behaviour,” they said in a joint statement at the conclusion of their meeting. “Our support for…
AC Milan earned their third successive Champions League win with a 3-2 victory at Slovan Bratislava on Tuesday, hanging on after the home side scored a late goal. The first half ended level with Milan’s Christian Pulisic opening the scoring in the 21st minute before a quick counter-attack led to Slovan’s Tigran Barseghyan equalising three minutes later. Milan struggled to put Slovan away before substitute Rafael Leao put them back in front in the 68th minute and Tammy Abraham capitalised on a horror back-pass from David Strelec to extend their lead three minutes later. Slovan pulled a goal back through…