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BASKETBALL
Mar 21, 2021
The NCAA sees its worst fears realized in a canceled tournament game
It was a Faustian bargain that college basketball made last autumn when it plowed ahead with a season into the headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic. There would be games, college sports administrators declared, because there needed to be a path to the NCAA men’s tournament, which the governing body...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2018
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ buys up Commonwealth Bank of Australia's asset arm for $2.9 billion
The upheaval in Australia's scandal-tainted banking industry has handed Japan's largest banking group a long-awaited opportunity to get a bigger foothold in the global asset management industry.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2018
The Commonwealth — mother of all networks
The web of former British colonies fits like a glove with the new wave of globalization.
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BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2018
The last straw: Britain to ban sale of stirrers and other single-use plastics in bid to curb marine waste
Britain plans to ban the sale of plastic straws and other single use products and is pressing Commonwealth allies to also take action to tackle marine waste, the office of British Prime Minister Theresa May said.
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WORLD
Apr 16, 2018
Queen appoints Prince Harry as Commonwealth youth ambassador
Queen Elizabeth has appointed Prince Harry as a youth ambassador for the Commonwealth, a role that will see him encouraging young people to use the network of mostly former British colonies to address their challenges.
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WORLD
Mar 13, 2018
Meghan Markle carries out first royal engagement with U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth
Prince Harry's American fiancee, Meghan Markle, on Monday took part in her first official royal engagement with Britain's Queen Elizabeth since the couple announced they were getting married last year.
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BASKETBALL
Dec 5, 2017
GW senior Yuta Watanabe named Atlantic-10 Conference co-Player of the Week
George Washington University senior guard Yuta Watanabe and Virginia Commonwealth's Justin Tillman are the Atlantic-10 Conference's co-Players of the Week, it was announced on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2017
Trust vs. protection in trade
In 15 months, Britain will host a large meeting in London that may sound like it comes from yesterday but in fact belongs to tomorrow.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 2, 2017
Bolt says he won't compete at 2018 Commonwealth Games, keeping word on retirement
Jamaican sprint great Usain Bolt has no plans to extend his career beyond this year's world championships in London and has ruled out a return to Australia for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
Tributes to WWII POWs paid during service at Yokohama cemetery
More than 100 people attended an event in Yokohama on Saturday to pay tribute to soldiers from the British Commonwealth and other Allied nations who were taken prisoner during World War II and who later died here.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2013
Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka's affable authoritarian?
Down in the deep south of Sri Lanka, where life usually moves at a leisurely pace, there is one small town that is less tranquil. Hambantota — population 20,000 — is expanding fast. There is a vast new deepwater port, built with $360 million of borrowed Chinese cash; a new 35,000-seat cricket stadium;...

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