The San Antonio Spurs moved one win away from reaching the NBA Western Conference finals with a dominant 118-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. The Spurs, who had won the first two games of the best-of-seven second-round series at home, showed…
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Troy Daniels hit a three pointer in the closing seconds of overtime to lift the Houston Rockets to a 121-116 win over Portland in a Western Conference playoff contest. James Harden tallied 37 points and Dwight Howard finished with 24 points and 14 rebounds…
Referees made an incorrect call late in the final seconds of Portland’s 122-120 NBA playoff victory Sunday over Houston, the league said Monday. The over-time road triumph gave the Trail Blazers a 1-0 edge over the Rockets in their best-of-seven Western…
Weekend drone strikes in Yemen killed more than 40 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including 30 on Sunday, days after the jihadist network’s Arabian Peninsula offshoot vowed to fight against Western “crusaders”. The United States is the only country that…
Kevin Durant scored 33 points on Saturday to lead Oklahoma City to a 100-86 triumph over Memphis in game one of their NBA Western Conference playoff series. Durant connected on five of six shots from the field as he delivered 13 points in the fourth…
Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders scrambled on Friday to find new sources of energy after Russia hiked its gas price by 80 percent in response to the overthrow of Kiev’s pro-Kremlin regime. The crisis-hit nation saw the amount it must pay for 1,000 cubic…
Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders on Thursday blamed Russian agents and the country’s ousted president of organising two days of bloodshed in February that claimed nearly 90 lives. The explosive allegations were levelled only moments before Russia responded…
NATO said Tuesday it has suspended all cooperation with Russia over the Crimea crisis and questioned Moscow’s claim to have withdrawn troops from near the Ukrainian border, saying it could not confirm any pullback. The Western alliance’s latest statements…