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Love of basketball put Bryant, others on final fatal flight

Love of basketball put Bryant, others on final fatal flight

LOS ANGELES — The six passengers travelling with Kobe Bryant and his daughter in the helicopter that crashed into a Southern California mountainside last month were joined by their love of basketball.
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Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series 'Hunters'

Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series 'Hunters'

WARSAW, Poland — The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no such thing took place at the camp.
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B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

NEW YORK — Barbara “B.
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Supreme Court won't hear case brought by author Jon Krakauer

Supreme Court won't hear case brought by author Jon Krakauer

WASHINGTON — The educational records of a star University of Montana quarterback accused of rape will remain confidential after the Supreme Court declined to get involved in the case brought by author Jon Krakauer.
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2nd person in days killed by Mardi Gras float in New Orleans

2nd person in days killed by Mardi Gras float in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS — A man was struck and killed by a Mardi Gras float during a raucous weekend street parade in New Orleans, becoming the second person in days killed along a parade route during this year's Carnival season, authorities said.
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South Korea put on high alert, Italy battles virus outbreak

South Korea put on high alert, Italy battles virus outbreak

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea’s president said Sunday that he was putting his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, ordering officials to take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a soaring viral outbreak, while a contin
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Nine dead in Turkey as 5.7 earthquake strikes western Iran

Nine dead in Turkey as 5.7 earthquake strikes western Iran

ANKARA, Turkey — Nine people were killed in eastern Turkey by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake early Sunday morning, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
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Raf Simons joining Prada in full creative collaboration

Raf Simons joining Prada in full creative collaboration

MILAN — Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons — two of the fashion world's biggest creative names — will collaborate on Prada collections from Spring/Summer 2021 going forward indefinitely, the designers announced Sunday at a press conference on the sidelines
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Virus closes doors at Armani, but other Milan shows go on

Virus closes doors at Armani, but other Milan shows go on

MILAN — After Giorgio Armani’s last-minute decision to show his latest collection in an empty theatre due to concerns about the new virus, the rest of Milan's runway shows scheduled for Sunday are to go ahead as planned, fashion officials confirmed.
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Infections climb in South Korea as world fights virus

Infections climb in South Korea as world fights virus

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital, while the death toll in Iran climbed to six and a dozen towns in Italy effectively wen
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