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US NBA forward Love to miss Olympics with calf injury

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NBA Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love, a member of the 2012 US Olympic championship team, will miss the Tokyo Olympics with a right calf injury, according to US media reports Friday.

Love, who spent the past 11 days with the American squad, missed part of the 2020-21 NBA campaign with the injury.

The 32-year-old brought size and experience to a USA squad lacking both and his absence leaves two holes to fill after Washington guard Bradley Beal was ruled out for Tokyo on Thursday after being placed into Covid-19 health and safety protocols.

“I am incredibly disappointed to not be heading to Tokyo with Team USA, but you need to be at absolute peak performance to compete at the Olympic level and I am just not there yet,” Love said in a statement to ESPN.

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The Americans, who are set to open Olympic play on July 25 against France, will replace Love and Beal with Denver Nuggets center JaVale McGee and San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson, according to an ESPN report citing unnamed sources.

McGee, a three-time NBA champion, was among the finalists for a spot on the Olympic squad. Johnson, who plays for US coch Gregg Popovich on the NBA Spurs, has played for the USA select squad that has served as practice opponents and roster support for the Americans.

Three members of the US Olympic team — Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday and Phoenix’s Devin Booker — are still playing in the NBA Finals.

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.