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Unvaccinated NBA players face strict protocols – reports

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Unvaccinated NBA players will be kept apart from vaccinated teammates and will be required to undergo more stringent testing as part of Covid-19 protocols proposed for the upcoming season, ESPN reported on Thursday.

The network reported that under a memo detailing the new protocols already sent to teams, unvaccinated players will be given lockers as far as possible from vaccinated players.

Unvaccinated individuals would also be required to sit in different areas from vaccinated teammates when dining or travelling on planes and buses, the report said.

More frequent testing for unvaccinated players is also detailed in the proposals. Unvaccinated players will need to be tested on game days and practice days and could even be required to be tested twice on game days.

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However vaccinated players will only need to be tested if they show symptoms of Covid-19 or come into contact with someone infected with the virus.

Unvaccinated players who come into close contact with a positive case will have to submit to a mandatory seven-day quarantine.

Vaccinated players will not be required to face quarantine, provided they don not test positive for the virus.

ESPN said the protocols had not yet been made final and talks between the league and the National Basketball Players Association were ongoing.

The NBA’s 2021-2022 regular season gets under way on October 19, with the Brooklyn Nets facing the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers hosting the Golden State Warriors.

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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.