New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys defensive back Jakar Hamilton four games for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. Hamilton will miss the first four games of the 2014 season and will be eligible to return after the team’s Week 4 contest against New Orleans. The South …
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Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – Mario Chalmers is returning to the Miami Heat. The Heat officially re-signed the 6-foot-2 point guard on Monday. Chalmers, who has spent his entire six-year NBA career with the Heat, started each of the 73 games in which he appeared last season and averaged 9.8 points, …
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ALAMEDA, Calif. – Oakland Raiders rookie quarterback Derek Carr returned to practice three days after being knocked out of a preseason game with a concussion and sore ribs. Carr practiced on a limited basis Monday and his status for the upcoming exhibition game in Green Bay on Friday night remains …
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LATROBE, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Steelers are going shopping. General manager Kevin Colbert said Monday the team hopes to use some of its remaining room under the salary cap to lock down a potential free agent before the regular season begins. The Steelers have four starters entering the final year …
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HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam’s prime minister on Thursday ordered a swift investigation into a scaffolding collapse that killed 13 workers and injured dozens, while a unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group involved in the construction project offered initial assistance to victims’ families. All the victims were Vietnamese subcontractors working on …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Thursday that a team of special operatives has freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen, a rare acknowledgement by Tehran of an intel operation carried out on foreign soil. The official IRNA news agency quoted deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian …
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TORONTO – A Canadian special forces soldier was killed and three others wounded in a friendly fire incident in northern Iraq, Canada’s defense department said Saturday. Canadian troops training local forces had just returned to an observation post at the front line Friday night when they were mistakenly fired upon …
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MINSK, Belarus – The United States is lifting sanctions on a Belarus energy company, underscoring a thaw in relations in the wake of Minsk’s key role in negotiations over Ukraine. The US announced online that it was lifting sanctions against Belorusneft that were implemented in 2011 in response to the …
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ISLAMABAD – A government lawyer says a Pakistani court has ordered the release of the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks because it found no solid incriminating evidence and also a three-month detention period has expired. But lawyer Jahangir Jadoon said Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi is unlikely to be released …
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KOSTYANTYNIVKA , Ukraine – Residents in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka have angrily confronted regional officials over an accident in which an armored military vehicle struck and killed a 6-year old girl. Donetsk region head of police Vyacheslav Abroskin on Tuesday traveled to the town in a bid to …
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