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Former A’s pitcher Mark Mulder is set to join the club’s broadcast team as a color commentator for 20 telecasts this season, CSN California announced Friday.
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DALLAS – Before the Thunder left for its longest road trip of the season, Thunder players up and down the roster stated
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Global stock markets rally for a second day, boosted by rising oil prices and hopes of more stimulus measures from central banks.
BBC News – Business

The BBC obtains satellite imagery which appears to show the US expanding an air strip in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria.
BBC News – Middle East

Haiti’s president says a runoff to choose the nation’s next leader will take place on Sunday despite threats of an opposition boycott.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

At least 42 migrants have drowned off the Greek coast in two separate shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea, officials say.
BBC News – Europe

The criminal record checks scheme – under which people applying for certain jobs must disclose previous convictions – has been ruled “arbitrary” and unlawful by the High Court.
BBC News – UK

A huge blizzard has begun to hit the US east coast and is expected to dump near-record levels of snow from Washington to New York.
BBC News – US & Canada

The Tunisian interior ministry announces a nationwide curfew in response to protests over unemployment, saying national security is at stake.
BBC News – Africa

Cubs prospect Willson Contrerast, a converted catcher coming off a breakout campaign in Double-A, leads the 2016 Top 10 Catching Prospects list, while Yankees slugger Gary Sanchez re-enters at No. 2 after failing […]

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Individual game tickets for A’s regular-season home games, several of which feature enticing promotions, are set to go on sale Friday, the club has announced. The club has also announced planned giveaways and […]

The help side defender had just barely started his move over to the right block when a whizzing, whirring sphere flashed through the lane
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European markets open slightly higher, a day after global turmoil saw billions wiped off the value of shares.
BBC News – Business

A Syrian opposition committee has named an Islamist rebel as its chief negotiator at peace talks that the UN hopes to convene in Geneva on Monday.
BBC News – Middle East

New figures from Brazil’s Health Ministry show a further rise in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads to mothers infected with Zika.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The long-awaited findings of a public inquiry into the killing in London of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are due to be released by a judge.
BBC News – Europe

A report into cases of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile linked to the BBC is set to criticise the corporation’s culture, according to an “early draft” leaked to a news website.
BBC News – UK

US President Barack Obama pledges his support to the Michigan city beset by a water contamination crisis, saying people have been “short-changed”.
BBC News – US & Canada

Four terror suspects in Kenya are killed during a raid in the coastal town of Malindi, recovering maps detailing future attacks, police say.
BBC News – Africa