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    Giants of Africa, a nonprofit that seeks to improve access to basketball, has a goal to build more than 100 courts across the continent. One of its projects is Club Rafiki, a basketball center in Kigali, Rwanda.
    In Africa, NBA’s investment and ambition far outstrip other U.S. pro leagues
    The NBA has created something unprecedented among Western professional sports leagues — a comprehensive program in Africa to develop talent from a youth academy in Senegal to a pro league with teams in 19 countries.
    Isabella Giordano, circled in yellow, on July 24, 2024, in Washington, is charged with spray painting the base of a flagpole in Columbus Circle during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress
    Towson woman charged with vandalizing property during protests over Netanyahu’s DC visit
    A video posted on social media showed Isabella Giordano, 20, of Towson, using red spray paint to write “Gaza” on a fountain in front of Union Station.
    Screenshot from WJZ.
    Loved ones of American ballerina with Maryland ties push to free her from Russian prison
    Ksenia Karelina was charged with treason for a $51 Venmo donation to an American-based humanitarian group helping Ukrainians who have suffered in the war.
    Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich " in Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 19, 2024.
    US, Russia complete prisoner swap, freeing Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan
    The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War.
    U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin reaches down to shake the hand of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the start of a joint session of Congress. Cardin shared the podium with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
    Not much divided Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. Then came Israel’s Netanyahu.
    Few things separate Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. Their offices often put out joint news releases touting their accomplishments together. Not much, it seems, has separated the senior senator from his younger colleague. Except Benjamin Netanyahu.
    Frances Tiafoe has won three titles and close to $11 million in prize money on the ATP Tour.
    Marylander Frances Tiafoe skipping Olympics, will focus on US Open
    The United States Tennis Association named its Olympic team, and Marylander Frances Tiafoe was one of the noticeable omissions.
    The Johns Hopkins University encampment protesting the war in Gaza is shown on May 8, 2024. Students and protestors danced, painted signs, shared stories and chanted throughout the day.
    Commentary: Protest encampment at Johns Hopkins was peaceful, constructive
    Despite mischaracterizations about the encampment at Johns Hopkins University protesting the war in Gaza, what actually took place was peaceful and constructive, Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says.
    Signs at Johns Hopkins University amid protests of the war in Gaza and calls for university divestment in response to Israeli government actions.
    Commentary: Polarization on campus and how universities can overcome it
    Despite polarization and unrest on college and university campuses, the institutions can find ways to make constructive use of that conflict, say the University of Baltimore's president and a professor of public and international affairs.
    Photo collage shows handwritten list of weapons for “Operation Free South Sudan,” dated December 13, 2023, on left, with partial photograph of Peter Ajak. On right is an inverted map of Sudan and South Sudan with a photo of a grenade in front of it.
    A Bethesda-based peace activist is charged with being a would-be revolutionary in Africa
    Federal prosecutors allege Peter Ajak was seeking to overthrow the government of South Sudan to take power.
    Britain’s Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby’s Corner in north London in November 2023.
    Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy
    Her condition was shared after weeks of speculation on social media about her whereabouts and health since she was hospitalized in January.
    A selection of front pages from U.K. daily national newspaper coverage on the health news about King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
    How not to handle the case of a missing princess
    I don’t know where Princess Catherine is. But as a reporter, I know the royals are handling the PR around this hot mess express all wrong. Just ask Jack Ryan.
    This undated photograph released by the U.S. military’s Central Command shows what it is described as the vessel that carried Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen’s Houthi in the Arabian Sea. U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)
    US military revises account of what happened to Navy SEAL from Maryland who died in Arabian Sea
    U.S. officials are revising their preliminary findings on what happened to two Navy SEALs who died during a mission to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen.
    The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building is seen Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two people, including a defector from Iran, who had fled to the United States. The criminal case unsealed Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, is part of what Justice Department officials have described as a troubling trend of transnational repression, in which operatives from countries including Iran and China single out dissidents and defectors for campaigns of harassment, intimidation and sometimes violence.
    DOJ charges Iranian and two Canadians in murder-for-hire plot to kill 2 Maryland residents on US soil
    An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two Maryland residents, including a defector from Iran.
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown previously said the commission “must serve as a model for the entire State on how to respond to incidents of hate and bias.”
    AG reinstates Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response member after anti-Israeli posts
    Attorney General Anthony Brown has ended the suspension of Zainab Chaudry from her position on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention following outrage over her anti-Israeli social media posts.
    Shown is Shaaban Alsawada. His brother, Adnan, says he died from injuries he suffered after an Israeli missile struck a building near a family home. After Shaaban suffered shrapnel wounds, other brothers rushed him to the hospital. But the emergency room was understaffed and overwhelmed with the number of wounded, Adnan says.
    Commentary: Palestinians endure continuing loss of lives from Israeli attacks in Gaza
    With the death of his brother during Israel’s bombing of Gaza, a Palestinian American says he fears for the lives of other family members there.
    Gabi discusses her impending military service with her mom, Jamie, in their home on Oct. 19, 2023. Jamie has a folder of baby photos of Gabi to share.
    Maryland Jewish communities mobilize aid, volunteers for Israel Defense Forces
    Ever since the Israel-Hamas War erupted into an international crisis, its tremors have reverberated through families of the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas all the way to Maryland.
    Baraa Azam is shown lying in front of his destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike flattened it at the Al Zaitoun area in Gaza City. Baraa was slightly injured during the air strike. His mother says he keeps asking, "How will the bus of school manage to pick me up with all the rubble around?"
    Commentary: Israel, an occupying power, further jeopardizes Palestinians’ survival
    Without reliable access to food, water and electricity, Palestinian civilians now are subjected to intensified Israeli bombing as the latest threat to their survival, journalist Eman Mohammed says.
    Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.
    Commentary: We all must stand against terrorist attacks, antisemitism and Islamophobia
    For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.
    FILE - The terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport stands behind a Metrorail station sign, Nov. 2, 2022, in Chantilly, Va. A federal judge on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State-inspired attacks at the airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in the Washington, D.C., area.
    Judge orders release of Maryland man accused of plotting IS-inspired truck attack near DC
    Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.
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    Maryland man serving in Israel Defense Forces killed by Hezbollah missile
    Omer Balva, of Rockville, was killed near the Israel-Lebanon border by an antitank missile fired by the militant group Hezbollah, according to The Washington Post.
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