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MIAMI — A Knicks season that began with mild expectations and turned into what some fans called the team’s most exciting run in more than 20 years ended Friday night with a 96-92 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.Jalen Brunson nearly carried the Knicks to a win, consistently scoring each time the game appeared to be slipping away. He had 41 points, which led all scorers. But Brunson’s teammates struggled; Julius Randle and RJ Barrett combined to shoot 4 of 24 for 26 points. Jimmy Butler led the Heat with 24 points.Barrett acknowledged…

Sadek Wahba, founder of I Squared CapitalPhoto courtesy Sadek WahbaThe next few decades are critical for humanity to respond to climate change. They’re also going to see a massive trend of building and urbanization as millions of people move to cities.The confluence of those two massive global trends holds countless climate challenges — and similarly expansive opportunities for investors, says Sadek Wahba, the founder and chairman of I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure management company that currently manages around $40 billion worth of investments in infrastructure projects in over 50 countries.”Investing in infrastructure, climate-related technology is the future,” Wahba told…

Palm Springs conjures many images in the popular imagination: California oasis, Old Hollywood hide-out, golf and tennis hot spot, midcentury modern pilgrimage site. But long before Richard Neutra’s airy, glassy Kaufmann House or John Lautner’s concrete-domed Elrod House, there was Welwood Murray’s rickety wooden bathhouse.That two-room shack, built over a hot spring in the late 1880s, was one of the first tourist attractions in the Coachella Valley — newly accessible by railroad to people with tuberculosis and other ailments who were seeking relief in the desert air and mineral water.Mr. Murray, a Scottish rancher and entrepreneur, had secured a lease…

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Hundreds of people came together in Penticton, B.C, on Friday for an anti-racism forum. The event, Confronting the White Elephant Exploring Anti-Racism, was hosted by South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services (SOICS).“We’re hoping that this is just the start, that this starts more conversations, more learning about what is anti-racism and what we could all be doing to make more inclusive and equitable communities,” said SOICS Executive Director Cherry Fernandez.“The title, Confronting the White Elephant, actually comes from a story in the East. The white elephant is looked at as a luxurious gift, often given by royalty, and as such…

US ambassador to Pretoria summoned after saying he was confident that a Russian ship had collected weapons from South Africa.South African officials have hit back at US accusations that a Russian ship collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town late last year. The US Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship under US sanctions took on board weapons from the Simon’s Town base in December, suggesting the transfer was not in line with Pretoria’s stance of neutrality in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Western diplomats were alarmed at South Africa…

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto’s hopes of a day off from the Moira Deeming saga have been dashed as an attempt to shift attention to stamp duty veered back to the controversial MP.The opposition leader was in Frankston calling for the removal of stamp duty for first homes valued up to $1 million when he was quizzed about Ms Deeming’s expulsion from the Liberal Party and threats of legal action.”We are totally focused on the state budget coming up and holding the government to account,” Mr Pesutto told reporters.”Whatever happens in relation to Ms Deeming is a matter for her.”The…

But so was a model Pakistan Air Force jet, army installations in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and even the house of the senior military officer in Lahore once owned by Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. There’s no doubt in the protestors’ minds of who is to blame for Khan’s arrest: Pakistan’s military, which has run the country openly and from the shadows for most of its independent history. We don’t know the truth of the many corruption allegations against Khan. The one he was arrested for involves Pakistan’s largest construction magnate, who was supposed to hand over £190 million…

Africa remains the poorest region in the world. The reasons for poverty in Africa cannot be narrowed down to a single cause. Some factors bedeviling Africa require good governance and effective policy making on the part of Africa. However, some causes of poverty in Africa require global cooperation to solve. Reasons for Africa’s poverty range from poor governance, corruption, wars and violence. In addition, disease burden and poor education are also contributing to poverty in Africa. We have developed a list of the top eight reasons why Africa is still poor.Introduction  Africa has gone through some economic, social, and demographic changes…

For more than a decade, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu struggled in the shadow of his rival Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s most electorally successful politician. The mild-mannered, bespectacled former bureaucrat seemed the antithesis to Erdogan’s bombastic style and was therefore doomed – according to the perceived wisdom – to yet another loss at the polls. Some opposition supporters even feared his presidential candidacy would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as Erdogan has struggled with an economic crisis and the aftermath of February’s deadly earthquakes in southeastern Turkey. However, since the March announcement that he would stand as the…