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Four-ever? Marcial says second arc will stay ‘for as long as I am commissioner’

As the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) enters its second season with a four-point line, commissioner Willie Marcial confirmed the arc is here to stay—at least for the foreseeable future. “I think it will stay forever,” Marcial said, before backtracking: “As long as I’m commissioner, the four-point line will be used.” The 2024-25 season served as

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Kemi Badenoch expected to announce plan to leave ECHR

Move to come if Conservatives win next election and is calculated to head off growing support for Reform UKUK politics live latest updatesKemi Badenoch is expected to announce a plan this weekend to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR) if the Conservatives win the next election, as the party attempts to halt a haemorrhaging of support to Reform UK. The move will be seized on by political opponents as evidence the Tories have lurched to the right Russia and Belarus are the two other European countries that have opted out of the ECHR while it could lose the party support from the political centre.