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MIAMI — The Miami Marlins acquired Jeff Francoeur from the Atlanta Braves in a three-team trade Wednesday night, hoping the well-traveled outfielder can provide a boost toward a playoff spot. Francoeur was the only major leaguer included in the deal that also involved Texas. Any big league player traded after Aug. 1 had to first […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — The National Olympic Committee of Kenya was disbanded by the government on Thursday and an investigation launched into alleged mismanagement of the country’s team at the Rio de Janeiro Games. The problems faced by the team in Rio damaged the morale of athletes, Kenya sports minister Hassan Wario said. Those problems included […]

MOSCOW — The Russian anti-doping agency says a coach linked to more than 20 doping cases has lost his appeal against a life ban from athletics. Viktor Chegin was banned in March on evidence he oversaw mass doping by Russian race walkers at his training center, the base for many Olympic and world championship medalists. […]

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — While Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton expects to swallow a severe grid penalty at the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend, Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg hopes to take advantage. Hamilton won six of the past seven races to turn a 43-point deficit into a 19-point lead heading into the summer break. But, after […]

NEW YORK — Stocks are mostly unchanged in morning trading Thursday as investors sift through a handful of earnings reports. Several companies including HP and Dollar General fell after their results disappointed investors. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average was flat at 18,480 as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 […]

TEHRAN, Iran — The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimi’s life but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor. Iran’s kidney program stands apart from other organ donation systems around the world by openly […]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is nominating current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim for a second term leading the 189-nation international lending organization. In making the announcement Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew praised Kim for using his first term at the World Bank to effectively address “today’s most pressing global challenges in innovative ways, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Global messaging service WhatsApp says it will start sharing the phone numbers of its users with Facebook, its parent company. That means WhatsApp users could soon start seeing more targeted ads on Facebook — although not on the messaging service itself. The move is a subtle but significant shift for WhatsApp, which […]

PODGORICA, Montenegro — For a priest in Montenegro, Pokemons are no game. Father Rafailo of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro has denounced the fictional figures in the “Pokemon Go” reality game as demons hailing an upcoming evil. Rafailo said in a service earlier this month that “Pokemons, or demons, are a quite serious appearance […]

TOKYO — Global stocks fell Thursday in lackluster trading as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen on Friday for hints on a possible further interest rate increase. KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX dropped 0.9 percent to 10,529 after a survey showed business confidence fell unexpectedly in August, possibly in a delayed reaction […]