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Toronto fans celebrate at York and Front Streets after Toronto beat the Golden State Warriors in game six to win the NBA Champoionship at Oracle Arena in Oakland ouside

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became the 2019 NBA champions Thursday night, and they are the first team outside the US to do it.

Thursday’s game was tight, going back and forth between the Raptors and the Golden State Warriors. But the Raptors took the game in the end with a 114-110 for a 4-2 series victory.

The game ended the 2019 championship series and was a first-time win for the Raptors, who made their NBA Finals debut in their 24th season.

Kawhi Leonard, the All-Star forward Toronto acquired last summer from San Antonio, was named Finals MVP for the second time. Leonard is the third player to win the award with more than one franchise, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James.

US releases video it claims shows Iran removing unexploded mine from Gulf tanker:

The United States military on Thursday released a video that it says shows an Iranian navy boat removing an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Japanese-owned chemical tanker Kokura Courageous, one of two tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday blamed Iran for attacking the Kokura Courageous and another ship, Norwegian-owned Front Altair, saying the assessment was based on intelligence. Later Thursday night, US Central Command relea

‘Toy Story 4’ delivers another cinematic grand slam:

“Toy Story 4” delivers a cinematic grand slam, a nine-years-later sequel that’s wholly equal to the high expectations raised by the terrific trio that it follows. Touching, raucously funny, adventurous and yes, even profound, Pixar’s signature property once again touches them all.

It’s a towering accomplishment, one that shouldn’t be taken for granted given the fact that “Toy Story’s” original director and Pixar’s creative mastermind, John Lasseter, was forced to take a leave of absence in 2017 and eventually exit the company. Josh Cooley served as the director, but with the script credited to Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom and the story to several others, this was clearly a group effort, one assembled with tender loving care.

Ebola outbreak enters ‘truly frightening phase’ as it turns deadly in Uganda:

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made the long-feared jump across borders with three cases confirmed Wednesday in Uganda, including the death of a 5-year-old boy who had the virus.

The World Health Organization and Ugandan health authorities said Tuesday that the Congolese boy had traveled from Congo on Sunday and entered Uganda with his family and sought medical care.

The other two confirmed cases are the boy’s 3-year-old brother and his grandmother, 50. They are being treated under isolation at the Bwera Hospital Ebola Treatment Unit, in the west of Uganda, the country’s Ministry of Health said.

Edith Gonzalez, Telenovela star, dies at 54:

Mexican telenovela star Edith Gonzalez died Thursday, three years after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

She was 54.

Her death was confirmed by the official Mexican news agency Notimex and the TV stations for which she worked, Televisa and TV Azteca.

CNN reached out to her publicist and the agency that represents her but hasn’t received a response.

The actress revealed in August 2016 that doctors discovered cancerous tissue in her abdomen. Her cancer entered remission in 2017 but returned sometime this year.

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