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Jimmy Butler goes on personal leave, misses Heat’s game against Celtics

MIAMI (AP) — Heat star forward Jimmy Butler missed Miami’s game against the Boston Celtics on Sunday because of personal reasons. The club has granted Butler a leave of absence after the death of a family member. It has not been determined how long Butler will be away from the team, which has games at Milwaukee and Philadelphia this week …

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Indonesia’s president, who mingles with people and listens to Metallica, still popular in last term

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia spotlighted how far the world’s third-largest democracy had veered from a brutal authoritarian era decades ago. With his second and final five-year term ending in October, Widodo — regarded by some as Asia’s Barack Obama — is leaving a …

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