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    The Wider Image: In FIBA World Cup host Philippines, basketball

    Children play basketball on the rooftop of tenement housing in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, May 17, 2023. Basketball is played everywhere and by almost everyone in the Philippines, which counts the sport as a national obsession along with boxing and beauty pageants. Enthusiasm for the sport is only intensifying ahead of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which opens in Manila on Friday. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
    The Wider Image: In FIBA World Cup host Philippines, basketball
    The Wider Image: In FIBA World Cup host Philippines, basketball

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