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G7 calls for extension of Black Sea grain deal

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

The Group of Seven on Sunday called for the “extension, full implementation and expansion” of a grain deal that has been essential to export Ukrainian produce through the Black Sea. G7 agriculture ministers “recognized the importance” of the deal, following a two-day meeting in Miyazaki, Japan. “We strongly support the extension, full implementation and expansion” of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, they said in a communiqué.Under the pact, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, some 28 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain have been exported since last July, including to poor countries facing the brunt of the global food crisis.But Russia is threatening to walk away from the agreement unless its demands are met, portending a return to the full-scale maritime blockade that halted Ukraine’s grain exports in the months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February last year. The Kremlin has warned that ship registrations would only contin...

Send warships to Taiwan Strait, Borrell urges EU governments

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

BRUSSELS — EU member countries should deploy warships to patrol the Taiwan Strait in order to deter Beijing’s military aggression, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.In an article published in Le Journal du Dimanche on Saturday, Borrell took a swipe at French President Emmanuel Macron’s sense of detachment on Taiwan as reflected in an interview with POLITICO earlier this month. Borrell argued in the French publication that “Europe must in fact be very present on this issue [of Taiwan], which concerns us economically, commercially and technologically.”Borrell continued: “That is why I call on European navies to patrol the Taiwan Strait to signify Europe’s commitment to freedom of navigation in this absolutely crucial area. At the same time, we must be vigilant against provocations and overbidding.”“The vast majority of the Taiwanese population believe that the peaceful status quo is the most appropriate solution. L...

Police investigating fatal Hyde Park shooting, two victims dead from gunshot wounds

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

Boston police are searching for a shooter after a person was fatally shot while sitting in a car in Hyde Park on Saturday night, officials said.Officers responding to a reported shooting at 36 Dedham Street around 9:30 p.m. found an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound, according to Boston police. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released.While responding, officers learned another gunshot victim had walked into Milton Hospital, and a preliminary investigation ties these two incidents together. This adult male was pronounced dead at the hospital.No further information has been released.Anyone with information is urged to call Boston police. If you would prefer to share information anonymously you can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line AT 1-800 (494) -TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Motorcyclist killed in head-on crash in Merrimack, NH

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

A 37-year-old Merrimack, New Hampshire man was killed when the motorcycle he was riding hit a vehicle head-on in Merrimack on Saturday afternoon, officials said.Officers responding to a reported crash around 2:15 p.m. determined Joshua Danforth crossed over the center line and struck a 2018 GMC pickup head-on, according to police.The crash remains under investigation.Anyone with information is asked to call Merrimack police at 603-420-1867.

See the Good: Harvard Law student is giving back to school support staff

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

Harvard Law student Rehan Staton is gaining national recognition for the second time, and this time, it’s for giving back.“I’m just simply giving back to those who give to me every single day,” Staton said.The 27-year-old from Maryland collected garbage for years to afford his undergraduate degree. He says the sanitation company he was working for at the time helped him get back to school, and he was accepted into Harvard Law School.His success story went viral, and now he’s making a difference for sanitation workers at the university. Staton says it all started when he said hello to a custodian in the hallway.“She said me? I said yes you, how are you doing? And she said I’m sorry, I’m sorry, students don’t talk to me. Students would rather look at the wall then talk to me,” he said. “I was kind of taken back, and I said, ‘oh I’m sorry, I’m going to talk to you though.'”Staton began developing relationships with the school suppor...

Crews free trapped passenger from Lakeville crash that left 4 hospitalized

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

Four were hospitalized after a single-car crash Saturday night in Lakeville, and one passenger had to be extricated from the car using hydraulic tools, officials said.The Lakeville Fire Department responded after getting multiple 911 calls around 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Three of the four people had removed themselves from the car, but when the car collided with trees off the roadway, the fourth passenger was trapped. Crews used the Jaws of Life to free them.All four were sent to three different hospitals with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, officials said.

Low ‘concerning’ number of North Atlantic right whale births reported this season: New England Aquarium

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

As North Atlantic right whale calving season ends, New England Aquarium scientists are sounding the alarm that the number of mother-calf pairs documented this season is far below what’s needed to sustain the critically endangered species.The annual calving season in the southeastern U.S. produced 11 mother-calf pairs and a 12th calf without an observed mother. Nine of those calves were born by the end of December, with the last one detected on Jan. 20.In the last 10 years, scientists have documented 108 calves born, while the previous 10 years yielded 216 calves.“There were half as many right whales born this past decade,” said senior scientist Philip Hamilton, who leads the New England Aquarium’s right whale research program in the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life.“To reach the previous decade’s number, we would need an average of 22 right whales born each year,” Hamilton added. “It is certainly concerning for a population that ha...

Massachusetts State Police investigating after dead body found along Charles River in Newton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

State Police are investigating the death of a person who was found along the Charles River in Newton Saturday night, according to police.Troopers from the State Police-Boston Barracks and local police responded at about 8 p.m., to Forte Park along the Charles River after the dead body was discovered.The location is state Department of Conservation and Recreation property.“Troopers from the State Police Troop H Detective Unit, the State Police Detective Unit for Middlesex County, and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section also responded and at this time continue to investigate the identity of the body and the facts and circumstances of the death,” a Massachusetts State Police spokesperson said in a statement.Related ArticlesCrime & Public Safety | Easter fire that destroyed Cambridge church investigated as ‘suspected arson,’ police ask public for help Crime & Public Safety | Police investigate discovery infant remains ...

Peru’s ex-president returned home to face corruption charges

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former President Alejandro Toledo arrived in Lima Sunday after being extradited from the United States to face charges he allegedly received millions of dollars in bribes in a giant corruption scandal that has ensnared four of Peru’s ex-presidents. Toledo, who was Peru’s president from 2001 to 2006, had surrendered to U.S. authorities on Friday, ending a yearslong legal battle against his extradition, which started in 2019 when he was arrested at his home in Menlo Park, California. Police and officials from Peru’s prosecutor’s office received Toledo, 77, at Lima’s airport early Sunday. Police released a photo of Toledo, looking disheveled, accompanied by agents. He was transferred to a court in Lima’s historic center. Peru’s former president will serve 18 months of preventative detention while he is investigated for allegedly taking at least $20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a giant Brazilian construction company that has admitted to U.S. authorities that...

Sudan fighting hastens evacuations of diplomats, citizens

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:17:42 GMT

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Foreign governments evacuated diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan on Sunday as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday.While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos. Many traveled risked dangerous roads to seek safer spots or crossed the northern frontier into Egypt.“My family — my mother, my siblings and my nephews — are on the road from Sudan to Cairo through Aswan,” prominent Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abual-Ala wrote on Facebook.Fighting raged in Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Khartoum, residents said, despite a hoped-for cease-fire to coincide with the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.“We did not see such a truce,” Amin al-Tayed said from his home near state TV headquarters in Omdurman, adding that heavy gunfire and thundering explosions rocked the cit...