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Spain election: Far-right Vox vows to back conservative Feijóo ‘for free’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

Spain’s far-right Vox party on Sunday backed down from its long-held position on being included in any national government requiring its support, saying it’s willing to back a minority government headed by the center-right Popular Party even if a future cabinet doesn’t include any of its members.In a statement, the group said its deep concern over Socialist Pedro Sánchez’s plans to remain Spain’s prime minister had led it to revise its position and offer the unconditional support of its 33 MPs to conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who needs a simple majority in the country’s parliament to back his bid to form a government.“We will not be an obstacle to avoid a government of national destruction,” Vox said in its statement.The far-right party said Sánchez’s willingness to forge a support pact with Basque and Catalan separatist groups like EH Bildu, the Basque Nationalist Party, the Republican Left of Catalonia and Junt...

Putin to visit Erdoğan at end of August: Turkish media

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could visit his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the end of this month, Turkish media reported Monday, as Ankara seeks to revive the Black Sea grain deal.Erdoğan’s Cabinet will meet Monday to discuss “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s possible visit to Turkey at the end of this month,” pro-government daily Hürriyet reported.During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Istanbul last month, the Turkish president announced Putin would travel to Turkey in August to discuss extending the deal that allowed Ukraine to continue to export its agricultural goods through the Black Sea after the full-scale Russian invasion.Bu the agreement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in the wake of last year’s invasion, ended last month after Russia unilaterally withdrew from the deal.Erdoğan has played a strategic balancing act over the course of Russia’s war. While broadly c...

‘He’s my best friend’: Dog owner’s desperate plea after beloved pet stolen from Back Bay

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

A Boston dog owner is making a desperate plea to whoever was caught on camera walking with her dog after it was stolen on Saturday. Shelly Vermani tells 7NEWS she just wants her 8-year-old Chihuahua Alejandro back unharmed after it was stolen around 10:30 a.m. in the area of 15 Westland Ave. It was last seen about a half-hour later in the area of Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard.Vermani said she left the 8-year-old dog outside the Whole Foods while she grabbed some items and was shocked to find that he was gone when she came out.“People were all around, I thought it was a safe area, and I turn around and he’s gone,” she said. “My kind naïve heart doesn’t even think that anybody would ever steal a dog .. I looked around, I was beside myself, crying, I finally called 911.” Vermani’s plea comes as Boston police are turning to the public for help identifying a person who was spotted walking with her pet.A traveling nurse, Vermani said Alejan...

20-year-old to be arraigned in deadly shooting in Myles Standish Forest in Plymouth

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

A 20-year-old man is set to be arraigned Monday in connection with a shooting in Myles Standish State Forest last month that left one man dead. John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo, 20, was arrested in New Bedford Sunday without incident, according to the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office.Monteiro Macedo is accused of shooting and killing Robert Aponte-Flores, 25, on July 12. Police said before the shooting, multiple witnesses saw Monteiro Macedo and the victim in an altercation in the state forest.Monteiro Macedo is slated to be arraigned in Plymouth District Court on one count of murder.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Police investigating shooting overnight in Revere

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

Revere police are investigating a shooting overnight on North Shore Road near the Lynn line.A large police presence could be seen gathered at the scene of the shooting.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Orioles reset: The cases for and against Jorge Mateo as a piece of the team’s playoff push

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

Jorge Mateo, manager Brandon Hyde believes, still has a role to play for the Orioles. The veracity of that largely depends on what the role is.If it’s to be a right-handed-hitting shortstop who faces left-handed pitching and plays above-average defense, then the Orioles have an upgrade available in prospect Joey Ortiz. But if it’s to be a versatile, occasionally deployed bench piece with elite speed that could be vital as a pinch-runner in the postseason, Baltimore lacks a clear alternative.Such is the dichotomy of Mateo, who was the Orioles’ best hitter in April and one of baseball’s worst since. His defense at shortstop still rates well but has dropped from the elite level he played at last season. He remains one of the sport’s fastest runners, but he reaches first base too infrequently to fully showcase that skill.After posting a team-best 1.062 OPS through the first month of the season, Mateo entered Sunday — when he started in center field fo...

2 Southern California firefighters and a pilot were killed after a midair collision, officials say

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

CABAZON, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed after two firefighting helicopters collided in Southern California on Sunday while fighting a blaze in Riverside County, emergency officials said.One of the helicopters landed safely. “Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished, which included one Cal Fire Division chief, one Cal Fire captain and one contract client pilot,” Cal Fire Southern Region Chief David Fulcher said during a news conference early Monday. Fulcher did not identify the victims.Cal Fire and Riverside County Fire Department resources were dispatched to a reported structure fire near the intersection of Broadway Street and South Ronda Avenue in the community of Cabazon, Fulcher said.Shortly after the arrival of the first engine company, the fire was reported to have extended into the vegetation and a full wildland fire dispatch was initiated, which included fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.While battling the blaze, the tw...

Rebel attack in northeastern Congo kills at least 11 people, a local official says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A rebel group has killed at least 11 people in northeastern Congo, a local official said Monday.Jonas Pandanzi, president of a local civil society organization in the Central African nation’s North Kivu province, said the victims were shot and killed early Sunday by members of M23, a rebel group the United Nations says has links to neighboring Rwanda. Rwanda denies the accusation. M23 rose to prominence 10 years ago when its fighters seized Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city, located on the border with Rwanda. It derives its name from a March 23, 2009, peace deal that the group accuses Congo’s government of failing to implement.The Sunday morning attack took place following armed confrontations between M23 and local self-defense groups near the village of Bwito, where the bodies of the 11 civilians were found, Pandanzi said. The rebel group reportedly retreated into the area, killed residents, and stole valuables. According to civil society leader Pandan...

Tens of thousands of young scouts to evacuate world jamboree in South Korea as storm Khanun looms

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will evacuate tens of thousands of scouts by bus from a coastal jamboree site as Tropical Storm Khanun looms, officials said Monday.The vehicles beginning Tuesday morning will move 36,000 scouts — mostly teenagers — from the World Scout Jamboree in the southwestern county of Buan, according to Kim Sung-ho, a vice minister at South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety.He said most of the scouts, who come from 158 countries, will be accommodated at venues in the capital city, Seoul, and the nearby metropolitan area. Officials were trying to secure spaces at government training centers and education facilities as well as hotels. Kim said it would take six hours or more to evacuate the scouts from the campsite, which organizers said will no longer be used for any event after they leave. The announcement came after The World Organization of the Scout Movement said it urgently called on South Korea to quickly move the scouts from the storm’s pa...

Troubled Toshiba announces buyout offer led by Japan businesses

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:12:16 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private, as the scandal-tarnished Japanese electronics and energy giant seeks to turn itself around.The tender offer led by a buyout fund of major Japanese banks and companies called Japan Industrial Partners starts Tuesday and is priced at 4,620 yen ($32) a share. Chairperson Akihiro Watanabe asked shareholders to back the proposal, saying it is the only option for Toshiba Corp. to return to its former strength. “This move for Toshiba is great not only for Japan but also for the world,” he said. “I have faith in the revival of Toshiba.”Tokyo-based Toshiba also reported a 25 billion yen ($176 million) loss for the April-June quarter on 704 billion yen ($5 billion) in sales, down nearly 5% from the previous year.It did not give a full fiscal year profit projection, citing uncertainties in its computer chip business. If the proposal succeeds, it will be a major step in Tos...