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Climate action must avoid fueling conflict

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

Inge Brees is a policy and outreach manager at Search for Common Ground. Harriet Mackaill-Hill is a climate and peace advocacy advisor at International Alert.Meeting the Paris Climate Agreement’s objective to limit the rise in global average temperature to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius will only be possible if we properly understand and mitigate the links between climate change and conflict.And as this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 28 approaches, this connection needs to be on everyone’s mind.Throughout the past century, the challenges of environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources have evolved into potent catalysts for global insecurity and violent conflict. From the water scarcity crisis in Yemen to land ownership disputes in Kyrgyzstan and human rights violations during mining operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we now encounter tensions that are fueled by climate-related issues and escalate into violent confrontation every day....

Joe Biden’s secret Ukraine weapon: Liz Truss

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

LONDON —  She might have crashed Britain. But can she save the world?Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss landed in Washington this week to drum up support for Ukraine among skeptical Republican lawmakers.  On both sides of the Atlantic there are hopes Truss can help steer the debate on the American right away from isolationism and toward the active international role espoused by both U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak and U.S. President Joe Biden. Truss — no fan of either man — makes for an unlikely diplomatic superhero.The trip comes barely a year after her humiliating resignation ended a disastrous tenure as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. Since the end of her 49-day stint in Downing Street, Truss has tried to carve out a place for herself as a champion of right-wing policies around the world.She is in Washington this week as part of a delegation of the Conservative Friends of Ukraine (CFU), alongside fellow former Tory leaders Iain Duncan Smith and Michae...

Police: Dozens of packages swiped from Roxbury apartment building

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

Police are investigating after more than 130 packages were stolen from an apartment building in Roxbury.Officers were called when residents of the luxury apartment building on St. Alphonses Street reported that there were no packages in the mail room.When the concierge reviewed surveillance video, it allegedly showed a man accessing the mail room by using a digital control panel. Three men then joined the original suspect in stealing the packages over the span of several hours.Residents are being encouraged to call Boston police if they believe one of their packages was stolen.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Solve It 7: Insurance Payout Problem

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

After being involved in a car crash, a Marshfield mom desperately needed her claim paid by the insurance company. But when her money accidentally went into someone else’s account, Solve It 7 helped her get it back. Brandon Gunnoe has the story.Jillian was so proud the day she bought this car“I saved up for a while for that car, and it was the first car that I’ve ever bought on my own,” Jillian said. But on a rainy day six months after she got it, Jillian got into a crash.“My feet were wet. My foot slipped off the brake. It just happened so fast that I couldn’t stop in time, and I rear-ended a pickup truck. There wasn’t a dent on his car but totaled mine,” Jillian said. Her insurance company paid the claim and sent her a payment link through Venmo to get $5100.“All I did was touch it, and assuming it was going to prompt me for like verification, phone number anything, but it didn’t. It just said right away, yo...

Kaiden Brochu’s heroics give Bay Path the Large School Vocational Bowl title

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

MILLBURY – Junior Kaiden Brochu was next to unstoppable with well over 400 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns for the Bay Path football team Wednesday night.But with the game on the line in a late deficit, and then a one-point lead to be held in the final minute, it was his teammates that stepped up to help the Minutemen win their second straight MVADA Large School Vocational Bowl title.Corey Scovil connected with Aiden Fausek for a 24-yard touchdown with 1:16 left to play, and the defense came up with just its second stop of the game in response as Bay Path (10-3) outlasted Blackstone Valley in a true shootout, 42-41.The Beavers’ desperation play at the final horn was tackled down at the Bay Path 11 by Dale Nussey.“I have all the faith in the world in (Scovil), he’s going to be a stud for us, and (Fausek) has been making those catches all year,” said Minutemen head coach Cody Giampa. “BVT is, since I’ve been at Bay Path, they’ve been the standard for football in this area. … (Th...

Wednesday’s championship scoreboard

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPSWednesday’s resultsDiv. 8 – West Boylston 41, Carver 7Div. 1 – Xaverian 31, St. John’s Prep 25MVADA Large School Bowl: Bay Path 42, Blackstone Valley 41MVADA Small School Vocational Bowl: Blue Hills 44, Tri-County 7Thursday, Nov. 30Div. 6 – No. 3 Salem (10-2) vs. No. 8 Fairhaven (11-1), 3 at GilletteDiv. 2 – No. 1 King Philip (12-0) vs. No. 3 Marshfield (9-3), 5:30 at GilletteDiv. 3 – No. 4 Walpole (9-3) vs. No. 3 Milton (8-4), 8 at GilletteFriday, December 1Div. 7 – No. 6 Amesbury (9-2) vs. No. 1 Uxbridge (12-0), 3 at GilletteDiv. 4 – No. 7 Scituate (9-3) vs. No. 1 Duxbury (10-1), 5:30 at GilletteDiv. 5 – No. 2 Foxboro (11-1) vs. No. 1 Hanover (11-1), 8 at Gillette XAVERIAN 31, ST. JOHN’S PREP 25(Division 1 state championship)St. John’s Prep (11-2)   6    6    13      0   –   25Xaverian           (11-2)   0   14     7    10   –   31SJ – Jimmy Nardone 1 run (run failed)XA – Caleb...

Death of Henry Kissinger met with polarized reaction around the world

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — World leaders and other people offered a polarized reaction Thursday to the death of the lionized and vilified former diplomat Henry Kissinger, who managed to hold global attention decades after his service as U.S. secretary of state.Former President George W. Bush struck a tone that many high-level officials, past and present, tried to convey, saying “America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices” on foreign affairs.“I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army,” Bush said in a statement. “When he later became Secretary of State, his appointment as a former refugee said as much about his greatness as it did America’s greatness.”Kissinger served two presidents, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China.Another former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said...

Suspected drug cartel gunmen abduct 7 Mexican immigration agents at gunpoint in Cancun

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Suspected drug cartel gunmen abducted seven Mexican immigration agents in Cancun at gunpoint Wednesday, beat them and threatened to kill them before there were freed. The brazen mass kidnapping occurred near Cancun’s bustling airport, and illustrated the degree to which Mexico’s cartels and criminal gangs have become involved in migrant smuggling and kidnapping.Federal forces later located the house where the agents were being held in the Caribbean resort city. The forces — apparently marines and National Guard, along with local police — engaged the kidnappers in a gun battle, and freed the agents. They did not say whether anyone was wounded in the confrontation.The agents said after they were released that the gunmen threatened to kill them unless they allowed migrants to be smuggled through the airport and other parts of the coastal state of Quintana Roo. It was the first such mass abduction of immigration agents in Mexico, and the National Immigration Institute...

Scottie Barnes, Pascal Siakam help Raptors upset Suns

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

Pascal Siakam scored 22 points and pulled down nine rebounds as the Toronto Raptors upset Phoenix for a 112-105 win on Wednesday, snapping the Suns’ seven-game win streak.Scottie Barnes had 12 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter for Toronto (9-10), adding seven rebounds and four assists. Precious Achiuwa had his first double-double of the campaign with 14 points and 10 rebounds for a season-high in both categories.Dennis Schroder, who tweaked his knee in a 115-103 loss to the Brooklyn Nets the night before, played 33 minutes with eight points and 12 assists.Kevin Durant led Phoenix (11-7) with 30 points. Jusuf Nurkic had a double-double with 19 points and 14 rebounds as the Suns lost for the first time since Nov. 12.The Raptors were delayed getting out of Brooklyn on Tuesday, forcing the team to cancel morning shootaround as players and coaches rested after the long trip home.“Hopefully we had enough time to get quality sleep and get ready ove...

Colombian judge orders prison for 2 suspects in the kidnapping of parents of Liverpool soccer player

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:47 GMT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge, Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday, accusing one of the men of being the link to a person close to the family who provided information about the victims.Andrés Alcires Bolívar and Marlon Rafael Brito are also accused of maintaining contacts with members of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, in the planning and execution of the Oct. 28 abductions in Barrancas, a town in La Guajira in Colombia’s northeast of Colombia.Díaz’s parents – Luis Manuel Díaz Jiménez and Cilenis Marulanda — were kidnapped by a unit of the ELN at a gas station by armed men on motorcycles.Marulanda was rescued by police a few hours later, but Díaz’s father was held captive for 12 days by the ELN. The father was released on Nov. 9 near the Serranía del Perijá, bordering Venezuela, where facilitators from the Catholic Church and the United Nations ha...