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Afghans fleeing Pakistan lack water, food and shelter once they cross the border, aid groups say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghans fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross the border to their homeland, aid agencies said Sunday.Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as authorities pursue foreigners they say are in the country illegally, going door-to-door to check migrants’ documentation. Pakistan set Oct.31 as a deadline to leave the country or else they’d be arrested as part of a new anti-migrant crackdown.Afghans leave Pakistan from two main border crossings, Torkham and Chaman. The Taliban have set up camps on the other side for people to stay in while they wait to be moved to their place of origin in Afghanistan. Aid agencies said Torkham has no proper shelter. There is limited access to drinking water, no heating source other than open fires, no lighting, and no toilets. There is open defecation and poor hygiene. U.N. agencies and aid groups ...

Man City, Bayern, Madrid and Barcelona can advance in Champions League by extending perfect starts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — The Champions League is a showcase of the world’s best club teams and, this week, possible respite for others enduring painful seasons.Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid all can advance to the Champions League round of 16 with a fourth straight win in their groups. Each is at home against an opponent it beat on the road three weeks ago.It is a different story for their domestic rivals Manchester United, Union Berlin and Sevilla.In Manchester, the divide between City and United was clear when the defending European and English champion coasted to a 3-0 win at Old Trafford last weekend. United has stunningly lost five home games already this season, though did scratch out a 1-0 win against Copenhagen, which it plays Wednesday in Denmark. Bayern has won 16 straight group-stage games in the Champions League and has not lost one since 2017. On Saturday, Bayern humiliated Borussia Dortmund 4-0 in its own stadium, fired by Harry Kane’s third hat trick of the...

‘The kitchen is a place of healing’: DC-area chef helping people get in touch with their inner kitchen

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

Madea Allen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), chef and a holistic living expert, affectionately known as the "organic soul chef." (Courtesy Madea Allen) Madea Allen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), chef and a holistic living expert, affectionately known as the "organic soul chef." (Courtesy Madea Allen) This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage.As we set our clocks back and turn our heat on, it may be time to get reacquainted with your kitchen. A D.C.-area chef wants you to have a holistic kitchen revival this month and is offering a free class to show you how.Madea Allen is a Doctor of Or...

Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an option

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities,” the government announced on Sunday.“Eliyahu’s statements are not based in reality,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on X.Israel and its military “are operating in accordance with the highest standards of international law to avoid harming innocents,” the prime minister added.A member of the ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, Eliyahu earlier on Sunday claimed in a radio interview that since there were “no non-combatants in Gaza,” using an atomic weapon on the Palestinian enclave was “one of the possibilities.”Eliyahu later sought to rectify his statement, saying it was “clear to all sensible people” that his reference to nuclear weapons had been “metaphorical.”Opposition le...

Police investigating South Boston shooting that left victim with life-threatening injuries

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

Boston police are investigating an early morning shooting in South Boston that left a man hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, police said.Officers responding to a reported shooting on Gavin Way around 1 a.m. found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds.No arrests have been made in connection with 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.

Nice today, cooler overnight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

Hope you all got to enjoy that extra hour of sleep as Daylight Saving Time came to an end overnight. Today, will be another great day to get outside with mild afternoon temperatures. Cooler air works in overnight and is with us tomorrow. A cold front has been to our north and provided us with cloud cover this weekend. It will work across our region today. We stay dry but get some more clouds as it slides through and a shift in our wind direction by later today. We won’t feel the cooler air until tomorrow morning. It’ll be a chilly start in MetroWest. Along the coast there will be a slight breeze and temperatures should stay closer to 40. Tomorrow temperatures will be close to 50/low 50s. More mild Tuesday with some morning showers. Then temperatures drop Wednesday and Thursday into the upper 40s. Scattered showers Thursday.I’ll just leave this note about our sunrise and sunset changes into December for you here…-Meteorologist Melanie Black

Police respond to violent crash in Nubian Square in Boston

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

Police responded to a violent crash in Nubian Square in Boston early Sunday morning.Video from the scene showed a damaged sedan against a utility pole.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Virginia school board elections face a pivotal moment as a cozy corner of democracy turns toxic

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The “crossroads of the Civil War,” as Virginia’s Spotsylvania County calls itself, is once again a cauldron of hostilities, this time minus the muskets.Within range of four devastating battles that laid waste to tens of thousands of lives, 21st century culture wars rage. The stakes hardly compare to such tragic losses, but feelings run fever high.Dirty tricks spill out; political struggles are taken to the extreme.The principal flashpoint: school board meetings. And not just here. A long tradition of doing prosaic but vital work has sunk into chaos and poisonous confrontation across the United States. The lower rungs of democracy are cracking.In Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, the far right is fighting to gain control of more local offices — often school boards — while the left claws back with cries of “fascism.”“Just bananas,” a Spotsylvania School Board candidate with Democratic support says of the local fight over education. “So far out of hand,” agree...

MTO employee struck, critically injured in Hwy. 400 crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

A Ministry of Transportation (MTO) employee is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 400 in the Holland Marsh area.Provincial police say they responded to a crash in the southbound lanes of the highway near Line 5 just before 3 a.m. Sunday.The MTO employee was assisting police in setting up lane closures in the area when they were struck from behind by another vehicle around 7 a.m.The worker was taken to a trauma centre in Toronto with life-threatening injuries.Police say the vehicle that struck the worker remained on scene.

Ship traffic ramps up through the Northwest Passage as Arctic ice retreats

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:21 GMT

MONTREAL — Michael Wenger still remembers the patches of blood red and vivid violet that daub the landscape of the Northwest Passage.“People usually think it’s ice and glaciers and rocks. And then you get there and you see these meadows, with all the different plants,” he said, speaking by phone from Reykjavik, Iceland, where he was attending an Arctic Circle Assembly conference.“It’s very colourful,” said Wenger, CEO of Polar Journal AG, who worked as an expedition guide on a northern cruise vessel in 2016.A growing number of people are now getting to witness those vibrant tundras first-hand. The same climate shifts that affect Arctic flora have also forced a massive retreat in Arctic sea ice — even in the passage, where geography and wind currents freeze the waters for a longer period of the year than in other parts of the Far North.“It’s happening at a crazy rate,” said Bernard Funston, former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission.In step with the melt, more and more sh...