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Police arrest an armed suspect after 8-hour hostage drama at a post office north of Tokyo

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Police ended an eight-hour standoff at a post office north of Tokyo by arresting the armed suspect after two hostages were freed safely in an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital.The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi on Tuesday about an hour after the hospital shooting in which two people were wounded in the nearby city of Toda. Footage on NHK television showed an older man sitting between two police officers in the back seat of a police car that drove past reporters and headed to a local police station. Police said they captured the suspect when they stormed into the building, about an hour after the second of the two postal staff who remained in the building had escaped unhurt. The other hostage had walked out safely nearly two hours earlier, according to NHK reports. Police said they were investigating the hospital and post office attacks together because they could be related. They are also looking into a f...

Colombia y Chile llaman a consulta a sus embajadores en Israel tras devastadores ataques en Gaza

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

(CNN) — Colombia y Chile llamaron a consultas a sus embajadores en Israel debido a los ataques israelíes contra Gaza.“He decidido llamar a consulta a nuestra embajadora en Israel. Si Israel no detiene la masacre del pueblo palestino no podemos estar allá”, dijo el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, en una publicación en X (antes Twitter).El pasado 19 de octubre, Petro se reunió con el embajador de Israel en Colombia, Gali Dagan, para hablar de la situación en Gaza.Gustavo Petro, presidente de Colombia, recibe a embajadores de Palestina e Israel y dice que enviará ayuda humanitaria a GazaPor su parte, el presidente de Chile, Gabriel Boric, dijo que su país llamó a consultas a su embajador en Israel debido a las “violaciones del Derecho Internacional Humanitario en que ha incurrido Israel” en Gaza.“Ante las inaceptables violaciones al Derecho Internacional Humanitario en que ha incurrido Israel en Gaza, el Gobierno de Chile ha resuelto llamar en...

Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson score 19 points apiece as the Knicks beat the Cavaliers 109-91

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Julius Randle had 19 points and 10 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored 19 points and the New York Knicks did not trail in the final three quarters of a 109-91 victory over the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night.Immanuel Quickley added 18 points off the bench and RJ Barrett had 16 as the Knicks won the first half of a home-and-home series. It was the teams’ first meeting since New York eliminated Cleveland in five games in the first round of the 2023 playoffs.New York native Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points in 29 minutes, and Isaac Okoro and Georges Niang had 11 points apiece for the Cavaliers, who have lost three straight and are 0-3 at home. Cleveland is 2-8 against the Knicks since the start of last season.Mitchell, who is averaging team highs of 32.0 points and 4.7 assists, returned to the lineup after sitting out a 125-113 loss to the Pacers with a sore right hamstring Saturday. The four-time All-Star was hurt in the fourth quarter of a 108-105 home l...

Live updates | Deluge of Israeli airstrikes destroy apartments in Gaza refugee camp

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

A deluge of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City demolished apartment buildings, leaving gaping holes where they once stood, while ground troops battled Hamas militants across northern Gaza. Buoyed by the first successful rescue of a captive held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a cease-fire and again vowed to crush the militant group’s ability to govern Gaza or threaten Israel.Though more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes, several hundred thousand remain in the north, where Israeli troops and tanks have reportedly advanced on multiple sides of Gaza City.The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 8,525, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 122 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them civilians slain in the initial Hamas rampage that started t...

Migrant with 3 kids shares story after release from Denver shelter

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver released about 190 migrants from local shelters Tuesday, deactivating the cold weather shelter plan now that the temperatures are warming back up.Carolina Montilla is a Venezuelan mom who migrated here to Denver with her three children, ages 9, 11 and 12."We went through a jungle, we went through a river, we ran out of food. In one country we were robbed,” Montilla said.Montilla said her family made it to Texas where they couldn’t find work and begged to get enough money to come to Denver. FOX31 asked why.“Because we want a future,” she said. “We want to work.”'We don't have anywhere to stay'The future is uncertain today for Montilla and her children.“We don’t have anywhere to stay,” she said.As of Monday, Denver reports it's sheltered and supported 25,801 migrants from the southern border at a cost of more than $29 million, and some 2,170 people were being sheltered. How much you need to make to be ‘middle class’ in Denver The city has recently changed the...

Ballot box destroyed by truck in Aurora

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Suspicions have arisen in Aurora about why a voter ballot box was plowed down by a construction truck just a week before the Nov. 7 election.The box is located at 1585 Kingston near Colfax Avenue. Caught on camera: Truck driver’s dash cam captures intense crash on I-70 Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum told FOX31 the incident is under investigation and provided the Problem Solvers with a video showing what happened.“A dump truck was pulling away from where it was working and happened to run into the box,” Zygielbaum said.Dr. Thomas Mayes is president of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, pastor of the adjacent Living Water Christian Center and at-large candidate for Aurora City Council. Mayes told FOX31 his first reaction to learning the box was struck was suspicion.“I’m taking it personal, because this particular ballot box is at my church, my name is on the front of the church, my name is on the ballot. It looks to me like a form ...

Miami Police officer charged with DUI after being found passed out in car with gun

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

A Miami Police was arrested and was charged with DUI.Joevanih Sauvgere, 31, was arrested and booked into jail Tuesday morning, but has since bonded out. According to an arrest report obtained by 7News, 31-year-old Joevanih Sauvgere was found passed out in a personal vehicle, with a gun on his lap.7News was also told that he was first spotted by a Miami-Dade Schools Police Officer in that vehicle at Northwest 62nd Street and Sixth Avenue.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

The EU at 30: Looking forward and back

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

Dermot Hodson is author of “Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It,” published by Yale University Press.The European Union turns 30 today.The Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force on November 1, 1993, envisioned nothing less than “a new stage in the process of European integration,” which would help end “the division of the European continent.” For all its faults, the EU has honored these aspirations, admitting 16 new members over the last three decades and fostering a spirit of cooperation that no other international organization has matched.But for all its achievements, the EU still struggles to defend the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony symbolized by the circle of stars on its flag.Today, the mood in Brussels is somber, just as it was in 1993, when the EU was established on the edifice of the older European Community. Then, as now, the bloc faced sluggish economic growth, a political agenda partly shaped by right-wing populists, and bloody ...

Egypt’s envoy to Brussels accuses West of pro-Israel bias

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

BRUSSELS — Egypt’s envoy to Brussels slammed the West’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war, accusing it of having a pro-Israel bias that he says is damaging its reputation in the Middle East.In an interview in his Brussels residence, Cairo’s top diplomat in the EU capital, Badr Abdelatty, also stressed his country will not accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from Gaza.“We will not allow the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and to have another Nakba [or “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the mass uprooting of Palestinians in the war over Israel’s creation in 1948] at the expense of the neighboring countries, whether it’s Jordan or Egypt,” Abdelatty told POLITICO.After Hamas killed more than 1,400 people on October 7, Israel launched airstrikes and, recently, ground operations across Gaza, killing more than 8,500 people, including thousands of children, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Israel has rejected calls for a cease-fire and U.S. Preside...

From WWE wrestling to global AI summit: The unlikely rise of Michelle Donelan

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:31 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s tech chief is no stranger to dealing with big egos. She used to promote superstar wrestlers.U.K. Science and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan’s past career as a marketeer for WWE wrestling may stand her in good stead at Bletchley Park on Wednesday, as she hosts representatives from more than 100 tech companies, countries and academic institutions on the first day of a U.K.-hosted summit which aims to grapple with one of the biggest challenges of our time — the rise of artificial intelligence. Working at the fast-paced WWE was “very much like” being at her busy Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Donelan tells POLITICO — somewhat improbably — in an eve-of-summit interview at her sparsely-decorated office on Whitehall.The oddball world of commercial wrestling was also good training for politics. “It was an eye-opener to different personalities, and how to deal with those different personalities,” she says — ideal for “deal...