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Lionel Messi remains a doubtful starter for Argentina. Neymar under fire in Brazil

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Lionel Messi’s involvement in a 1-0 win over Paraguay last week doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be fit for Argentina’s next game in World Cup qualifying against Peru. Messi played most of the second half against Paraguay last Thursday despite struggling with muscular pains in the weeks leading up to the game.But there’s no certainty he’ll play against Peru on Tuesday despite practicing with the squad.Meanwhile in Brazil, Neymar is under fire for his lackluster performance in a 1-1 draw against Venezuela last week that ended with some fans throwing popcorn at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiabá. He will have a tough challenge at Uruguay to show he is back in form.The next World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada is expanding to a 48-team format, meaning direct entry to the top six teams in South America. The seventh-place team will contest an intercontinental playoff for a berth.World Cup winner Argentina leads continental qualifying with 9 points, follo...

Cardinals can’t close again, outscored 20-0 after halftime in loss at Rams

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The second half has become a problem for the Arizona Cardinals.After surprising the NFL with their competitive play through the first three weeks of the season, the overhauled Cardinals are now struggling to stay in games after halftime, with it happening again in their 26-9 loss at the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.“Nobody’s coming to save us,” defensive end Jonathan Ledbetter said. “We know that. We got to save ourselves. We got to play football how we know how to play football.”The Cardinals (1-4) were outscored 20-0 in the third and fourth quarters. In their past three losses, at San Francisco, against Cincinnati and now at Los Angeles, they have been outscored 51-12 in the second half.This defeat was all the more frustrating because the Cardinals had played well in the first half. They ran for 103 yards to the Rams’ 5. They protected quarterback Joshua Dobbs, allowing him to distribute passes to six receivers.What they had not done was put the ball in the ...

Rally planned to protest Denver mayor's policy on homelessness

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- On Monday, Housekeys Action Network Denver will hold a rally outside the Denver City and County building, calling on Mayor Mike Johnston to keep promises they said he's broken on his homeless policies.HAND has been sharing a flyer that flat-out calls Johnston's "House 1000" initiative a scam. Denver announces micro-community location, nixes other proposed site House 1000 is the mayor's goal of getting 1,000 people who are unhoused into homes and in micro-communities by the end of the year.V Reeves with HAND said the mayor's promises of solving the issue of homelessness have lacked accountability."We want him, at this point, just to follow his own encampment policy," Reeves said. "We're not asking for more than that. We're asking for accountability to his own words when it comes to how he's going to decide when to sweep and carry out a sweep."The mayor's office provided a statement to FOX31 on this planned rally saying he remains committed to his goal of housing 10...

Photos: 3 moose roam Steamboat Springs neighborhood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A trio of moose were seen roaming a neighborhood in Steamboat Springs Sunday afternoon.A viewer told FOX31 that she was on her way out the door to go grocery shopping, and when she opened the door the moose were there to greet her. Sick bear euthanized after napping in Steamboat Springs yard "I was about to go out to grocery shop and saw them as soon as I opened my door, they were standing right there!" Kassie Heiner told FOX31 in an email.She said there were three moose: a young male, a young female and a mother."I could tell she was protecting them," Heiner wrote. "Anytime they moved she was close by watching around her."She said she waited for about an hour until they moved across the road to leave.

Home from Israel: South Florida man who boarded chartered flight mourns friend killed in Hamas attack

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

A South Florida man from Israel said he is grateful to be back home after he received help to escape the war,Cellphone video captured Ori David Meyer as he greeted his girlfriend, moments after he landed at Miami International Airport, earlier this weekend.“It was very hard to leave the country. I’m lucky Nicole and her team helped me go out,” he said.Nicole spoke with 7News last week after she raised money and chartered a flight for Meyer and 154 others who were stranded in Israel after Hamas’ surprise attack out of Gaza.“You all the time hear bombings, you all the time hear sirens,” said Meyer.Tragically, one of Meyer’s closest friends, Rachel, was among those killed at the Tribe of Nova Music Festival.“The day before I left, I was in a funeral for my best friend Rachel,” he said. “She’s an angel, and it’s hard because we’ve been in a funeral, and we you see another funeral for another guy.”Meyer i...

Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.With more than 97% of the votes counted, electoral officials said Noboa had 52.1%, compared to 47.9% for Luisa González, a leftist lawyer and ally of exiled former President Rafael Correa. González conceded defeat during a speech before supporters in which she also urged Noboa to fulfill his campaign promises.Noboa, 35, will lead the South American country during a period that drug trafficking-related violence has left Ecuadorians wondering when, not if, they will be victims. Their uneasiness has prompted them to continuously watch their backs and limit how often they leave home.After results showed him victorious, Noboa thanked Ecuadorians for believing in “a new political project, a young political project, an improbable political project.”He s...

Palestinians scramble to find food, safety and water as Israeli ground invasion looms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than a million people have fled their homes in the besieged Gaza Strip in the past week as water supplies dwindle and hospitals warn they are on the verge of collapse, while the enclave’s population waits for an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly attack.Israeli forces, supported by a growing deployment of U.S. warships in the region and the call-up of some 360,000 reservists, positioned themselves along Gaza’s border and drilled for what Israel said would be a broad campaign to dismantle the militant group. Israel said it has already struck dozens of military targets, including command centers and rocket launchers, and also killed Hamas commanders.But even so, a week of blistering airstrikes that have demolished entire neighborhoods but failed to stem militant rocket fire into Israel. And Israeli officials have given no timetable for a ground incursion that aid groups warn could hasten a humanitaria...

Colorado train derails, spilling train cars and coal onto a highway and trapping a semi-truck driver

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A train derailment and bridge collapse Sunday spewed coal and mangled train cars across a highway near Pueblo, Colorado, trapping a semi-truck driver beneath the wreckage, the Colorado State Patrol said. Efforts were underway to rescue the truck driver, state patrol spokesperson Gary Cutler said, although police did not immediately know the driver’s condition or if other drivers were involved.The National Transportation Safety Board is sending investigators to the site about 114 miles (183 km) south of Denver.The state patrol and Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office posted photos and videos showing a partially collapsed bridge over the interstate with the semi-truck caught beneath. The images also show a pileup of train cars, train wheels scattered across the scene and loads of coal covering a portion of the highway. It was unclear when the bridge collapsed, Cutler said. Officials were directing drivers to avoid the area coal and train cars were removed fr...

Leaders from emerging economies are visiting China for the ‘Belt and Road’ forum

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — A stream of leaders of emerging market countries are arriving in Beijing for a meeting organized by the Chinese government that will mark the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative.Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed landed in Beijing on Monday, following Chilean President Gabriel Boric and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday night. Under the initiative, a signature policy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese companies have built ports, roads, railways, power plants around the world in a bid to boost trade and economic growth. But the massive Chinese development loans that funded the projects have also burdened some poorer countries with heavy debts.Others leaders from Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Mideast will attend the Belt and Road Forum, whose main day is on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend, as are representatives of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.The Associated Press

Candlelight vigil held in Toronto to honour lives lost in Israel and Gaza

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:11:34 GMT

Members of the Jewish community gathered for a vigil in downtown Toronto on Sunday night to honour the lives lost in Israel.Dozens of mourners gathered at Matt Cohen Park near Bloor Street West and Spadina Road for the candlelight vigil, sharing stories and listening to music while remembering the men, women and children killed in the attacks.Those at the rally also called for the safe release of hostages being held, an end to the bombings in the Gaza Strip, and they want the Canadian government to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.“You cannot bring back dead people, you cannot bring back the murdered by murdering more people – we want to say that loud and clear, that a ceasefire must happen now,” said Daniel Roth, one of those present at the vigil.“I think that people have drawn lines between Israelis and Palestinians and I think what we need to do is draw lines between those who are for life and for humanity and those who are against it, those w...