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Australia’s Victoria state withdraws as host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Victoria state has withdrawn as host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games because of a massive increase in the projected cost of staging the multi-sports event.Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday said his government last year agreed to host the next edition of the quadrennial event “but not at any cost.” He said his government had initially budgeted 2.6 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) to stage the Games in five regional cities but recent estimates put the potential cost as high as 7 billion Australian dollars ($4.8 billion). Andrews told a news conference he’d notified Commonwealth Games organizers of his government’s decision to pull out of the hosting contract.“Today is not about finding fault with those cost estimates,” he said, declining to outline the reasons for the cost blowouts. “Frankly, AU$6-AU$7 billion for a 12-day sporting event, we are not doing that — that does not represent value for money, that is all costs an...

Brewers LHP Wade Miley returns to injured list with discomfort in his throwing elbow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers left-handed pitcher Wade Miley has gone back on the injured list due to discomfort in his throwing elbow.The NL Central-leading Brewers made the move Monday, the night before opening a three-game series at Philadelphia. The move is retroactive to Friday.The Brewers will announce a corresponding move Tuesday.Miley has gone 6-2 with a 3.06 ERA in 13 appearances this season despite missing a month of action from mid-May to mid-June with a left lat strain. Miley’s five starts since his return from the injured list had included three scoreless appearances.In his last start, Miley struck out eight and allowed four hits and three walks in six shutout innings as the Brewers defeated the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 on July 9, the day before the All-Star break.The 36-year-old Miley joined the Brewers this offseason on a one-year, $4.5 million contract that included a possible $1.5 million in incentives and a $10 million mutual option for 2024.That followed a 2...

Princess Diana’s iconic black sheep sweater could fetch at least $50,000 at auction

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana is expected to sell for more than $50,000 at auction.The playfully patterned wool jumper featuring a single black sheep amid a pattern of white ones headlines Sotheby’s online Fashion Icons sale in September.The 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer was photographed in the garment at a polo match in June 1981, soon after her engagement to Prince Charles, who was then heir to the British throne.Diana was already becoming a style icon —- and one of the world’s most photographed women — and the moment gave a big boost to designers Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne, who made the sweater for their small knitwear label Warm & Wonderful.A few weeks later, Muir and Osborne received an official letter from Buckingham Palace explaining that Diana had damaged the sweater and asking whether it could be repaired or replaced. The original was returned, showing damage to a sleeve the designers thought might have be...

Is a contract signed by a man who passed away still valid 15 years later?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Their father left them a small apartment complex 15 years ago, but when they recently tried to cancel a contract, he signed they were told they could not. Are the heirs bound by a contract that was signed years ago? It’s why the call came in to Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.In 1966, after fleeing Cuba, Eduardo Urivazo came to Miami, worked hard and bought a small apartment complex.Eduardo Urivazo: “Oh, this is his life. Hard earnings right here. No vacation, just hard work.”In 2008, Eduardo passed away and left the six-unit complex in Miami to his children.He wanted his son, also named Eduardo, to take care of the property.Eduardo Urivazo: “Uh, I am honored that he chose me, but with that it requires responsibility.”One responsibility for Eduardo, keeping the complex profitable.Eduardo Urivazo: “I noticed that the price for the commercial pickup of the trash was getting too expensive.”Once a week, the trash company picks up the garbage....

Driver of Dodge in bad condition after crashing train signal in NW Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

The violent rail road crossing wreck impacted the car and sent the train signal on 125th Street and 32nd Avenue, crashing to the ground in Northwest Miami-dade.No train was involved when the blue Dodge Charger was careened into concrete and steel, Monday evening.Osbel Esquijarosa, a witness and co-worker told 7News, the driver of the vehicle is in bad condition after being airlifted to the Jackson Memorial Hospital. “I didn’t have the time to think, I thought he was killed, he is not doing too good,” said EsquijarosaThe railroad support beam was ripped down and slid to the street. The car was left tilted upward, with two wheels off the ground, its airbags deployed and caused a lot of damage.Esquijarosa had blood on his shirt and hands and said he tried to pull him out of the vehicle after the accident. “With rocks trying to break the window,” said Esquijarosa. “He was coming at least 50-60 mph.”Esquijarosa said he was in the red Honda Civic,...

Ending an epidemic: innovations to eradicate HIV

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher .st0{fill:#EB8A23;} .st1{fill:#FAC617;} .st2{fill:#612368;} .st3{fill:#3792C4;} .st4{fill:#C33727;} Acast Governments around the world have committed to end HIV by 2030. The target is known as the 95-95-95 goals — 95 percent of people living with HIV diagnosed and knowing their status, 95 percent of those linke...

What’s next for Wagner chief Prigozhin’s hydra-headed media empire?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MOSCOW — On a Friday evening after work, Vladimir Yagudayev was halfway through his dinner when he almost choked on his macaroni. His de facto boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had just published an audio message on Telegram threatening to advance on Moscow if Russia’s top military brass was not booted out. “We’d been expecting something to happen, but nothing this brash,” said Yagudayev, a 25-year-old social media manager with blue eyes and a bushy beard, referring to the June 23 mutiny led by the leader of the Wagner mercenary group. “Many of us understood straight away that it would affect us in one way or another,” said Yagudayev, who works at the media holding Patriot, better known as part of what has become known as Prigozhin’s troll farm.Yagudayev and his colleagues weren’t wrong. A week later, a top manager at Patriot, Yevgeny Zubarev, announced in an online video that the group would be “exiting the country’s informational sphere.” The aftermath of Prig...

Spanish election: Drug trafficker links trigger questions for Feijóo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

MADRID — A controversial history of cozy relations between frontrunner Alberto Núñez Feijóo and a notorious drug trafficker burst back into life during Spain’s election contest, threatening to dampen the opposition leader’s campaign for victory ahead of Sunday’s vote. Feijóo’s conservative Popular Party is on track to become the largest group in the July 23 election, if opinion polling proves accurate — an outcome that would herald a sharp change in direction for Spain after Pedro Sánchez’s five years of socialist rule. But during a rally in Madrid on Sunday, far-left candidate Yolanda Díaz brought up the friendship Feijóo struck up with Galician narco-trafficker and money launderer Marcial Dorado during the 1990s and early 2000s.“Feijóo had an intimate friendship with one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world,” said Díaz, who challenged the Popular Party leader to join an upcoming debate to “tell Spaniards about his relationshi...

Italy’s decision on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and beyond

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

André Gattolin is a French senator, who serves as the French Senate’s vice president of Foreign Affairs and EU Affairs. Jianli Yang is the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China and the author of “Its Time for a Values-Based ‘Economic NATO.’”During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Italy in March 2019, the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). And with this memorandum, Italy became the only G7 country to join the BRI — which was seen as a major diplomatic breakthrough by Beijing.Still the subject of ongoing debate within Italy itself, this agreement has faced strong criticism from both the United States and the European Union, as many Western countries view the BRI as a Trojan horse for Beijing’s geopolitical interests. And now, the memorandum is to be automatically renewed in March 2024, unless Italy formally requests to withdraw from it three months in advance.Along these lines, Prime Minister Gior...

Investigation underway after police officer shot in New Bedford

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:04 GMT

A New Bedford police officer was shot in New Bedford on Monday night, prompting a large police response, officials said.The New Bedford police detective sustained an injury from a gunshot in the area of Rivet and Orchard streets around 8:45 p.m. He is receiving medical treatement and the injury is not considered to be life-threatening, according to New Bedford police.Sources tell 7’s Steve Cooper that two other people were also injured as a result of the shooting.State police say they are assisting New Bedford police with a shots fired incident in that area. https://twitter.com/scooperon7/status/1681114288054738946No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.