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Back-to-back-to-back homers ignite SF Giants offense in comeback win over Rockies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Joey Bart, coming in cold from four months in Sacramento, was posed a difficult question before Friday night’s series opener against the Rockies. He’s seen this team at its best and its worst, so what were his observations with the team riding a six-game losing streak?“I’ve witnessed it over the last couple years. I know what it takes” to turn it around, he said. “Sometimes it’s just something different. That’s not saying me. It’s just anything. Someone gets a big hit. Something happens. Then, bam, we’re off to the races.”For five innings against journeyman lefty Ty Blach, a former Giant making his first start at Oracle Park in an opposing uniform, it was more of the same. They put a few runners on, failed to bring them home in the usual ways, and had Blach gunning for a career-high in strikeouts with six through four frames.Something happened. And, bam, they were off to the races. Losing streak over: 9-8.Ignited by back-to-back-to...

Josh Naylor drives in 3 runs as Guardians hold on for 6-3 win over Angels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Josh Naylor drove in three runs, Logan Allen picked up his first victory in four starts and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3 on Friday night.It was Naylor’s 11th game with at least three RBIs this season. Bo Naylor also drove in a run, marking the seventh time this season the Naylor brothers have had an RBI in the same game.Josh Naylor is 5 for 17 with five RBIs in five games since coming off the injured list after missing a month due to a right oblique strain.“Obviously, he feels good about himself, as he should,” manager Terry Francona said. “I think you can see that he didn’t just pick up a bat the other day. He’s been working out for a while.”Allen (7-7) allowed one run on three hits and struck out six to get his first victory since Aug. 15. The left-hander is fourth among AL rookies in strikeouts (113) and fifth in wins.Emmanuel Clase retired the side in the ninth for his majors-leading 39th save.The Guardians remained 6 1/2 games b...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Group of 20 has agreed to make the African Union a permanent member

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Group of 20 has agreed to make the African Union a permanent member.Source

Wilmer Flores draws bases-loaded walk for go-ahead run, Giants come back twice to beat Rockies 9-8

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wilmer Flores drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth from Evan Justice to bring home the go-ahead run after Mike Yastrzemski hit a tying RBI single that inning, and the San Francisco Giants came back twice to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-8 on Friday night.Justice relieved Jake Bird (2-3) and hit Blake Sabol with a pitch to load the bases. After Luis Matos struck out looking, Flores worked the count full and Justice missed his spot — then did so again in walking LaMonte Wade Jr. next.That insurance run mattered as Camilo Doval surrendered Nolan Jones’ two-out double before finishing for his 36th save. John Brebbia (3-0) pitched the eighth for the win.Elias Díaz hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh and Nolan Jones also connected for Colorado. Sabol hit a two-run shot in the bottom of the seventh to keep San Francisco close.The Giants (71-70) snapped a six-game losing streak to avoid falling below 500 for the first time since beginning the day 29-30 o...

With sexism in Spanish soccer being scrutinized, women players strike for higher league wages

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — First, Spain’s Women’s World Cup winners said they would no longer play for their country as they fight sexism in the nation’s soccer federation. Now, Spain’s women’s league players are on strike and calling for what they call a dignified minimum wage.The Liga F — Spain’s women’s league — was supposed to kick off its second season on Friday, but instead its players are striking for the first two rounds of games.The strike comes with the nation immersed in the scandal caused by soccer federation president Luis Rubiales when he kissed a Spain player on the lips without her consent during the Aug. 20 awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia after Spain had beaten England in the final.Rubiales’ conduct caused outrage in Spain. It also has drawn attention away from the greatest achievement in the history of Spanish women’s soccer, which has undergone spectacular growth over the last decade but still is fighting for a pay raise that, if granted, would...

Coalition of world leaders calls for tripling renewable energy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

Leaders from the EU, Africa and the Caribbean have issued a united demand for the world to set targets that would transform the global energy system before a child born today is halfway through primary school.In an article published Saturday on POLITICO’s website, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, President of Kenya William Ruto and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley called for the world to set “a common horizon,” namely global goals to triple renewable energy capacity and double annual savings of energy use by 2030.They issued their statement in the wake of a dire U.N. report on the state of global climate efforts released Friday. Sultan Al-Jaber, the United Arab Emirates official leading the COP28 U.N. climate talks that start in November, was also a signatory on the article.“COP28 will offer the world a critical chance to course-correct on climate change,” they said in the article.The leaders have previously made these demands individually, but they said the...

Blocked radio transmission led to June close call between planes at San Diego International Airport: FAA

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Investigators said Thursday that a failed radio transmission and a distracted air traffic controller led to a close call between a Southwest Airlines jet and a smaller plane waiting to take off from San Diego in June.Both planes had been cleared to use the same runway. The National Transportation Safety Board said a controller told the crew of SkyWest plane to exit the runway, then directed the Southwest pilots to cut short their landing approach and instead circle around the airport.The call to the Southwest plane didn't go through, however — likely because the controller and the pilots were talking at the same time and their transmissions canceled each other, the NTSB said.After that, according to the NTSB, audio recorded by LiveATC captured a Southwest pilot saying, “Ah, is that an airplane on the runway?" The SkyWest crew said they heard that while they were moving to leave the runway. San Diego International Airport warns travelers about upcoming I-5 closure The ...

Japan’s foreign minister to visit war-torn Ukraine with business leaders to discuss reconstruction

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, accompanied by a number of business leaders, is visiting Ukraine on Saturday for talks with his counterpart to show support for the war-torn country and emphasize his country’s backing of sanctions against Russia, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement.Hayashi, who had been on a tour of the Middle East and Poland earlier this week, will meet with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv. This is his first visit since the war began over a year ago. His visit comes six months after Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s trip to Ukraine.Hayashi is also set to visit Bucha, one of the hardest-hit towns on the outskirts of Kyiv, said a Japanese foreign ministry official who requested anonymity, saying he is not allowed to speak to the media on the record.He also said Hayashi will convey Japan’s determination to support Ukraine’s economic recovery and reconstruction from the damages of war “from ...

Trudeau arrives at G20 Summit as most powerful countries focus on Global South

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

NEW DELHI — The G20 has kicked off in New Delhi, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arriving alongside other leaders from the world’s richest and powerful countries. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wants to make this summit about the Global South, also welcomed the African Union as its newest permanent member.The European Union is the only other regional bloc that holds permanent membership.Trudeau will spend most of the day sitting in sessions with the other leaders, with the first one focused on “One Earth.”He will also meet with World Bank President Ajay Banga and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the summit.Later tonight Trudeau will attend the G20 leaders’ dinner hosted by Modi.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 9, 2023. The Canadian Press

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:12:32 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The group of the world’s 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the global stage.U.S. President Joe Biden called last year for the AU’s permanent membership in the G20, saying it’s been “a long time in coming.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the bloc was invited to join during the G20 summit his country is hosting this week. The African Union has advocated for full membership for seven years, spokesperson Ebba Kalondo said. Until now, South Africa was the bloc’s only G20 member.Here’s a look at the AU and what its membership represents in a world where Africa is central to discussions about climate change, food security, migration and other issues.WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR AFRICA?Permanent G20 membership signals the rise of a continent whose young population of 1.3 billion is set to double by 2050 and make ...