LOcals take the lead in catastrophic chennai flood relief efforts
Sheets of rain pierced the cold air. Only a single street lamp and a light from a nearby temple illuminated the pitch black sky. Sewage mixed with flood water and pooled above their ankles. The stench was inescapable. Arjun S.B. glanced at the children pulling fish from the stagnating lake at their feet before motioning for fellow volunteers to push forward into the deepest parts of the Velachery slum. The ambulance sirens faded behind them. They had work to do.
Why Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Islamic State are Trying to One-up Each Other
Since the end of October, terrorist attacks around the world have increased in deadliness and frequency. In the one week period of Nov. 13 to Nov. 20 alone, suicide bombers and mass shooters killed 130 people across Paris, an explosion at a fruit market in Yola, Nigeria killed 32 and wounded 80, and attackers killed 22 civilians and took 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
In Washington Heights on Thursday afternoon, around 30 street vendors and their supporters gathered to protest what they say is unfair treatment by the city.
Demonstrators stood at the intersection of 183rd St. and Broadway across the street from the 34th precinct chanting in Spanish while holding signs with messages like “VENDORS FEED NYC.” Many wore yellow “Vendor Power!” t-shirts and one man on a motorbike served sausage to protesters. The group then marched downtown holding a banner made from hundreds of pink violation slips taped together.