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Days of violent riots in the Indian capital city of Delhi and in the adjoining state of Haryana left 16 people dead and caused nearly $500,000 in losses for area industries. Nearly 10,000 Indian troops and paramilitary force members were deployed by the federal government to quell the uprising, which is still ongoing in parts of the region.
This year’s El Niño, which forecasters are calling one of the strongest ever, may have passed its peak strength, but changes in global weather will continue to wreak havoc on food supplies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America for months to come, according to the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Severe droughts and floods triggered by this year’s El Niño have already had a devastating effect on food security throughout the world, leaving some 100 million people with food and water shortages.
How Women Enforce ISIS’ Abhorrent Laws Against Women
The FBI haschargedthe wife of an ISIS leader with holding an American aid worker captive and subjecting her to sexual slavery. Kayla Mueller waskilledin an airstrike in Syria last February after being held hostage since she was abducted in 2013.
Doctors Without Borders Confirms Its Hospital In Syria Was Hit By Airstrikes
A statement released Tuesday by Doctors Without Borders confirms that a hospital in the Dara’a Governorate in Syria was hit by an airstrike on February 5. The airstrike on the hospital killed three people and wounded an additional six, according to the statement.
Palestinians are calling for a boycott of the web-based room-sharing platform Airbnb, blasting the company for allowing postings from residents of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The United States plans to increase the number of refugees admitted from Central America fleeing El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala — the three “Northern Triangle” countries that are currently embroiled in increasing gang violence and extreme poverty — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerryannounced on Wednesday.
As France suffers the fallout from the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, the far-right National Front party emerged as frontrunners in the regional election primaries.
“I believe the incredible results of the National Front amounts to the revolt of the people against the elite,” Leader Marine Le Pen said Monday on French radio. “The French people have had enough of being treated like a herd of sheep.”
The buzzword of the moment at the Paris climate talks is “ratchet.” Will the nations of the world agree to ratchet up their carbon pollution reduction commitments every five to 10 years — as will be required if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming?
The ratcheting could be thought of like episodes in a long-running movie series.
