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Panellists withdraw from New York literature festival over BJP presence

INTERNATIONAL The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is normalising Hindutva in the United States, activists and writers have told Middle East Eye, following revelations that a leader from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be participating at this year’s JLF events in New York City. As of Tuesday morning, at least three panellists, including authors Marie Brenner and Amy Waldman, had reportedly withdrawn from the JLF following calls from activists […]

14 September 2022

International News

Bodies found in unrefrigerated trucks in New York during COVID-19 pandemic

The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness said. The eyewitness saw bodies in a U-Haul van and said two vans and a truck were parked outside the funeral home. ABC News reported about 100 bodies were stored in the vehicles after the owner of the Andrew […]

30 April 2020

International News

NY records 731 new coronavirus deaths

New York state recorded 731 new coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, marking the biggest one-day jump in the outbreak. The state’s death toll since the beginning of the outbreak is now 5,489, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “That’s 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual. There’s a family, there’s a mother, there’s a father, there’s a sister, there’s a brother. So a lot of […]

8 April 2020

International News

U.S. faces ‘really bad’ week as coronavirus deaths spike

The United States is entering what a senior official warned on Sunday would be the “hardest” week of the coronavirus crisis as the death toll mounted, but some saw glimmers of hope from a slight slowing of fatalities in hard-hit New York. New York, the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, reported on Sunday that for the first time in a week, deaths had fallen slightly from the day before. […]

6 April 2020

International News

Trump drops idea of New York lockdown as U.S. death count crosses 2,000

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would issue a travel warning for the hard-hit New York area to limit the spread of the coronavirus, backing off from an earlier suggestion that he might try to cut off the region entirely. “A quarantine will not be necessary,” he said on Twitter. Trump’s announcement came as the U.S. death count crossed 2,100, more than double the level from two days […]

29 March 2020

International News

Attempted ‘terrorist attack’ targets New York commuter hub

A Bangladeshi immigrant with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect in the incident in Times Square subway station near the Port Authority Bus Terminal was identified as Akayed Ullah, 27, the New York Police […]

12 December 2017

International News

Two Muslim NY women subject to hate crimes

Two Muslim women working for authorities in New York suffered hate crimes just 36 hours apart, officials said Monday, following an explosion in such incidents across America since Donald Trump’s election. A uniformed city transit employee was taken to hospital with injuries to her knee and ankle after being pushed down the stairs at Grand Central, the bustling rail hub in the heart of Manhattan, en route to work Monday. […]

6 December 2016

New york

Panellists withdraw from New York literature festival over BJP presence

Bodies found in unrefrigerated trucks in New York during COVID-19 pandemic

NY records 731 new coronavirus deaths

U.S. faces ‘really bad’ week as coronavirus deaths spike

Trump drops idea of New York lockdown as U.S. death count crosses 2,000

Attempted ‘terrorist attack’ targets New York commuter hub

Two Muslim NY women subject to hate crimes

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