A Country in Flames
Complacency and Government Failures Fueled India’s COVID Disaster
India’s health care system and hospitals are on the verge of collapse and crematoriums are overloaded. The country got through the first wave of the coronavirus relatively unscathed, but the second has been a catastrophe, the product of inconceivable mistakes by the government.
By Laura Höflinger and Adnan Bhat in Delhi
In a parking lot in Delhi, dozens of shrouded corpses lay in rest in the open. Workers have piled wood into pyres, and relatives in white protective suits stand next to the dead. They wait until they are allowed to light the wood for their deceased, a Hindu ritual to free the soul from the perishable body. Sometimes, the silence is interrupted by a sob or a scream. Otherwise, the only thing you hear is the crackling of the fires and the sirens of ambulances.
Lalan Kumar, a 52-year-old with strong hands and tired eyes, stands off to the side. He has driven an ambulance for 10 years, but he says he has never seen as many dead people as he has in the past few days. "I took 22 bodies to the crematorium today,” he says. "But there are at least a dozen more waiting at the hospital where I came from.”
Seven killed as security forces open fire on protesters in Myanmar
Security forces in Myanmar have opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days, killing seven people, media reported.
The protests, after a spell of dwindling crowds and what appeared to be more restraint by the security forces, were coordinated with demonstrations in Burmese communities around the world to mark what organisers called “the global Myanmar spring revolution”.
“Shake the world with the voice of Myanmar people’s unity,” the organisers said in a statement.
The climate crisis could be behind French vineyard devastation as April frosts loom
hen Emilie Faucheron and her husband took over her father's vineyard in southern France in 2014, she knew that the climate crisis in this sun-soaked region could one day upend their business.
But she didn't expect that day to come so soon – or to be so cold.
Last month, France saw record temperatures for March. Faucheron sensed spring was just around the corner, and so did her grapevines, which began to grow early.
Victims renew calls for justice as El Mozote trial moves ahead
Expert testimony delivered in El Salvador this week has revealed significant new details about what many consider to be the most brutal massacre of the country’s 12-year civil war decades ago.
Victims, experts and lawyers say the five days of hearings in the El Mozote trial uncovered new information about the extent of the United States’s knowledge of the 1981 massacre of nearly 1,000 civilians by US-trained Salvadoran forces, as well as the Salvadoran chain of command.
Manchester United fans mount protest against US owners ahead of Liverpool game
Updated 1528 GMT (2328 HKT) May 2, 2021
Hundreds of Manchester United fans, protesting against the club's US owners, invaded the pitch at Old Trafford stadium on Sunday -- in what the Premier League described as a "security breach" -- ahead of the game against Liverpool.
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Images of destruction after border clashes
The death toll from recent clashes at a disputed Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border has risen to 46, with hundreds of people injured and dozens of homes destroyed, officials say.
More than 100 properties - including schools, shops, border checkpoints and a police station - were burned down or vandalised in some of the worst fighting the region has seen in years, the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
Images captured by the BBC show the extent of the destruction, with homes blackened by fire, roofs collapsed and some buildings reduced to rubble.
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