Remaking New York City in the wake of climate change

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New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into

Inside America’s atomic state

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Seventy years ago last August, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay released its 4,000kg load over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the sudden loss of weight jolting the US

Race in the US: America’s most persecuted?

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A day after graduating from high school, Renea Gray left the Inyabito Chapter of the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico and headed west to Las Vegas, Nevada. "It was

Albuquerque PD: a case study of police brutality

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Albuquerque, New Mexico - In January 1972, Rito Canales and Antonio Cordova, members of the Chicano youth organisation known as the Black Berets, were killed in a barrage of gunfire

Tensions ratchet up in US immigration battle

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New York City – Like many children of undocumented immigrants, Lupe Martinez has lived a precarious life.

Lupe’s parents migrated to the United States by way of Oaxaca, Mexico, living

Debate swirls over budding marijuana business

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New York City, United States - Standing in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Frank Mills puffs on a thinly rolled marijuana cigarette, exhaling a long thin stream of smoke towards

Native Americans rolling the dice on casinos

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Flagstaff, United States – On the southwestern corner of the Navajo reservation, Twin Arrows Casino Resort towers over the empty Arizona desert, its lurid neon lights drawing travellers from the

Massive Climate March Puts Leaders on Hold

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New York City, United States – More than 300,000 people converged on New York City to attend what organisers called the largest single climate change march in history.

Tens of

Palestinians forced to demolish own homes

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Occupied East Jerusalem - For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose

Teenage Palestinian amputees top Kilimanjaro

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In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body.